Affordable Content & OER for Faculty at Denison

Collection of items endorsed and vetted by American International Accreditation Association of Schools and Colleges Collection on OERCommons.

Materials in the Applied Math and Science Educational Repository are free for use and adaptation. Most resources are at the high school and community college levels.

Open resource for faculty and librarians about Research Assignments. A research assignment is anything that requires students to engage with information resources in a critical or reflective way. This most often includes finding, retrieving, analyzing and evaluating, using and integrating, or organizing the information in order to produce new knowledge.

Open educational materials for K-12.

Learning objects and lessons from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It offers a large collection of peer evaluated websites.

Open access books and journals and OA publishing options.

This search engine from George Mason University is connected to 15 major OER repositories.

This repository is one of the biggest and more famous places to find and share teaching resources.

A large user friendly OER search engine that allows for users to search by subject or by course material type (e.g. textbooks, simulations, audio).

This resource seeks to collect and distribute a variety of OER at a variety of levels and subjects.

This blog formatted repository seeks to bring together free resources on culture and education. The list of movies here is impressive.

Open Research Online (ORO) is the Open Access repository of research outputs from The Open University's research community. The service is publicly accessible and can be browsed and searched freely.

This repository contains learning materials, software, data, and models for teaching quantitative skills in undergraduate biology courses. QUBES is developed in part by faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.

Information about OhioLINK's efforts to lower the cost of college for Ohio higher education students by assisting our member libraries and campuses in identifying strategies for Open and Affordable Learning textbook and course material adoption, and helping locate statewide shareable library materials as well as open educational resources that are no cost or lower cost to students.

Information on OhioLINK grants for redesigning courses to use OER.

Collection of high-quality, open and adaptable course materials that can be used to replace or supplement existing teaching materials and reduce the cost of textbooks for students.

On this pages you will find openly licensed textbooks along with supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.

On this page, you will find the largest, most popular repositories of open educational resources separated by subject.

A collection of resources divided into humanities, social science, and STEM categories.

WeBWorK is an open-source online homework system for math and science courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems. Problems in the NPL target most lower division undergraduate math courses and some advanced courses. Supported courses include college algebra, discrete mathematics, probability and statistics, single and multivariable calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and complex analysis.

Find lectures and videos from some of the most respected instructors in the world.

Large library of MOOCs, some of which have material freely licensed for re-use.

Library of college-level courses from a variety of high-profile universities. Some course materials are freely licensed for reuse.

All of the learning materials presented on this site are CC licensed, but don't confuse "Learning Spaces" with the full Open University- their licensing/copyrights are different.

Offers complete courses composed of mostly open materials that can be copied and adapted for free. Lumen also offers partnering with institutions to manage and adapt resources for courses at a cost to students. Contact us if you would like to partner with Lumen.

Miríadax is an Ibero-American MOOC platform with complete courses in Spanish for a variety of topics.

MIT OpenCourseWare is a free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum.

A series of modules in the field of Psychology from Introductory courses to more advanced topics.

Open education course materials aimed at a high school level.

OERu offers a number of full courses in fields like business, economics, digital literacy, and history from partner universities around the world.

The WA Open Course Library project offers 81 of Washington's most enrolled courses. There are a lot of great readings in these course files. Great community college content

Complete courses from Carnegie Mellon University

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

Saylor offers full courses online. It can be really helpful to use the reading lists from Saylor to find and organize your courses.

UMass Boston OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners world wide. Whether you are a high school student preparing for college, a faculty member looking for ideas for a new course, or a community member researching a topic, you are likely to find something of interest in the UMass Boston OCW collection.

A list of open textbooks in various subdisciplines of Mathematics approved by the AIM editorial board.

Open Textbooks on Aviation from the Federal Aviation Administration (US).

A curated collection of open textbooks, many reviewed by British Columbia faculty.

Big Ten Open Books is a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The first collection is on the subject of Gender and Sexuality studies.

Bloomsbury is a well-respected and long time UK publisher who has released some of their academic titles for open access/open education.

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

Free medical textbooks.

Some books presented in this mass conglomeration of scanned books are fully available, most are excerpted.

Lever Press is a scholarly press supported by more than 50 liberal arts institutions. We publish peer-reviewed, born digital, open access monographs at no cost to our authors or their academic institutions.

Lyryx offers high-quality open textbooks in the fields of accounting, mathematics, and economics. They also have optional added (paid) resources such as homeworks and quizzes to accompany the open textbooks.

OpenStax providing peer reviewed, quality open textbooks with interactive components. There are some amazing textbooks available here, with more in production.

Hundreds of complete, open college-level textbooks collected by the University of Minnesota.

Find the full text of classics and public domain works from the first massive ebook creating organization in existence. Nothing fancy here, just files with the full text.

A project of the Wikimedia Foundation, this collection of group written textbooks in a variety of sources follows rules similar to Wikipedia.

A community of people who seek to promote the use of media in teaching. The materials posted here are mostly presented using Fair Use guidelines.

HippoCampus, a project of the Monterey Institute of Technology and Education (MITE), is full of high-quality resources in a variety of subjects. It is aimed at high school and college level users.

Songs by musicians who want to share their music.

Hundreds of short educational videos covering many subjects; especially strong collections in science and math.

These interactive tools from the University of Colorado at Boulder are mostly CC licensed.

Inspiring thinkers on a range of subjects present big ideas and lectures on a regular basis- completely CC licensed.

A social network of video producers. This is a great place to look for a wide variety of content- some is completely open for redistribution, some is open access.

The thinkers behind Wikipedia bring you images, video and music all openly licensed or in the public domain.

Creative Commons has created this really useful search engine that lets you search for resources that are CC licensed. The image search is the most useful.

We've put together this page on the Public Domain and how to find images and artwork that are in the Public Domain. Included are several resources for searching and finding images that are in the Public Domain.

You can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian collections

Overe 1 million photos that can be freely downloaded and used for either commercial and non-commercial purposes, no permission needed (though attribution is appreciated!).

This collection contains cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project, including thousands of items contributed by partner organizations worldwide as well as content from Library of Congress collections.