LibGuides: Open Education Resources: Open Supplementary Resources

OER Commons
Worldwide learning network of shared teaching and learning materials.
MERLOT Open Education Repositories
The MERLOT system provides access to curated free and open online teaching and learning support materials and content creation tools, used by an international community of educators, learners and researcher.
National Science Digital Library
Access to teaching and learning materials in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Search by level, resource type, and subject.
SOL*R
Repository service to free online learning resources provided by BCcampus to facilitate sharing, discovery, reuse, and remixing of a growing collection of content created by BC post-secondary educators from a wide variety of disciplines and subject areas. Resources include open textbooks, individual learning activities and tools, and full programs.
HippoCampus
Free academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content -- videos, animations, and simulations -- on general education subjects from middle-school to college level.
NCLOR: North Carolina Learning Objects Repository
Collects and shares learning resources (e.g., documents, audio/video clips, simulations, learning modules, and assessments) for North Carolina teachers from elementary school to college. Provides a guest login. As guests, you only have access to the items in the collection that have been made available to the public.
Open Professionals Education Network: Find OER
Resource to find openly licensed media elements (i.e, images, video, audio) to use in your courses.
WISC-ONLINE
Small, high quality digital library of web-based learning resources.
MASON OER Metafinder (MOM)
Launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier by searching open content from 97 different sources and contains over 385,000 records.

Open Courses from BCcampus
Open course materials curated and expertly designed into downloadable courses for BC educators. Currently includes Intro to Management, Intro to Marketing, and Business Communications I & II, with more being developed.
Skills Commons
SkillsCommons is a free and open online library containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. The Open Educational Resources (OER) are produced by community colleges across the nation and can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed and remixed by individuals, institutions, and industry.
NCLOR: North Carolina Learning Objects Repository
Collects and shares learning resources (e.g., documents, audio/video clips, simulations, learning modules, and assessments) for North Carolina teachers from elementary school to college. Provides a guest login. As guests, you only have access to the items in the collection that have been made available to the public.
SOL*R
Includes everything from ABE math tests to open medical terminology resources.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Free interactive, research-based math and science simulations to engage students by learning through exploration and discovery via an intuitive, game-like environment.
Top 40 Course Curation Guides
Colorado Community College's top 40 OER Curation Guides. Materials have been curated from a variety of sources by librarians and vetted for content and alignment by subject matter experts. Very useful for developing your own OER/ZTC course. Material included in these documents may include open courses, open textbooks, and/or sections of open content that is mapped to specific outcomes/competencies or items in the topical outline found in Colorado’s Common Course Numbering System.
Tapestry Tool
The Tapestry Tool allows instructors and students to share in the co-creation of course material via the creation of a ‘tapestry.’ Tapestries allow students to view and interact with content in a non-linear fashion and make visual connections across topics–affordances that are missing in other learning platforms.

Open Multimedia & Tool Collection
Includes large number of open sources for general multimedia, audio, images, videos
UBC's Aggregated List of Image Sources
A comprehensive list of image collections that are either in the Public Domain or Creative Commons licensed.
Creative Commons Search
Includes a variety of media.
Google Advanced Image Search
Filter results by usage rights i.e. "free to use or share"
Wikimedia Commons
Freely usable media files (images, audio, video). Check the image summary for details on permitted use.
Getty Institute Open Images
Searchable database of Creative Commons licensed images under Getty’s Open Content Program.
Flickr
Use advanced search and select Creative Commons licensed images.
World Images
California State University IMAGE Project, containing approximately 100,000 images, global in coverage and including all areas of visual imagery.
Pexels
Free images available with a CC0 (public domain - available to use freely for any legal purpose).
Pixabay
Free high-resolution stock photos with a CC0 (public domain) depicting a wide variety of subjects. Incudes attribution in download file.
Unslplash
Free high-resolution stock photos with a CC0 (public domain) depicting a wide variety of subjects.
Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago has contributed approximately 1,450 images from their global permanent collection to the Artstor Digital Library. The selection in Artstor represents the diversity and excellence of the collection, featuring iconic highlights with an emphasis on antiquities from various cultures, European paintings, and works on paper
Cleveland Museum Open Access Collection The Cleveland Museum of Art released more than 34,000 digital images of public domain works in high resolution.
ClipArt ETC The Florida Center for Instructional Technology collection of clipart for use in non-commercial, non defamatory educational projects subject to minor restrictions.
Clker An online sharing service where users share free public domain vector cliparts, or vector cliparts from public domain photos.
Openclipart "Each artist at Openclipart releases all rights to the images they share at Openclipart." Images are free to use for any purpose, commercial and non commercial.
Smithsonian Open Access
The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 19 museums and the National Zoo—shaping the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Open Multimedia & Tool Collection
Includes large number of open sources for general multimedia, audio, images, videos
Al Jazeera
Select 'video is available for free to be downloaded, shared, and remixed'.
Critical Commons
Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts.
Internet Archive Moving Image Archive
Contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
Khan Academy
Find videos or short lectures on math, biology, chemistry, physics, humanities, finance and history.
TED
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).
Videolectures.net
An open access educational video lectures repository. Lectures are given by scholars and scientists at events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of science.
Vimeo Creative Commons
A browse-able collection of Creative Commons licensed videos.
YouTube Education
YouTube allows content creators to add a creative commons license to their videos.
OV: The Open Video Project
A repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Created and sponsored by UNC's School of Library & Info Science. Archival videos include storyboards but no closed captions.
Videvo
Videvo offers stock video footage and motion graphics for use in any project, commercial or non-commercial, through use of its own license or CC 3.0 license.

Open Courses from BCcampus
Open course materials curated and expertly designed into downloadable courses for BC educators. Currently includes Intro to Management, Intro to Marketing, and Business Communications I & II, with more being developed.
Collection of Open Courses & Open Course Collections
Extensive list of open courses and collections of open courses.
Khan Academy
Find videos or short lectures on math, biology, chemistry, physics, humanities, finance and history.
Coursera
An education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
edX
Interactive online classes and MOOCs from some of the world's top universities, including MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, and UTx.
Open Yale
Free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Open web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.
Open Course Library
Collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs.

Open Use Audio Collections

ccMixter
A community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
freesound
Collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.
Incompetech
Royalty-free music site. Each piece on this site is available under different licenses and uses creative commons by attribution 3.0
Musopen
Recordings, sheet music, and textbooks available to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.
National Jukebox (Library of Congress)
Historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge.