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Open Educational Resources: English Language Bridging Programs

A guide to Open Educational Resources (OER) - discover, adopt, adapt, or author free shareable educational content.

Example OER for English Language Bridging Programs

OER collections which provide English Language Bridging Programs eTexts and eBooks include:

See the following OER Textbooks as examples (we also welcome your suggestions)

Title Author Updated Source License
Academic Success Hargreaves, Bartlett, Derrington et al. 2021 USQ Pressbooks CC BY-NC-SA
Academic Writing Skills Williamson 2021 UQ Pressbooks CC BY-NC-SA
Advanced Academic Grammar for ESL students Al Haider 2021 Open Textbook Library CC BY
Synthesis: Integrated Writing Skills for Advanced Students of ESOL Krause 2022 Open Oregon Educational Resources CC BY-NC-SA
Transition with Purpose: Pathways from English Language to Academic Study Miller and Greenhoe 2018 Open Textbook Library CC BY-NC
Write Here, Right Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research Tucker and Chafe 2018 Open Textbook Library CC BY

 

 

 

Australian content

The Open Educational Resources Collective Publishing Workflow has a number of collections under its 'Initiate' tab.  You can also look at our lists below, or go to Find Open Textbooks to Use or Adapt and start exploring!

Collection

Details

ANU ePRESS

Australia’s first OA university press publishing peer reviewed books and textbooks on a range of subject areas including Asia and Pacific studies, Australian politics, humanities, arts, Indigenous studies and science.

CDU Open Book Publishing
Charles Darwin University’s Pressbooks library.
JCU Open eBooks
James Cook University’s Pressbooks library.
La Trobe eBureau
La Trobe University’s La Trobe eBureau publishes high-quality, peer reviewed open textbooks that support online and blended learning.
Open Textbooks @ UQ
The University of Queensland’s Pressbooks library.
QUT eBooks
Queensland University of Technology’s Pressbooks library.
RMIT Open Educational Resources

RMIT Library’s collection of OER images and open textbooks, including some created by RMIT University academics. See also the RMIT Open Press platform.

Sydney Open Library (SOL)

Sydney Open Library hosts open access academic books and textbooks published by Sydney University Press on subjects across the humanities and social sciences.

University of Adelaide Press (2009-2018)

Although this press stopped operating in 2018, their collection of open access books is still available for download from their website.

USQ Open Texts
USQ Library has curated 11 collections of open textbooks including their own OER publications.  Browse by subject area or search by keyword
UTS ePRESS

Run by the Library of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), the UTS ePRESS has published open access books and peer reviewed, Diamond Open Access Journals (free to authors and free to readers) journals on a range of topics.

Western Open Textbooks

Western Sydney University’s Pressbooks library.

Newcastle Open Textbooks: coming soon ...