Open Educational Resources

An open access resource for faculty and librarians that is intended to be a collaborative space for adapting and experimenting with research assignments and sharing the success or lessons learned so that others may benefit.

"free learning and teaching resources, created and contributed by teaching staff from UK Further and Higher Education Institutions"

Created by California State University in 1997, the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching contains tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and content builders.
Browse for discipline-specific resources by clicking on the communities tab.

Web-based repository for "virtually all" courses at MIT. These resources are openly available and includes multimedia, lectures, assessments, interactive simulations, and more.

The OER Commons is a single search source that pulls from multiple OER collections, including MERLOT and Connexions. It is a great first step in an OER search, but often more results can be found by searching the specific collection.
It is a supported by ISKME (the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education).

Created by Rice University, contains tens of thousands of learning objects including lectures and assignments. These resources can work in cooperation with OpenStax textbooks or independently. CNX also allows for content creation and storage.

OPEN Washington: is an Open Educational Resources Network maintained by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.

A non-profit organization sponsored by the Saylor Foundation that brings "freely available education to all." Founded in 1999 by Michael Saylor, they have created online courses curated from open content found on the Web. The courses are marketed toward students who just want to learn, and are working on some methods for offering credentials. Saylor is a great site to start your search for OER by subject.

Curated by librarians, this showcases high-quality OERs contributed by faculty members from institutions around the United States

"a knowledge hub that eases a public and multilingual catalog of Open Educational Resources (OER) which aims to support the education community to find those resources and materials that meet their needs for teaching and learning through a specialized and collaborative search system and social tools."

Archive of free video and audio lectures from online courses offered at UC Berkeley from Fall 2005-Spring 2015. Current courses are available from edx.org

Over 6,500 free podcasts, and teaching materials created by the faculty at the University of Oxford and other leading academics.