Open Educational Resources by School: Psychology

You can access course materials at no cost to the student or to you the instructor. Students work at their own pace, and can review modules before exams. OLI's learning platform gives the instructor targeted feedback as the class progresses, which helps provide a red flag when students need more practice or if they are mastering a topic. Instructors can help design and review course materials with the open learning initiative. Instructors can take a tour before signing up to use the platform.

MIT Open Courseware has 29 Undergraduate courses in Psychology and 18 graduate courses. Course formats vary, but some include, lecture videos, activities, assignments, discussions, and online resources for further study.

This resource provides course learning outcomes,readings, lectures, and web media to 7 completed core programs in psychology and 10 elective courses in psychology. Some of the courses listed include: Life Span Development. Abnormal Behavior, and Theories of Personality.You can browse through the materials and pick and choose what you want to apply to your course.

The Open University (OU) Learning Space has, 10 units in Psychology to explore. The units have user ratings, time it takes to complete the unit, and level of use indicated on the page. In order to use the complete courses and users need to sign in to keep track of courses. This site offers learning tools, such as knowledge maps and journals and students can print materials to view them.

This psychology textbook is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course.

This site provides access to several psychology textbooks. Those titles reviewed include: Internet for Psychology, Introduction to Psychology Wikibook, and The Psychology of Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts by Mark Pettinely.

Noba is an online platform that provides open, ready-made psychology textbooks and the opportunity to build a textbook from freely available chapters. Users must create an account to use Noba.

A collection of open textbooks from British Columbia, this site provides access to a variety of Psychology titles.

Flat World has several psychology books: Human Relations, Research Methods in Psychology, Principles of Social Psychology, Introduction to Psychology and Sexuality & Our Diversity: Integrating Culture with the Biopsychosocial.

AllPsych is one of the largest and most comprehensive psychology websites, referenced by hundreds of colleges and universities around the world.

Free podcasts covering important ideas in psychology. Ideas include: philosophy of psychology, science of psychology, scientific method, consciousness, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, memory, Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and so much more.

Podcasts that range from 10 minutes to 45 minutes in length that talks about Psychology in every day life. Topics covered: Gamification, media bias and misunderstanding about how science works, validity of psychological testing, and so much more. Some podcasts include graphics.

This course is a survey of the scientific study of human nature, including how the mind works, and how the brain supports the mind. Topics include the mental and neural bases of perception, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, child development, personality, psychopathology, and social interaction. Students will consider how such knowledge relates to debates about nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self, and society.

One part of a video instructional series for college and high school classrooms and adult learners.

Here, you will find articles, slide shows, stories, and so much more about the body and brain.

Here you will find videos, animation, lectures, virtual labs, and other useful resources in Neuroscience. Videos range from 25 seconds to 7 minutes.

In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank Green talks about OCD and anxiety disorders in the hope we'll understand what people with actual OCD have to deal with as well as how torturous anxiety disorders and panic attacks can actually be.