Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment.
BCcampus offers a wide variety of business textbooks that are reviewed by faculty, with some including supplementary material. They also offer a collection of textbooks that are accessible.
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All books listed in DOAB are freely accessible and therefore free to read, but this does not mean readers are free to do anything they like with these books. The usage rights of the books in DOAB are determined by the license.
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This site offers a collection of open Journals. Most are available for download as PDF or EPUB.
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OER Commons is a single search source that pulls OER resources from a variety of existing collections.
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This site offers a collection of open textbooks. Most are available for download as PDF or EPUB.
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Fair Observer is an independent, non-profit media organization that engages in citizen journalism and civic education. They produce a unique 360 series that delves deep into the issues. It places a topic in context and then elicits many views on it. They also publish a monthly e-publication on world affairs “Fair Observer”. Fair observer digital media platform has content on issues such as environmental challenges or scientific innovations, economic trends or political developments, humanitarian crises or social movements.
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The ICSSR Data Service hosts a comprehensive set of statistical datasets in social sciences generated and contributed by MoSPI, New Delhi. The ICSSR Data Service is set up with an aim to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who are heavily relying on high-quality social and economic data for their research. The platform provides single-point access to a wide range of primary datasets including datasets generated by large-scale government surveys i.e. ASI and NSS that provides unit-level data as well as qualitative studies. All datasets documentation and resources are freely available through this platform after user registration.
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India Data Portal is a state-of-the-art platform re-engineered to revolutionize data accessibility, analysis, and visualisation. It holds higher spatial granular data beyond the village level, sourced from the Government of India and its ministries, departments, and regulatory bodies. There are 150 datasets with more than 5000 indicators categorised across 25 diverse domains, including – economy, socio- economic, finance, financial inclusion, elections, climate and weather, commerce, crime, education, food and agriculture, forestry and wildlife, government schemes, health, nutrition, rural development, union budget, and various others.
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This is a free self-paced course for those interested in pursuing their MBA (or really anyone who might want to learn more about leadership). In order to earn the certificate, you will have to pay to take the exam.
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A collection of previously taught graduate and undergraduate courses from MIT that have free resources available online including lecture notes and videos, textbooks, and class assignment and project examples.
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National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources which is not just a repository with search/browse facilities but provides a host of services for the learner community. Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find the right resource with least effort and in minimum time.
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OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. OECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).
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This site includes 150 free courses relating to business to further education development. Instructions for how to take the courses for free are included on the website.
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This site has many different courses relating to business that are free to take. Each listing details the level of difficulty for the course, the time it takes to complete the course, and when the course was uploaded to the site.
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