Open Educational Resources (OER)

A statewide professional learning community for faculty.

Social studies/history lesson plans, videos, and activities that fit within a free course (for teachers to implement).

A collection of research assignments that is shared with and by librarians, faculty, and other educators. The research assignments include best practices as well as informative user feedback.

CCCOER is a growing consortium of community and technical colleges committed to expanding access to education and increasing student success through adoption of open educational policy, practices, and resources.

Contains images and other materials licensed under Creative Commons. Be sure to check use requirements for each resource.

Resources from America's museums, libraries, and digital repositories - all in one place.

The online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives.

OERs in English/Language Arts, History, Foreign Language, and Culture. Student activities and lesson plans include videos, interactive resources, and curriculum. While for K-12, many resources are applicable to first two years of college.

A database of OERs compiled and curated for Illinois educators. OERs include educational websites, museums, online games & activities, curriculum, and related research. Includes resources for Higher Education.

Very popular online courses, videos, and supplementary materials. Applicable to higher ed.

Explore content that aligns with curriculum in most disciplines, especially general education and business courses.

Search 22 OER repositories at once.

Used in higher education, this OER provides lessons and activities in all disciplines. Many can be modified for middle and high school students.

Search through 114 different sites at once, including digital presses, MOOCs, and Digital Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

A large repository of digital resources, searchable by keyword, subject, grade, standard, and even language. Each result details the terms of use for ease of implementing in the classroom. Can be used in higher education.

A collection of shareable and adaptable activities, materials, assessments, and readings for a variety of disciplines. The information is managed by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.

A repository of courses and materials for a multitude of subjects and topics provided by The Open University.

This website is designed to serve as a resource for educators interested in learning more about open pedagogy. Browse through examples, which include both classroom-tested practices and budding ideas, and to consider contributing examples of your own experiments with open pedagogy.

Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.

Created by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, this site includes science lessons for grades K-12. Upper level lessons may be applicable to higher ed with some modifications.

Open access to American historical documents, sound recordings, videos, and other media such as photographs.

Over 54 million pieces of artwork, music, videos, and books from across Europe.

Explore museums, art, history, and culture through videos, exhibits, and music.

Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world.

Almost 400 Open Textbooks - all disciplines.

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

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

800+ Textbooks available with a print option (pay). These are peer reviewed and often include reviews from other professors.

OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and it’s our mission to improve student access to education. 20+ Textbooks.

Over 5,000 open access textbooks published by approximately 150 organizations and networks. Nearly all books are highly accessible, and many include interactive H5P learning activities to engage learners.

HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.

All Libretexts libraries are accessible to everyone via the internet, completely free.

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then release the audio files back onto the net for free. All audio is in the public domain.

Textbooks originally for college, but adaptable for teaching, reteaching, or remediation in high school environments. Math, Science, History, Business, and Social Sciences textbooks available.

Videos made available through PBS. (These are subject to copyright - read fine print and use within Fair Use.)

Simulations of science and math topics.

Free digital books that are in the public domain.

Over 50,000 elementary through secondary education videos with over 5,000 categories, this site features videos for classroom use curated and compiled by teachers. Can be useful in higher education.

Over 1,000,000 free (do-whatever-you-want) high-resolution photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

Free, well-designed graphic vector images to use (with attribution) in the Selection collection.

Under "The Commons," cultural institutions that have reasonably concluded that a photograph is free of copyright restrictions are invited to share such photograph under their new usage guideline called "no known copyright restrictions."

The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.

Free-to-use themed sets of images.

Contains collections of public domain music to browse, but also links to Library of Congress recordings.

Find public domain films showcased through the National Film Registry.