Open Educational Resources (OER)

Peer-populated platform, contains lesson plans, video introductions to museums, images and classroom activities.

"Free repository of information, tools, resources, models, examples, and research related to blended learning." (Blended Learning Toolkit: Toolkit Elements).

Search for textbooks, course modules, and other educational resources.

A repository of links to freely available texts that replaces a traditional reader for Composition courses, from the library at Columbus State Community College (Ohio).

Textbooks and other material from the City University of New York.

Open access books from academic publishers.

"GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials."

"iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational resources they need. These resources range in type from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses. Resources in iLumina are cataloged in the MARC and NSDL metadata formats, which capture both technical and education-specific information about each resource. iLumina contains thousands of educational resources and several virtual collections."

Open books and other resources on user experience.

Collection of learning resources which can be searched, browsed by subject or by standard. Target audience, educators for K-12.

An online platform to host open content. While much of the content is open, some courses included copyrighted material such as videos. Reach the licenses carefully before use.

"MedEdPORTAL Publications is a free, open-access publication service covering health professions education. This service is provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges in partnership with the American Dental Education Association and the American Psychological Association. Materials submitted to MedEdPORTAL Publications are considered stand-alone, complete teaching or learning modules that have been classroom tested and are ready for implementation by our users at their own institutions. Each submission is scrutinized by editorial staff and independent peer reviewers using a standardized review instrument grounded in the tenets of educational scholarship. Published authors receive a formal citation for their accepted publications. Our publications are scholarly works that may support faculty advancement decisions."

Discipline Specific peer-reviewed learning materials, and exercises free to use.

"Web based publication of virtually all MIT course content." (MIT OpenCourseWare: About).

MLA Commons Open Repository Excange (CORE) is a library-quality repository for sharing, discovering, retrieving, and archiving digital work. Digital works available through MLA CORE include the following: peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations and theses, works in progress, conference papers, syllabi, abstracts, data sets, presentations, translations, book reviews, maps, charts, books, and book chapters.

Free, open source, online course management system for mathematics and other quantitative fields. Students can do practice sessions on their own, or faculty can integrate the textbooks and exercises into a course.

Lectures, courses, animations & simulation tools

Emphasis in sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Search a wide variety of OER. Then sort by type of source, subject, and/or license. Sponsored by SUNY-Geneseo.

"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. Some of our materials (also called open educational resources, or OER) are paired with low cost textbooks ($30 or less). Many of the courses can be taught at no cost to students. Unless otherwise noted, all materials are shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license.OCL courses and materials have undergone testing for accessibility and have been designed using the industry-standard Quality Matters (QM) rubric for assessing the quality of online courses." (Open Course Library: About)

Open textbooks, course shells, and more from faculty at Linn-Benton Community College in Oregon. There is some overlap with materials in Open Oregon.

Textbooks and other course materials, heavy on math, science, music, and North Dakota history.

Open textbooks and lab manuals.

A listing of low- & no-cost course materials used by colleges & universities in Oregon to help reduce costs for students. Searchable.

Platform which allows for sharing, and adapting of educational materials.

Shareable Online Learning resources from BcCampus, which supports higher education in British Columbia. Select Guest Access.

Writing Commons (WC) is a peer-reviewed open education resource (OER) for college-level writers. Writing Commons was developed from a highly regarded text into one of the most heavily used open textbooks on the web. Following a crowd-sourcing process, Writing Commons now offers an interactive and comprehensive introduction to college-level writing.