List of Open Educational Resources Websites
This page provides an annotated list of websites with OER (Open Educational Resources) for education teaching materials.
List of OER Websites
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- Open Courseware Consortium - use, share, and support Open Educational Resources (multilingual site) at http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
- A large resource of educational materials available on iTunes U at http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/ (remember to check the bottom of the page!)
- A good site to view video clips (sometimes long) of academic lectures on a range of topics is http://www.academicearth.org/ The lectures vary in style and quality, so it is worth browsing.
- OER Commons - free to use resources for teaching and learning from around the world at http://www.oercommons.org/
- TED talks (Technology, Education, Design) lots of informative video clips and a wider community of users at http://www.ted.com/
- This site is from the US Education Department consisting of teaching and learning resources from the US Federal government. New sites are added regularly: http://www.free.ed.gov/index.cfm
- The Open University OpenLearn Project - http://openlearn.open.ac.uk - an excellent resource
- Another good site from the UK Open University on interactive learning, with links to lots of great educational videoclips (now part of the OpenLearn Project) - http://www.open2.net/
- The Creative Commons site (re-use and mix for free) http://creativecommons.org/ or learn about Creative Commons by watching their video presentations at http://creativecommons.org/videos/
- EdutechWiki, an educational technology open resource, at TECFA, University of Geneva: http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/
- Q4R: Quality for Reuse http://www.q4r.org/ a Canadian website about Learning Objects Repositories (LOR) maintained by Teluq.
- Online College Classes - A free compendium of educational multimedia content from around the web.
- A website that works like a search engine to locate OER for educational use http://www.oerrecommender.org/
- Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/
- A free service for finding scholarly articles http://www.citeulike.org/
- The site of the European Digital Library Project and resources http://www.edlproject.eu
- Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Commonwealth of Learning (COL) WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org and course materials at http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/default.aspx
- Harvard Open Collections Program (OCP): http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) OpenCourseWare (OCW) http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm
- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
- Open access courses from Yale University http://oyc.yale.edu/
- Connexions: sharing knowledge and building communities http://cnx.org/
- Open Archives Initiative (OAI): http://www.openarchives.org/
- New Zealand OER Project: http://oer.repository.ac.nz/ This site contains only demonstration courses but you are able to access the full courses in the OER respository. All materials have been developed using a modular approach.
- Sofia (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) Open Content Initiative: http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/ Modeled after MIT’s OpenCourseWare Initiative, Sofia encourages the free exchange of community college-level materials on the World Wide Web.
- EdNA: http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go provides users with access to over 16,000 materials of interest to teachers and learners of all levels, covering a wide range of subjects.
- Blended Learning (click "Sourcing Content") http://blendedlearning.wikispaces.com/
- Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org
- Open Directory Project (ODP): http://www.dmoz.org
- BC Campus - shareable online learning resources at http://solr.bccampus.ca:8001/bcc/access/home.do?
- African Virtual Open Initiative and Resources (AVOIR) at http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/
- Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative with a range of open and free courses at http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
- dgcommunities - Open Educational Resources plus some links to further information at http://openeducation.zunia.org/
- Free Learning - access free educational resources from across the globe at http://freelearning.bccampus.ca/
- Harvard University Library - Open Collections Program - links to many open resources http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/
- Intute Virtual Training Suite providing online tutorial by subject to help with study skills - http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
- National Repository of Online Courses (USA) - open resources for Higher Education and for upper high school at http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc/index.html
- National Science Digital Library (USA) online resources for education K12 and Higher Education at http://nsdl.org/
- Utah State University OpenCourseWare site (and links to other US institutions) at http://ocw.usu.edu/
- CETL (Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning) (UK) reuseable learning objects by subject area at http://www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=246&Itemid=297
- Jorum - shareable open educational resources for Higher Education and Further Education from UK institutions at http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
- UCEL (Universities Collaboration in eLearning) - a catalogue of interactive multi-media educational resources at http://www.ucel.ac.uk/rlos/Default.html
- Google Books - an enhanced catalogue of global books (with downloads for out-of-copyright books) http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html
- More books for free (not just academic books) http://manybooks.net/
- Comprehensive list with annotations:
http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Repositories - OER search (no annotations): http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/OER+Dynamic+Search+Engine
- openSE - open educational framework for computer science Software Engineering: http://opense.net
- openED - Designing for participatory learning in open educational environments: http://www.open-ed.eu
- Curriki - a community of educators, learners and education experts who are working together to create quality materials for teachers and students around the world http://www.curriki.org/
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A vision for open educational resources
Richard Baraniuk is a Rice University professor with a giant vision: to create a free, global online education system. In this presentation, he introduces Connexions, the open-access publishing system that's changing the landscape of education by providing free coursework and educational materials to everyone in the world. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
