Access to open educational resources (OERs), including access to open textbooks, is critical to supporting students and lecturers during remote online learning.
What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?
Open Educational Resources are any type of teaching and learning material that are in the public domain or have been released under an open licence. At UCT, there is significant support for OERs from the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT).
Find Open Textbooks
Access over 80 million open books from various subject disciplines
A comprehensive list of over 80 million open resources has been compiled, consisting of subjects across the different disciplines. These free scholarly resources can be read online or downloaded to read offline, on various mobile devices.
For more information regarding Open Educational Resources at UCT Libraries refer to the following link.