List of Open Educational Resources Websites

This page provides an annotated list of websites with OER (Open Educational Resources) for education teaching materials.  It is not a definitive list – please let us know of sites that you think should be included.

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• Open Courseware Consortium – use, share, and support OER (multilingual site) at http://www.oeconsortium.org/
• A good site to view video clips (sometimes long) of academic lectures on a range of topics is http://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://free.ed.gov/
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sofia (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) Open Content Initiative – Modeled after MIT’s OpenCourseWare Initiative, Sofia encourages the free exchange of community college-level materials on the World Wide Web: http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery
• 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?
• dgcommunities – OER 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 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
• Jorum – shareable OER for Higher Education and Further Education from UK institutions at http://www.jorum.ac.uk
• 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
• OER search (no annotations): http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/OER+Dynamic+Search+Engine
• 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
• Gleeditions – a site that provides free, searchable access to public domain Common Core literature for grades 9-CCR, developed by a team of instructional technologists and professors: http://www.gleeditions.com
• DD-Library – a Canadian non-profit that operates a digital library of OERs for teachers in Afghanistan: http://www.ddl.af/en
• AddictionCenter.com, connects individuals struggling with addiction to treatment options, as well as providing valuable information about substance dependence: https://www.addictioncenter.com

 

More OER Websites

Click on the other resource links on this site:

• Open Educational Resources – Advantages, Implications and Lists
• OER Challenges
• Selected OER
• OASIS
• Journal of Open and Distance Learning – free issue
• International Journal of Education and Development using ICT (IJEDICT)

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