Open Educational Resources

Materials in the Applied Math and Science Educational Repository are free for use and adaptation. Most resources are at the high school and community college levels.

Open resource for faculty and librarians about Research Assignments. A research assignment is anything that requires students to engage with information resources in a critical or reflective way. This most often includes finding, retrieving, analyzing and evaluating, using and integrating, or organizing the information in order to produce new knowledge.

Learning objects and lessons from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It offers a large collection of peer evaluated websites.

This search engine from George Mason University is connected to 15 major OER repositories.

This repository is one of the biggest and more famous places to find and share teaching resources.

A large user friendly OER search engine that allows for users to search by subject or by course material type (e.g. textbooks, simulations, audio).

This resource seeks to collect and distribute a variety of OER at a variety of levels and subjects.

"a curated digital library of open educational resources."

This blog formatted repository seeks to bring together free resources on culture and education. The list of movies here is impressive.

Large repository of individual teachers' content, some courses and lots of modular writings about a variety of topics.

This repository contains learning materials, software, data, and models for teaching quantitative skills in undergraduate biology courses. QUBES is developed in part by faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.

" . . . the home for all things open at the University of Michigan—including expertise and services for open educational resources, open data, and open publications"

Searchable database offering nearlly 1500 openly licensed textbooks.

On this pages you will find openly licensed textbooks along with supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.

These are Google Docs made by Portland Community College librarians in response to requests for help from instructors.

A collection of resources divided into humanities, social science, and STEM categories.

WeBWorK is an open-source online homework system for math and science courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems. Problems in the NPL target most lower division undergraduate math courses and some advanced courses. Supported courses include college algebra, discrete mathematics, probability and statistics, single and multivariable calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and complex analysis.

Find lectures and videos from some of the most respected instructors in the world.

Large library of MOOCs, some of which have material freely licensed for re-use.

Library of college-level courses from a variety of high-profile universities. Some course materials are freely licensed for reuse.

All of the learning materials presented on this site are CC licensed, but don't confuse "Learning Spaces" with the full Open University- their licensing/copyrights are different.

". . . free and open publication of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum and used by learners and educators around the world."

A series of modules in the field of Psychology from Introductory courses to more advanced topics.

Open education course materials aimed at a high school level.

OERu offers a number of full courses in fields like business, economics, digital literacy, and history from partner universities around the world.

The WA Open Course Library project offers 81 of Washington's most enrolled courses. There are a lot of great readings in these course files. Great community college content

Complete courses from Carnegie Mellon University

Saylor offers full courses online. It can be really helpful to use the reading lists from Saylor to find and organize your courses.

Inspiring thinkers on a range of subjects present big ideas and lectures on a regular basis- completely CC licensed.

Hundreds of short educational videos covering many subjects; especially strong collections in science and math.

These interactive tools from the University of Colorado at Boulder are mostly CC licensed.

The thinkers behind Wikipedia bring you images, video and music all openly licensed or in the public domain.

HippoCampus, a project of the Monterey Institute of Technology and Education (MITE), is full of high-quality resources in a variety of subjects. It is aimed at high school and college level users.

Songs by musicians who want to share their music.

A social network of video producers. This is a great place to look for a wide variety of content- some is completely open for redistribution, some is open access.

A community of people who seek to promote the use of media in teaching. The materials posted here are mostly presented using Fair Use guidelines.

Creative Commons has created this really useful search engine that lets you search for resources that are CC licensed. The image search is the most useful.

We've put together this page on the Public Domain and how to find images and artwork that are in the Public Domain. Included are several resources for searching and finding images that are in the Public Domain.

Much of the contents of the Library of Congress are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse.

You can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian collections

Overe 1 million photos that can be freely downloaded and used for either commercial and non-commercial purposes, no permission needed (though attribution is appreciated!).

A list of open textbooks in various subdisciplines of Mathematics approved by the AIM editorial board.

Open Textbooks on Aviation from the Federal Aviation Administration (US).

A curated collection of open textbooks, many reviewed by British Columbia faculty.

Bloomsbury is a well-respected and long time UK publisher who has released some of their academic titles for open access/open education.

Free medical textbooks.

Some books presented in this mass conglomeration of scanned books are fully available, most are excerpted.

Lyryx offers high-quality open textbooks in the fields of accounting, mathematics, and economics. They also have optional added (paid) resources such as homeworks and quizzes to accompany the open textbooks.

Rice Connexions is providing peer reviewed, quality open textbooks with interactive components. There are some amazing textbooks available here, with more in production.

Hundreds of complete, open college-level textbooks collected by the University of Minnesota.

Find the full text of classics and public domain works from the first massive ebook creating organization in existence. Nothing fancy here, just files with the full text.

A project of the Wikimedia Foundation, this collection of group written textbooks in a variety of sources follows rules similar to Wikipedia.

This exciting set of reflection pieces offers a dynamic look at OER across multiple disciplines, with contributions by librarians Cailean Cooney, Nora Almeida, Joshua Peach, Joanna Thompson, and CityTech faculty from Nursing, Communication Design, Theater Arts, and more.

"A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources."

This expansive resource guide brings together analysis and open content on a variety of contemporary and archival topics, all written and sourced by Graduate Center doctoral students who are former participants in the Open Knowledge Fellowship hosted by the Mina Rees Library.