OER Resources - Political Science

The B.C. Open Textbook Project provides featured textbooks for Political Science.

Online open textbook on political science in the U.S.

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

All of the books on the National Academies Press site are available as freely downloadable PDFs.

OER Commons provides a curated collection of political science textbooks and resources.

Project Gutenberg's list of Politic works in the public domain that are available freely online.

Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums.

Dig deeper into the issues making the news - from new technology and social media to the energy crisis, inequality and the threat of new conflicts - with our online political science and international relations courses.

MIT offers over 100 open courses covering political science topics. Includes re-usable lecture videos, problem sets and exams. Especially excellent in international relations and comparative politics with an orientation toward issues of public policy both domestic and international.

Open Learn provides nine courses on topics such as "Politics, media and war: 9/11 and its aftermaths", "The USA, power and international order: Foreign policy under Obama", and "Rights and justice in international relations."

Create and share lessons around any TED-Ed Original, TED Talk or YouTube Video.

This Digital Library portal contains the metadata of the YouTube Channels of the world's Top Universities.

The activists interviewed for this project belong to a wide range of occupations, including lawyers, judges, doctors, farmers, journalists, professors, and musicians, among others. The video recordings of their recollections cover a wide variety of topics within the civil rights movement, such as the influence of the labor movement, nonviolence and self-defense, religious faith, music, and the experiences of young activists.

This exhibition explores the rich history of select individuals, parties, events, and movements that have influenced US presidential elections from the outside—outside Washington politics, outside the two-party system, and outside the traditional conception of who can be an American president.

This web site includes comprehensive documents on hate crimes across the USA. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports hundreds of active hate groups in the United States. This is something everyone needs to be aware of. Do you know what is in your backyard? Check it out. This is an excellent site for course assignments and or discussion in all fields of study.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more

Uses images and audio to help memorize vocabulary. Interactive site that saves individual progress.

The mission of the Political Database of the Americas is to contribute to the study, promotion and strengthening of democracy in the hemisphere, through the collection, systematization, dissemination, and exchange of information, data, statistics, and institutions from a political perspective, comparative studies; and other resources relevant to the 35 countries of the region.

A college-level textbook covering data basics, probability (optional), distributions, inference for means and proportions, and regression, including multiple and the basics of logistic regression.

Snag Films has over 2,000 movies, TV show episodes, eye-opening documentaries. Search keywords to find related political films and documentaries.