Research Guides: Special Education: Find OER

Recommended Open Educational Resources for Special Education

Books:

Intro to Special Education: Module 1 "This reading contains topics on Models of Disability, What is Special Education?, Principles of IDEA, and Disproportionality in Special Education."
Intro to Special Education: Module 2 Reading Packet "This reading packet contains selected readings on speech and language impairment, Assistive Technology, Learning disabilities, and Emotional and Behavioral Disorders."
Intro to Special Education: Module 3 Reading Packet "This reading packet includes topics on intellectual disabilities, ADHD, and Autism."
Intro to Special Education: Module 5 Reading Packet "This packet contains readings on universal design for Learning, high leverage practices, and differentiated instruction."
Intro to Special Education: Physical Disabilities and Other Health Impairment "This reading packet contains topics on physical disabilities and other health impairments."
Special Education in Secondary Schools "This textbook provides information on the practice of teaching special education in secondary schools. Research-based practices are explained for supporting student functioning in language arts, math, and other content areas."

Courses:

Children with Special Learning Needs - CHLD 240 "Children with Special Learning Needs Canvas Course - Developed by MiraCosta College as part of a CCC grant."
History of Special Education and the Special Education Process This special education unit of study was created by Jeanne Burth.
Special Education Dr. J. B. Dheesha developed this Special Education graduate course.
Special Education PD Dr. Kasey Roebuck developed this Special Education undergraduate course.

Other:

Educause: Open Educational Resources (OER) "Explore this resource site—a collection of all EDUCAUSE resources related to open educational resources (OER) in higher education."
Mason OER Metafinder "The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. Unlike other OER discovery sites (e.g, OER Commons, OASIS, MERLOT, OpenStax, etc.) with our Metafinder you aren’t searching a static database that we’ve built. Instead, the OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button."
MERLOT Collections This links to special education resources provided by MERLOT open education resources.
OER Commons This link provides special education resources from the OER Commons Collection.