Open educational resources (OER) are any resources available at little or no cost that can be used for teaching, learning, or research. The term can include textbooks, course readings, and other learning content; simulations, games, and other learning applications; syllabi, quizzes, and assessment tools; and virtually any other material that can be used for educational purposes.
OER typically refers to electronic resources, including those in multimedia formats, and such materials are generally released under a Creative Commons or similar license that supports open or nearly open use of the content. OER can originate from colleges and universities, libraries, archival organizations, government agencies, commercial organizations such as publishers, or faculty or other individuals.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne. OASIS currently searches open content from 115 different sources and contains 455,499 records. OASIS also has a browse by content or subject feature.
Open textbook collection designed to support post-secondary institutions of British Columbia. Some open textbooks contain supplemental or ancillary materials (e.g., test banks, quizzes, PowerPoint slides, videos).
Over 800 textbooks, many peer reviewed by leading academics.
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB.
Recently completed, adopted, or forthcoming OER.
CSU's MERLOT is a peer-reviewed collection containing tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials including textbooks, course curriculums, presentations, assignments and teaching and learning materials.
The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently-researched information on important matters in science and health policy; most titles are available fore free PDF format.
A repository of open access digitized videos for education and learning purposes.
Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants.
Resource network with links to finding textbooks, content, images and video.
Teaching Commons showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities, includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures and more.
Wisc-Online is a digital library of over 2,500 web-based learning objects developed by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System.
Foreign Language Resources. The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The overall mission of these federally-funded centers is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings.
AIM list of approved open textbooks which have been judged to meet their criteria.
Art and Art History videos and essays on art from around the world and across time.
Public domain items are not restricted by licensing or are no longer covered by copyright. Public domain items are usually older materials (i.e. prior to 1930) however may provide valuable context to historical and current research.
The world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. The BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to address this challenge by digitizing the natural history literature held in their collections and making it freely available for open access as part of a global “biodiversity
Photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and more digitized from US libraries and cultural heritage institutions.
Multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.
An online collection of digitized materials, HathiTrust contains 6,149,935 (and growing) volumes in the public domain.
Internet Archive collects published works and make them available in digital formats. We are building a public library that can serve anyone in the world with access to the Internet. https://archive.org/ This also includes the Wayback Machine which allows users to search, browse, and access snapshots of the internet archived through its database since 2001. Internet Archive has also created GifCities, the GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine https://gifcities.org/
A large collection of movies, films and videos that are all free to use.
Project Gutenberg contains over 57,000 public domain books.
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Published by National Institute of General Medical Sciences,
Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology: Discovering the Unseen World Through Hands-On Investigation
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A freely accessible, easy-to-search, public repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms,
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Contains hundreds of multimedia resources, including apps, animations, videos, interactive, and virtual labs..
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Includes tutorials, online courses, and more. From Carnegie Mellon.
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