Open Educational Resources (OER): Psychology

The NOBA Project is a growing collection of expert-authored, open-licensed modules in psychology, funded by the Diener Education Fund. From these open modules, Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee created an arranged open textbook for her introductory psychology class. This textbook was created under a Round One ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA)

Introduction to Psychology utilizes the dual theme of behavior and empiricism to make psychology relevant to intro students. The author wrote this book to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA)

his textbook represents the entire catalog of Noba topics. It contains 90 learning modules covering every area of psychology commonly taught in introductory courses. This book can be modified: feel free to rearrange or remove modules to better suit your specific needs.Please note that the publisher requires you to login to access and download the textbooks. (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA)

Psychology is designed to meet the scope and sequence for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. For many students, this may be their only college-level psychology course. As such, this textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of psychology and understand how those concepts apply to their lives. (Attribution CC BY)

This textbook introduces the idea of lifespan development from a psychological perspective. (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA)

This textbook presents core concepts common to introductory social psychology courses. The 8 units include 27 modules covering key social psych topics such as research methods, group processes, social influence, and relationships. (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA)

This textbook is based on a critical thinking approach, and its aim is to get students thinking actively and conceptually. To help students better grasp the big picture of social psychology, and to provide you with a theme that you can use to organize your lectures, the text has a consistent pedagogy across the chapters. (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA)