Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide.
Open Education combines the traditions of knowledge sharing and creation with 21st century technology to create a vast pool of openly shared educational resources, while harnessing today’s collaborative spirit to develop educational approaches that are more responsive to learner’s needs.
— Open Education Consortium
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact.
Haithi Trust has over 170,000 books under the search term "Urban Planning" available for free online. Type in Urban Planning and select Books from the left menu.
Peer reviewed books, reports and conference proceedings in the field are available from the National Academies Press for free online.
LibreTexts OER Textbooks and learning materials covering a broad subject range. All peer-reviewed and consistently-formatted.
"MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community."
OER Commons This resource provides access to OER collections, as well as authoring tools for you to create your own OER materials to share with educators all over the world.
Take free courses in urban-related studies within disciplines such as environmental studies, sociology, sustainable development, humanities, and much more. Courses developed by universities such as MIT, Stanford, and Cornell.
MIT Open Courseware offers an extensive series of online courses in Urban Studies and Planning. Course format generally includes lecture videos, interactive concept quizzes (solution key), problem sets, terms and definitions, suggested topics and links, and exams (with solution key).
Courses in areas related to transportation, from motor vehicles to urban infrastructure planning to aviation efficiency to adaptive technologies and their influence on personal behavior. Lectures, exercises, quizzes, videos and labs are open for instructor re-use or student review.
Open Michigan - Architecture + Urban Planning The Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning at the University of Michigan prepares students to participate actively in the design of buildings and the physical environment. To effect change, an architect must understand the nature of the human problem in its environmental context, have knowledge of the techniques and technology of building, and possess the intellectual and aesthetic skills necessary for a creative synthesis of that information into meaningful and expressive design solutions.