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This guide can help you find Computer Science / Information Technology materials from various OER providers.

Please visit the Open Educational Resources Subject Guide to learn more about the following:

General OER providers
Finding and evaluating OER
Licensing
Attribution

Helpful Websites

Cometdocs
A free online document management system for sharing, converting, and storing files.
Coursera - Computer Science
An online collection of computer science courses, including many that are free.
GitHub
A large collection of free programming eBooks.
Microsoft Imagine
Download Microsoft software for free.
SourceForge
A large collection of free open source software.
w3schools.com
A web development portal with examples, tutorials, and quizzes in several web programming languages.
Zamzar
A free online tool that converts a wide variety of file formats.

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Open Educational Textbooks

"Introduction to Python Programming" provides a comprehensive foundation in programming concepts and skills, and is aligned to the scope of most introductory courses. A wide array of scenarios, contexts, and problems reflect programming applications in many disciplines and careers. The offering is suitable for a diverse learner audience, including those pursuing computer science, business, science, social science, statistics, data science, and related areas of study and employment.

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Licensing: CC BY 4.0

Mastering Cybersecurity Policy: Analysis and Implementation

Textbook for Mastering Cybersecurity Policy: Analysis and Implementation.

Written by:

Licensing: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

Cyberattacks and Cybersecurity

Cyberspace touches practically everything and everyone when many everyday communications depend on information communication technologies. This new wave of connectivity is going beyond tablets and laptops; to connected cars and buildings; TVs and game consoles; and smart meters and traffic control. As we are critically dependent on cyberspace, it is inherently insecure and there will always be attempts to exploit weaknesses to launch cyberattacks.

Written by: Christina Liu

Licensing:This is a BookBoon publication and you have to provide your email address to access it. The book is free for students, but all others only get it free for 30 days and it requires a monthly subscription after that

Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice

"Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice" is an open-source eBook that explains the main principles of Computer Networking and the key protocols that are used on the Internet.

Written by: Bonaventure, Olivier

Licensing: CC BY 4.0

Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the Cyber Domain - Second Edition

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are an integral part of the US national critical infrastructure. They must be protected from hostile intent or use to the same level as any other military or commercial asset involved in US national security. However, from the Spratly Islands to Djibouti to heartland America, the expanding Chinese Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS / Drone) industry has outpaced the US technologically and numerically on all fronts.

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Licensing: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Subject OER Collections

Merlot
MERLOT is a collection of online resources curated by a community of faculty, staff, and students of higher education. This subset of the MERLOT collection features openly licensed textbooks for use by students and faculty. MERLOT allows its users to rate materials and comment on specific resources.
BC Campus Open Educational
October 16, 2012 B.C. Open Textbook Project was created. The goal of the project was to make higher education more accessible by reducing student cost through the use of openly licensed textbooks. BCcampus was tasked with co-ordination of the project because of our 10-year experience funding open educational resources (OER) through the Online Program Development Fund.
Open Textbook Library
Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution. Many have been reviewed by faculty from Open Textbook Network member institutions.

Open Courses

edX "EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from the world’s best universities. Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, UTx and many other universities. Topics include biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, electronics, engineering, food and nutrition, history, humanities, law, literature, math, medicine, music, philosophy, physics, science, statistics and more. EdX is a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT."
MIT OpenCourseWare MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. This is a project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Academic Earth Academic Earth has gathered together links to more than 750 free online courses from top universities.
National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a repository of online courses including High School, Advanced Placement, and College level courses. This is an Open Educational Resources project of the Monterey Institute of Technology and Education supported by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Saylor Academy Saylor provides free online asynchronous college level courses with exams.
Open Culture Open Culture was founded in 2006. Find free online courses, textbooks, ebooks, audio books, movies, language lessons and more searched from the internet and curated all together in one location for easy access.
Khan Academy Widely popular, Khan Academy started in 2004 providing Math and Science tutorials and has expanded to include open educational resources for other subjects as well.
OpenLearn-The Open University "The Open University provides high-quality distance learning for all....The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). "
Open Course Library "The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts."
Open Courseware Consortium "The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education. "
Udacity
OEDb-Open Education Database
Class Central
Stanford Online Open courses and resources from Stanford University
Open Yale Courses
Coursera