Library Guides: Business Faculty Resources and OER: Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER)

Full Courses

Saylor Academy
Saylor Academy Provides full-length open courses developed using a variety of original and third-party content. (See licensing note below)
Saylor Academy - Licensing and Reuse
The licensing for Saylor Academy is complicated and you may not be able to legally assign a full course to students. It can be a good way to locate texts, cases, sample homework questions, and videos by course topic.
Academic Earth
An aggregator of open courses from around the web, many from the MIT Open Courseware program
SBA Learning Center
The Small Business Administration offers free, concise, online courses on planning, opening, managing, and marketing a business.

Cases and Case Studies

MIT Sloan Learning Edge
A variety of cases on multiple business topics. Register as an educator to access Teaching Notes
Ivey Complimentary Cases
"Ivey is renowned for its Case-Method of Learning and is a top publisher of business cases worldwide (second only to Harvard). We are pleased to make the following Ivey cases available to secondary school teachers for use in their classes free of charge."
Daniel's Fund Cases
The Case Bank is an online library of simple, straightforward business cases focused on principle-based ethics.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Find ethics case studies on bribery, sourcing, intellectual property, downsizing, and other topics in business ethics, corporate governance, and ethical leadership.
University of British Columbia Open Cases
Interdisciplinary, open educational resource with case studies

Books

Edward Elgar Open Access
A small collection of ebooks, openly accessibly from leading business publisher Edward Elgar.

Controlled Digital Lending Books

OpenLibrary
A collection of nearly 2 Million digital copies of books available for limited checkout. Includes all subjects and time periods.

OpenLibrary FAQ

What is this?
The founders of Internet Archive have created a Controlled Digital Lending repository of print books so that patrons may access them remotely.

What is Controlled Digital Lending (CDL)?
Controlled Digital Lending digitizes a copy of a book owned in print. Circulation control is used so that only the print copy or the digital copy is checked out to one person, at one time. The digital copy has security in place so that is cannot be reproduced (printed, downloaded, etc.) and the file destructs fully at the end of the checkout period.

Is this legal?
While Internet Archive is in the midst of ongoing litigation with multiple commercial publishers, the belief is that the digital rights management used allows them to meet the legal concepts outlined in the first sale doctrine and they are not violating copyright. More than 80 public and academic libraries now participate in some form of CDL. The concept has not yet fully been tested in court.

Videos and Streaming Media

Kahn Academy
Official YouTube playlist for Khan Academy videos related to Economics and Finance
Crash Course: Business Entrepreneurship
Crash Course provides simple, college level introductions to a variety of topics. Videos tend to be 10-15 minutes long.
Netflix
Netflix allows educational use of some documentary material. A Netflix account holder must access the material for screening.

Simulations and Other Alternative Materials

MIT Sloan Learning Edge
Open access Management Simulation Games. Register as an educator to access Teaching Videos and Support Forums
globalEDGE Exercises and Simulations
From Michigan State University. Open simulations with a particular focus on international business and cultural awareness