"Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation." (UNESCO) Always vertify the usage terms of resources before using them. Please use resources responsiblity.
Academic Earth
Free online college courses from the world’s top universities.
Bentham Open
BENTHAM Open publishes a number of peer-reviewed, open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social sciences.
Bookboon.com
Bookboon.com has published more than 1,000 free textbooks for students. These textbooks can be downloaded in PDF format without prior registration and cover topics such as business, economics, statistics, IT, engineering and natural science.
CC Mixter
This is a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses.Some songs might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses.
CC Search
CC Search, the Creative Commons search tool, offers convenient access to search Europeana Media, Flickr Images, Google Web, Google Images, Jamendo Music, Open Clip Art Library Images SpinXpress Media, Wikimedia Commons Media, YouTube Videos, Pixabay Images, ccMixter Music, and SoundCloud Music.
College Open Textbooks
College Open Textbooks is funded by an eminent group of generous sponsors, College Open Textbooks (COT) is a project of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and the Open Doors Group. It focuses on community colleges and other 2-year institutions of higher education and the first two years (lower division) of 4-year institutions.
Common Ground Open
A compilation of open access articles published across Common Ground journal titles. These articles are licensed using the Creative Commons license, “Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives 4.0 International” (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon
CAPL, is a source for authentic images for language learning. The site seeks to bring about the connection between word and image that can be lost in translation. All images found on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 US License.
Directory of Open Access Books
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. DOAB gives access to academic peer reviewed Open Access books.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journal. Subject areas include: Agriculture, Auxiliary sciences of history, Bibliography-Library science-Information resources, Education, Fine Arts, General Works, Geography-Anthropology-Recreation, History (General) and history of Europe, History America, Language and Literature, Law, Medicine, Military Science, Music and books on Music, Naval Science, Philosophy-Psychology-Religion, Political science, Science, Social Sciences, and Technology.
Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life strive to become an online reference and database on all 1.9 million species currently known to science with the goal of building a better understanding of life on Earth. It is an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.
First World War Poerty Digital Archive
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research. Anyone is entitled to use the material for Educational Purposes.
Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. It offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses. Every MP3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws. These uses vary and are determined by the rights-holders themselves who feel that allowing a degree of free cultural access is beneficial not only to their own pursuits, but to our society as a whole.
Global Text Project
Open content electronic textbooks covering business, computing, education health, science and social science. Provided by Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia and Daniels College of Business of the University of Denver.
HippoCampus.org
HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge.
InTechOpen
InTech is the publisher of one of the largest open access collection of books in the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more. Contributors include news broadcasters, universities, libraries and more.
Jamendo
Jamendo offers more than 350,000 free music tracks licensed under Creative Commons, all available for streaming and unlimited download without ads.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Subjects include math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. Khan Academy is partnered with institutions like NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, and MIT to offer specialized content.
Liebert Open Access
Liebert Open Access is your gateway to exploring open access content and publishing services from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Liebert Open Access incorporates our open access journals, as well as open access articles published in our subscription journals. All content published by Liebert Open Access is freely available online for everyone to discover, read, and share.
Lumen
Co-founded by open education visionary Dr. David Wiley and education technology strategist Kim Thanos, Lumen is dedicated to facilitating broad, successful adoption of OER. Several OER course materials are provided.
Merlot
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. MERLOT is a program of the California State University System partnering with education institutions, professional societies, and industry. Learning materials in MERLOT include Animations, Assessment Tools, Assignments, Case Studies, Collections, Development Tools, Drills and Practices, ePortfolios, Learning Object Repository, Online Courses, Online Course Modules, Open Journals, Open Textbooks, Presentations, Quiz/Tests, Reference Materials, Simulations, Social Networking Tools, Tutorials, Workshops and Training Materials.
MIT Open Courseware
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
Nation Science Digital Library
The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings. A project created by ISKME. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
Noun Project
The Noun Project is a platform empowering the community to build a global visual language of icons and symbols that everyone can understand. Symbols and icons on The Noun Project are licensed using Creative Commons.
OAsis
Oasis is The Commonwealth of Learning's online institutional repository of all publications. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. Collections/Communities include: Gender, Journal of Learning for Development (JL4D), Multimedia, Pan-Commonwealth Forum (PCF), and Publications.
OpenClipArt
Open Clip Art Library images are public domain images you can freely use for personal and commercial use without attribution to the original author.
Open Course Library
The Open Course Library is a collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download. All materials are shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license unless otherwise noted. Open Course Library is an initiative of the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges and is an OPEN partner providing services to TAACCCT grantees.
Open Learning Initiative
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. It aims to create high-quality courses and contribute original research to improve learning and transform higher education.
Open Library
Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation. Access to the Archive’s Collections is provided at no cost to you and is granted for scholarship and research purposes only. When accessing an archived page, you will be presented with the terms of use agreement. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use the Archive’s Collections or its Web site.
Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network.
Open Yale Courses
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses that span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets. The lectures are available as downloadable videos, and an audio-only version is also offered. In addition, searchable transcripts of each lecture are provided.
OpenLearn Create
OpenLearn Create is an innovative leading open educational platform where individuals and organisations can publish their open content, open courses and resources. It is Moodle based and has tools for collaboration, reuse and remixing.
Openstax College
OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers. OpenStax College is an initiative of Rice University and is made possible through the generous support of several philanthropic foundations.
Phet Interactive Simulations
PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. The simulations are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded to your computer. The PhET Interactive Simulations are distributed under the Creative Commons-Attribution 3.0 license and the Creative Commons GNU General Public License.
pixabay
All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty-free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.While Pixabay can be a good way to find public domain images your search will also return proprietary professional images Pixabay offers for sale.
PLOS
Public Library of Science is run by a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians working to make the world’s medical and scientific literature open and accessible.
Saylor.org Academy
Saylor.org Academy is a free and open collection of college level courses developed by a team of experienced college professors to fulfill the same learning objectives as traditional college courses. Its mission is sustained by the continued evolution of an open educational ecosystem. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. On TED.com, the best talks and performances from TED and partners are made available to the world, for free. More than 900 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages. These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons, is a database of over 30 million freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Wisc-Online
Wisc-Online is a digital library of objects that has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by software and multimedia developers who create the learning objects for the online environment. The Wisc-Online digital library contains over 2,500 learning objects that are freely accessible to teachers and students at no cost and with copyright clearance for use in any classroom or online application. Learning objects are designed and developed by a team of instructional designers, editors, technicians, and student interns.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.The majority of content in the OKR is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Works in the OKR that are not subject to the CC BY license are clearly labeled with the specific license terms under which those works may be used.
