Open Educational Resources

Emory University is home to a growing number of Open Education advocates. This page features several of their open textbooks.

Matthew Sag, Professor of Law, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School, is an advocate for Open Education. Dr. Sag created Extended Readings on Copyright out of necessity: a textbook suiting his needs did not exist. 

Extended Readings on Copyright is a free Copyright Law textbook released under a Creative Commons license. The book is now over 1000 pages long and covers everything you need for an advanced course on American Copyright law. It is designed to be easy to use, so you can download it in Microsoft Word format or as a PDF.

Mathematics Professor Tien Chih considers this text a 'labor of love': "I decided to teach this class in an inquiry manner, incorporating the ideas I’ve written about, and through the semester wrote a set of inquiry learning materials, which serves of the basis of the document you are currently reading."

This is an inquiry-learning based textbook on introductory linear optimization. Linear optimization, or linear programming, is a common but not ubiquitous course at the undergraduate level, with somewhat divergent goals and approaches. 

This book can be used as a stand-alone text or supplement another text, with some adjustment. The content of this course is licensed by Creative Commons.

"This text is dedicated to every student and instructor of Mathematics who believe that modern times call for modern forms of instruction."

German Grammar is a series of online tutorials created by Emory University students under the direction of Professor Max Hiram.

ActivEpi Web, is an electronic textbook for teaching epidemiology, available free on-line. It was created by Professor of Epidemiology David G. Kleinbaum.