Open Educational Resources
Please click on each of the sources in red text below to access content.
About Writing: A Guide by Robin Jeffrey: According to the webpage, "This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. It is broken down into easy-to-tackle sections, while not overloading students with more information than they need. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students!"
BCcampus: According to the site, "..It was on October 16, 2012 at the annual OpenEd conference in Vancouver that then British Columbia Minister of Advanced Education, John Yap, announced the creation of the B.C. Open Textbook Project. The project was asked to create a collection of open textbooks aligned with the top 40 highest-enrolled subject areas in the province. A second phase was announced in the spring of 2014 in which an additional 20 textbooks targeting trades, technology, and skills training would be developed." Watch this video to learn more.
CCMixter: According to the site, CCMixter is "a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. Looking for music for a video, school project, game you’re developing, or podcast? Find music liberally licensed – using dig.ccMixter music discovery tool."
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL): According to the COERLL website, "COERLL aims to reframe foreign language education in terms of bilingualism and/or multilingualism. As such, all COERLL resources strive to represent more accurately language development and performance along dialectal and proficiency continua.
COERLL's work is organized around seven basic areas:
CK-12 This Open Educational Resource site is especially created for students in K-12.
College and Research Libraries ~ American Library Association: This website includes OER Textbooks, iTunesU resources, the National Repository of Online Courses, Merlot Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching, Applied Math and Science Educational Repository, Academic Earth, which collects videos from the lecture-halls of universities around the country, Saylor Foundation free college courses, Open Course Library and Rice College Connexions.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources: Open Textbooks from A-Z.
Directory of Open Access Journals: According to the site, "Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals."
D-PLACE ~ Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment: According to the D-PLACE website, "D-PLACE contains cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1400 human ‘societies’. A ‘society’ in D-PLACE represents a group of people in a particular locality, who often share a language and cultural identity. All cultural descriptions are tagged with the date to which they refer and with the ethnographic sources that provided the descriptions. The majority of the cultural descriptions in D-PLACE are based on ethnographic work carried out in the 19th and early-20th centuries (pre-1950).
In linking societies to a geographic location (using a reported latitude and longitude) and language, D-PLACE allows interested users to simultaneously consider how cultural practices relate to linguistic ancestry, practices of neighbouring cultures, and the environment. D-PLACE makes visualizing these relationships easy, with search results available as a table, on a map, or on a linguistic tree."
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) + Education: This site is supported by the Museum of Comparative Zoology - Harvard University. This is an excellent collection of resources, with lessons aligned to NGSS Standards. Materials include podcasts, species cards, memory games, articles, Google Earth tours, featured collections, and BHL coloring books. (K-12)
EngageNY: This is an excellent site to search for award winning prekindergarten through grade 12 English Language Arts and Math curricular materials. (K-12)
Europeana: Explore 53,547,708 artworks, artifacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe. Find Art, Fashion, Music, and Photography collections.
Internet Archive Open Educational Resources: Here you will find quite a variety of resources, from University Lectures, such as MIT Open Courseware, AP Courses, Chinese University Lectures to Computer programming lessons.
Jamendo Music: Search for Free downloads and streaming of independent music.
Lumen Learning: This website offers a variety of math, science, english, business, history, and music open educational resources.
Merlot: Merlot is a program of the California State University System. Here you can find materials from the Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences.
MIT Open Courseware: This website offers anything and everything you could ever want to learn from gaming to physics! There is also a special section dedicated to learning for students in high school!
MIT YouTube Channel: This site contains recorded courses from MIT.
National Science Digital Library: This site provides great science, tech, engineering, and mathematic resources.
OER Commons: Search through curated collections from the OER Commons digital library. Included in the collections are language textbooks, NGSS aligned resources, STEAM, Computer Science, Game-Based Learning Resources and much more!
OER Commons ~ Stem: Use these resources to become STEM literate today!
Open Clip Art: All clip art images are in the Public Domain and can be used freely for both personal and commercial use.
Open Course Library: "A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Goli.cmu.edu/oogle docs making it easy to access, browse and download."
OER Dynamic Search Engine by Edtechpost: According to the webpage, "Contributions to
http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/ are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 License. Portions not contributed by visitors are Copyright 2016 Tangient LLC. TES: The largest network of teachers in the world."
Open Education consortium: "We are a global network of educational institutions, individuals and organizations that support an approach to education based on openness, including collaboration, innovation and collective development and use of open educational materials." Contains STEM Courses!
Open EdX: According to the website, "Open edX is the open source platform that powers edX courses. Through our commitment to the open source vision, edX code is freely available to the community. Institutions can host their own instances of Open edX and offer their own classes. Educators can extend the platform to build learning tools that precisely meet their needs. And developers can contribute new features to the Open edX platform."
Open Learning Initiative ~ Carnegie Mellon University: The site explains, "The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach. Our aim is to create high-quality courses and contribute original research to improve learning and transform higher education.
Open Library of Humanities: "The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future."
Open Oregon Educational Resources: The site explains, "Open Oregon Educational Resources promotes textbook affordability for community college students and facilitates widespread adoption of open, low-cost, high-quality materials."
Open Osmosis: This collection contains Health Education Resources, which according to the website, contain "images, videos, and practice questions within more than a dozen clinical domains. These include anesthesiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, neurology, obstetrics & gynecology, ophthalmology, pediatrics, radiology, and surgery."
OpenStax: According to the website, "OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and it’s our mission to improve student access to education. Our first openly licensed college textbook was published in 2012, and our library has since scaled to more than 25 books for college and AP courses used by hundreds of thousands of students. Our adaptive learning technology, designed to improve learning outcomes through personalized educational paths, is being piloted in college courses across the country. Through our partnerships with philanthropic foundations and our alliance with other educational resource companies, OpenStax is breaking down the most common barriers to learning and empowering students and instructors to succeed."
OpenStax CNX: OpenStax CNX maintains that the site is, "... designed to encourage the sharing and reuse of educational content. The knowledge in OpenStax CNX can be shared and built upon by all because it is reusable:
Open Textbook Library: According to the site, "The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks." Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Open Yale Courses: "Open Yale Courses (OYC) has provided free online access to archived versions of popular Yale College classes to hundreds of thousands of people from nearly every country in the world. The initiative, sponsored through generous funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, allows anyone with Internet access and the desire to learn the opportunity to effectively "audit" Yale's most popular undergraduate courses in the sciences, arts, and humanities."
The Orange Grove ~ Florida's Open Educational Resource Repository: Here you will find over 40,000 K-12 resources.
Physics Open Educational Resources from the Libraries at The University of Oklahoma: Includes open textbooks, lecture videos and other supplemental information.
PLOS: This website houses 160,000+ peer-reviewed articles are free to access, reuse and redistribute. Topics include Biology, Computational Biology, Medicine, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Genetics, and Pathogens.
Saylor Academy: "Our learning materials are curated from a trove of free and open online resources by expert educators (learn more about our course design philosophy). We focus on designing a self-paced learning experience that comes as close as possible to what you would learn in the college classroom. Our certificates are free, our courses available to you any time, and the deadlines under your control."
Skills Commons: Your FREE and OPEN digital library of Workforce Training Materials. Preparing the Workforce for 21st Century Employment through TAACCCT.
SOUNDCLOUD: This link contains licensed to share tracks, artists, podcasts, and playlists from SoundCloud.
TED: "These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, so they can be freely shared and re-posted".
Utah Education Network ~ Open Educational Resources: Includes HippoCampus, OER Commons, OpenEd, National Archives, and The National Science Digital Library.
Virginia Tech: Journals Published by Virginia Tech Libraries.
Wisc-Online: The site maintains, "Currently, we maintain a reputation for building quality learning management systems, innovative instructional design, and concise learning application development. Our expert instructors in the fields of health, science, mathematics, technology, industry, and general education create study aides that are proven to help users earn higher test scores and better grades." Wisc-Online is a creation of Wisconsin’s Technical Colleges and maintained by Fox Valley Technical College. Wisc-Online by Fox Valley Technical College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Unless otherwise noted, all content onOpen Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
OER sources, listed above, curated by Deborah Ehler-Hansen.
About Writing: A Guide by Robin Jeffrey: According to the webpage, "This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. It is broken down into easy-to-tackle sections, while not overloading students with more information than they need. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students!"
BCcampus: According to the site, "..It was on October 16, 2012 at the annual OpenEd conference in Vancouver that then British Columbia Minister of Advanced Education, John Yap, announced the creation of the B.C. Open Textbook Project. The project was asked to create a collection of open textbooks aligned with the top 40 highest-enrolled subject areas in the province. A second phase was announced in the spring of 2014 in which an additional 20 textbooks targeting trades, technology, and skills training would be developed." Watch this video to learn more.
CCMixter: According to the site, CCMixter is "a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. Looking for music for a video, school project, game you’re developing, or podcast? Find music liberally licensed – using dig.ccMixter music discovery tool."
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL): According to the COERLL website, "COERLL aims to reframe foreign language education in terms of bilingualism and/or multilingualism. As such, all COERLL resources strive to represent more accurately language development and performance along dialectal and proficiency continua.
COERLL's work is organized around seven basic areas:
- Applied linguistic research
- Teaching materials
- Language assessment
- Teacher development
- Less commonly taught languages
- K-12 initiatives
- Outreach and dissemination."
CK-12 This Open Educational Resource site is especially created for students in K-12.
College and Research Libraries ~ American Library Association: This website includes OER Textbooks, iTunesU resources, the National Repository of Online Courses, Merlot Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching, Applied Math and Science Educational Repository, Academic Earth, which collects videos from the lecture-halls of universities around the country, Saylor Foundation free college courses, Open Course Library and Rice College Connexions.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources: Open Textbooks from A-Z.
Directory of Open Access Journals: According to the site, "Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals."
D-PLACE ~ Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment: According to the D-PLACE website, "D-PLACE contains cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1400 human ‘societies’. A ‘society’ in D-PLACE represents a group of people in a particular locality, who often share a language and cultural identity. All cultural descriptions are tagged with the date to which they refer and with the ethnographic sources that provided the descriptions. The majority of the cultural descriptions in D-PLACE are based on ethnographic work carried out in the 19th and early-20th centuries (pre-1950).
In linking societies to a geographic location (using a reported latitude and longitude) and language, D-PLACE allows interested users to simultaneously consider how cultural practices relate to linguistic ancestry, practices of neighbouring cultures, and the environment. D-PLACE makes visualizing these relationships easy, with search results available as a table, on a map, or on a linguistic tree."
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) + Education: This site is supported by the Museum of Comparative Zoology - Harvard University. This is an excellent collection of resources, with lessons aligned to NGSS Standards. Materials include podcasts, species cards, memory games, articles, Google Earth tours, featured collections, and BHL coloring books. (K-12)
EngageNY: This is an excellent site to search for award winning prekindergarten through grade 12 English Language Arts and Math curricular materials. (K-12)
Europeana: Explore 53,547,708 artworks, artifacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe. Find Art, Fashion, Music, and Photography collections.
Internet Archive Open Educational Resources: Here you will find quite a variety of resources, from University Lectures, such as MIT Open Courseware, AP Courses, Chinese University Lectures to Computer programming lessons.
Jamendo Music: Search for Free downloads and streaming of independent music.
Lumen Learning: This website offers a variety of math, science, english, business, history, and music open educational resources.
Merlot: Merlot is a program of the California State University System. Here you can find materials from the Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences.
MIT Open Courseware: This website offers anything and everything you could ever want to learn from gaming to physics! There is also a special section dedicated to learning for students in high school!
MIT YouTube Channel: This site contains recorded courses from MIT.
National Science Digital Library: This site provides great science, tech, engineering, and mathematic resources.
OER Commons: Search through curated collections from the OER Commons digital library. Included in the collections are language textbooks, NGSS aligned resources, STEAM, Computer Science, Game-Based Learning Resources and much more!
OER Commons ~ Stem: Use these resources to become STEM literate today!
Open Clip Art: All clip art images are in the Public Domain and can be used freely for both personal and commercial use.
Open Course Library: "A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Goli.cmu.edu/oogle docs making it easy to access, browse and download."
OER Dynamic Search Engine by Edtechpost: According to the webpage, "Contributions to
http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/ are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 License. Portions not contributed by visitors are Copyright 2016 Tangient LLC. TES: The largest network of teachers in the world."
Open Education consortium: "We are a global network of educational institutions, individuals and organizations that support an approach to education based on openness, including collaboration, innovation and collective development and use of open educational materials." Contains STEM Courses!
Open EdX: According to the website, "Open edX is the open source platform that powers edX courses. Through our commitment to the open source vision, edX code is freely available to the community. Institutions can host their own instances of Open edX and offer their own classes. Educators can extend the platform to build learning tools that precisely meet their needs. And developers can contribute new features to the Open edX platform."
Open Learning Initiative ~ Carnegie Mellon University: The site explains, "The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach. Our aim is to create high-quality courses and contribute original research to improve learning and transform higher education.
Open Library of Humanities: "The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future."
Open Oregon Educational Resources: The site explains, "Open Oregon Educational Resources promotes textbook affordability for community college students and facilitates widespread adoption of open, low-cost, high-quality materials."
Open Osmosis: This collection contains Health Education Resources, which according to the website, contain "images, videos, and practice questions within more than a dozen clinical domains. These include anesthesiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, neurology, obstetrics & gynecology, ophthalmology, pediatrics, radiology, and surgery."
OpenStax: According to the website, "OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and it’s our mission to improve student access to education. Our first openly licensed college textbook was published in 2012, and our library has since scaled to more than 25 books for college and AP courses used by hundreds of thousands of students. Our adaptive learning technology, designed to improve learning outcomes through personalized educational paths, is being piloted in college courses across the country. Through our partnerships with philanthropic foundations and our alliance with other educational resource companies, OpenStax is breaking down the most common barriers to learning and empowering students and instructors to succeed."
OpenStax CNX: OpenStax CNX maintains that the site is, "... designed to encourage the sharing and reuse of educational content. The knowledge in OpenStax CNX can be shared and built upon by all because it is reusable:
- educationally: We encourage authors to write each page to stand on its own so that others can easily use it in different collections and contexts specially designed for their students.
- technologically: all content is built in a simple semantic HTML5 format rich with built-in accessibility features to ensure it can all be read by everyone. Also the OpenStax CNX toolset makes it easy for author to create and adapt content using a word processor similar to Google Docs or Word.
- legally: all content produced in OpenStax is available under a Creative Commons open-content licenses. This makes it easy for authors to share their work - allowing others to use and reuse it legally - while still getting recognition and attribution for their efforts. The OpenStax CNX software maintains attribution to the original author for you, making remixing a cinch."
Open Textbook Library: According to the site, "The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks." Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Open Yale Courses: "Open Yale Courses (OYC) has provided free online access to archived versions of popular Yale College classes to hundreds of thousands of people from nearly every country in the world. The initiative, sponsored through generous funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, allows anyone with Internet access and the desire to learn the opportunity to effectively "audit" Yale's most popular undergraduate courses in the sciences, arts, and humanities."
The Orange Grove ~ Florida's Open Educational Resource Repository: Here you will find over 40,000 K-12 resources.
Physics Open Educational Resources from the Libraries at The University of Oklahoma: Includes open textbooks, lecture videos and other supplemental information.
PLOS: This website houses 160,000+ peer-reviewed articles are free to access, reuse and redistribute. Topics include Biology, Computational Biology, Medicine, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Genetics, and Pathogens.
Saylor Academy: "Our learning materials are curated from a trove of free and open online resources by expert educators (learn more about our course design philosophy). We focus on designing a self-paced learning experience that comes as close as possible to what you would learn in the college classroom. Our certificates are free, our courses available to you any time, and the deadlines under your control."
Skills Commons: Your FREE and OPEN digital library of Workforce Training Materials. Preparing the Workforce for 21st Century Employment through TAACCCT.
SOUNDCLOUD: This link contains licensed to share tracks, artists, podcasts, and playlists from SoundCloud.
TED: "These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, so they can be freely shared and re-posted".
Utah Education Network ~ Open Educational Resources: Includes HippoCampus, OER Commons, OpenEd, National Archives, and The National Science Digital Library.
Virginia Tech: Journals Published by Virginia Tech Libraries.
Wisc-Online: The site maintains, "Currently, we maintain a reputation for building quality learning management systems, innovative instructional design, and concise learning application development. Our expert instructors in the fields of health, science, mathematics, technology, industry, and general education create study aides that are proven to help users earn higher test scores and better grades." Wisc-Online is a creation of Wisconsin’s Technical Colleges and maintained by Fox Valley Technical College. Wisc-Online by Fox Valley Technical College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Unless otherwise noted, all content onOpen Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
OER sources, listed above, curated by Deborah Ehler-Hansen.
For more information about Open Educational Resources and The Creative Commons, please refer to the Creative Commons website and view the videos below.
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Please Note: To evaluate the quality of Open Educational Resource content, please use one of the eight ACHIEVE OER Rubrics.
OPEN Attribution Builder:
Use this Open Attribution Builder to create citations, which include licensing information, for the OER resources you utilize in your curriculum.
Use this Open Attribution Builder to create citations, which include licensing information, for the OER resources you utilize in your curriculum.
Open Access Resources:
Annenberg Learner: The site maintains, "Annenberg Learner funds and distributes more than 100 multimedia courses and workshops to help teachers keep current on the content they teach. Professional development resources provide teachers with research on the most effective teaching strategies along with their connection to national education content standards, and examples of these principles applied in real classrooms. The video components are paired with extensive Web sites that include online texts, course and workshop guides, and extensive background information to enhance the learning experience. Using these resources, teachers can learn from experts, other teachers, and even students who reveal their unique interpretations of the content."
Bookshare: According to the Bookshare website, "Bookshare operates in the U.S. under a copyright exemption—the Chafee Amendment—which grants nonprofit organizations the ability to make books available to people with print disabilities without publisher permission. Bookshare receives publisher permission to provide books to members outside the U.S. and receives significant publisher cooperation in building its collection."
CORA ~ Community of Online Research Assignments: Loyola Marymount University Library maintains that this site is "an open access resource for faculty and librarians."
The World Digital Library: "The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures."
Updated: May, 2018
Annenberg Learner: The site maintains, "Annenberg Learner funds and distributes more than 100 multimedia courses and workshops to help teachers keep current on the content they teach. Professional development resources provide teachers with research on the most effective teaching strategies along with their connection to national education content standards, and examples of these principles applied in real classrooms. The video components are paired with extensive Web sites that include online texts, course and workshop guides, and extensive background information to enhance the learning experience. Using these resources, teachers can learn from experts, other teachers, and even students who reveal their unique interpretations of the content."
Bookshare: According to the Bookshare website, "Bookshare operates in the U.S. under a copyright exemption—the Chafee Amendment—which grants nonprofit organizations the ability to make books available to people with print disabilities without publisher permission. Bookshare receives publisher permission to provide books to members outside the U.S. and receives significant publisher cooperation in building its collection."
CORA ~ Community of Online Research Assignments: Loyola Marymount University Library maintains that this site is "an open access resource for faculty and librarians."
The World Digital Library: "The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures."
Updated: May, 2018
Teachers: Please view the slideshow below to learn how you can use OER to personalize learning for your students!