Open Textbook Examples

Art Appreciation
Full text: https://courses.candelalearning.com/masteryart1x6xmaster/

Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning
Full Text: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=374Full Text: https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/arts-textbooks/3/

Art Appreciation and Techniques
Full Text: https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=360

Art History I
Full Text: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-arthistory1/

Art History II
Full Text: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-arthistory2/   

Art History
Full text: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/art-history/view

Concise History of Art
Full Text: https://butteedu-my.sharepoint.com/personal/wakimsu_butte_edu/Documents/Forms/All.aspx?slrid=1fcc3b9e%2Da05a%2D4000%2D8776%2D701df027d59e&RootFolder=%2Fpersonal%2Fwakimsu%5Fbutte%5Fedu%2FDocuments%2FConcise%20History%20of%20Art%20Textbook&FolderCTID=0x012000D1EBF22B4687A54E91438D7A99E19EEF

Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals
Full Text: https://opentextbc.ca/graphicdesign/ or
Full Text: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=344

Introduction to Computer Graphics
Full Text: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=420

Digital Foundations
Full Text: https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=8751756a-772c-4232-bd7e-89f87f9d71b9&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Art, Media and Design

Introduction to Visual Design (MOOC)
https://oli.cmu.edu/courses/free-open/introduction-to-visual-design/

Introduction to the History of Modern Art
https://arh141.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Other OER Resources

Smart History
https://smarthistory.org/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Public Domain Images
https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources

Additional Art OER Textbooks and Resources
https://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/textbook-listings/textbooks-by-subject/finearts

Learn Free - Beginning Graphic Design
https://www.gcflearnfree.org/beginning-graphic-design/

Smarthistory: Art History on Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/beginners-art-history/a/cave-painting-contemporary-art-and-everything-in-between

Introduction to the History of Modern Art
https://arh141.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Art History Teaching Resources
https://arthistoryteachingresources.org/

 

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