Open Educational Resources (OERs): Business

Business Communication for Success (BCS) provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor. Each chapter is self-contained, allowing for mix-and-match flexibility and custom or course-specific design. Each chapter focuses on clear objectives and skill demonstrations that can be easily linked to your syllabus and state or federal requirements. Supported by internal and external assessments, each chapter features time-saving and learning-enhancement support for instructors and students.

Fundamentals of Business, a full color, 440+ page free online textbook for Virginia Tech’s Foundations of Business course, is an open educational resource, and may be customized and redistributed non-commercially with attribution.

Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective uses annual reports of real companies to illustrate many of the accounting concepts in use in business today. Gaining an understanding of accounting terminology and concepts, however, is not enough to ensure your success. You also need to be able to find information on the Internet, analyze various business situations, work effectively as a member of a team, and communicate your ideas clearly. This text was developed to help you develop these skills.

Principles of Marketing teaches the experience and process of actually doing marketing—not just the vocabulary. It carries five dominant themes throughout in order to expose students to marketing in today’s environment: Service dominant logic, sustainability, ethics and social responsibility, global coverage, and metrics.

This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for businesspeople to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials—and to their own lawyers.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard.

The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts.

Web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content in Business

Textbooks and additional course material from the State University of New York

Course materials for a wide span of business courses, including Business Law, Accounting, Finance, Marketing, etc.

Materials from lower level business courses in Oregon

Includes PowerPoints, activities, videos, and more.

The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials and learning exercises. The site features a robust filter to enhance searching.

TED will link you with 5-25 min talks on a variety of business topics. You can browse by subject, length, or rating.