Open Educational Resources (OERs) are, “teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others" (as defined by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation).
Learning Object Repositories (LORs)
- Open Educational Resources sorted by subject. Connect and share with others!
- Openstax CNX is a repository of educational content, containing over 17,000 openly licensed learning modules.
- Orange Grove Florida Repository - Teacher-submitted instructional resources that can be imported into your LMS. K-12 and higher ed.
- MIT open courseware - Free online course materials.
- WISC online LOR - Peer reviewed learning objects and resources.
- MERLOT - Multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching — peer reviewed.
- Library of Congress - The largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts.
- Visme - Create interactive online presentations, infographics, animations and banners in HTML5.
- What Works Clearinghouse - Peer reviewed articles, strategies and help.
- ShowMe is a free iPad app for creating voice-over whiteboard demos. This site has completed demos on all topics you can use.
- Pixaby - A repository of public-domain images.
- The Noun Project - Free icons and simple graphics.
Open Textbook Resources
- BCcampus
- Open Textbook LibraryBookboon
- OER Commons
- OpenStax
- Open Textbook Library
- Orange Grove
- Project Gutenberg eBooks
- Saylor Bookshelf
- SUNY Open Textbooks
- Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources – articles, more links, and the ability to search of over 750 open textbooks by subject.
- College Open Textbooks - This consortium of 29 education organizations uses the site to promote the adoption of open textbooks by community and two-year colleges. The textbooks are listed by subject.
- University of Minnesota - Open Textbook Library that brings together digital textbooks appropriate from multiple sources and in an easily searchable format. Every book is written by a faculty member somewhere. Many subject areas.
Articles
- Creative Commons licensing options and icons explained.
- What do we mean by "open' in education?
- Making sense of open educational resources.
- Article about OpenStax.
- Article about Best 10 Sites to Buy Cheap Textbooks Online.