Open Educational Resources

Overview

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are, "teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others" (as defined by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation).

Learning Object Repositories (LORs)

• Open Educational Resources(Opens in new window) sorted by subject. Connect and share with others! 
• Openstax CNX(Opens in new window) is a repository of educational content, containing over 17,000 openly licensed learning modules.
• MIT open courseware(Opens in new window) - Free online course materials.
• MERLOT(Opens in new window) - Part of the California State University system, the acronym stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. It offers thousands of online learning materials for educators around the world.
• Top Tools for Learning(Opens in new window): This is an annual list of the best ed-tech tools as compiled by the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies in Britain.
• Backward Design: Choosing Technology Tools for Teaching(Opens in new window): A program to help you develop learning goals and choose the tech to support them, created via the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium.
• Which Technology Tool Do I Choose?(Opens in new window): This is Edutopia.org(Opens in new window)'s version of how to choose ed tech.
• PBL (Problem-Based Learning) Clearinghouse(Opens in new window): Here is a wealth of realistic problem scenarios that you can use in assignments across a wide variety of disciplines, curated via the University of Delaware.
• Library of Congress(Opens in new window) - The largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts.
• Visme(Opens in new window) - Create interactive online presentations, infographics, animations and banners in HTML5.
• What Works Clearinghouse(Opens in new window) - Peer reviewed articles, strategies and help.
• ShowMe(Opens in new window) is a free iPad app for creating voice-over whiteboard demos. This site has completed demos on all topics you can use.
• The Noun Project(Opens in new window) - Free icons and simple graphics.

Open Textbook Resources

• Open Textbook Library(Opens in new window)
• Bookboon(Opens in new window)
• OER Commons(Opens in new window)
• OpenStax(Opens in new window)
• Open Textbook Library(Opens in new window)
• Project Gutenberg eBooks(Opens in new window)
• Saylor Bookshelf(Opens in new window)
• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources(Opens in new window) – articles, more links, and the ability to search of over 750 open textbooks by subject.

Articles

• Want to Reach All of Your Students? Here's How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive
• How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging(Opens in new window)
  
• Creative Commons(Opens in new window) licensing options and icons explained.
  
• What do we mean by "open' in education?(Opens in new window)
  
• Making sense of open educational resources.(Opens in new window)
• Article about OpenStax(Opens in new window).
• Article about Best 10 Sites to Buy Cheap Textbooks Online(Opens in new window).