OER Guide for Faculty

Jonathasmello, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Great Places to Start

• ASCCC-OERI has an excellent curated list of OERs: OER by Discipline.
• CCCOER’s “Find OER” page has an in-depth list of repositories & tools.

OER Search Engines & Repositories

• Cool4Ed
• George Mason OER Metafinder
• OASIS
• OER Commons
• Merlot
• Open Oregon
• GALILEO Open Learning Materials
• CC Search

Open Textbooks

• LibreTexts
• OpenStax
• Open Textbook Library
• BC Campus
• ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens)
• Open RN & Next Gen RN

Multimedia

Images

• Unsplash
• Wikimedia Commons
• Pexels
• Flickr (Use CC License filter)
• Google (Use CC License filter)
• The Met Open Access Collection

Video

• YouTube (Use CC License filter)

Open Courseware

• Canvas Commons (available within Canvas)
• Lumen Learning
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Saylor Academy
• Open Learn
• Khan Academy

Discipline-Specific

• CTE Online (CTE)
• PhET Simulations (Sciences)
• Skills Commons (CTE)
• The American Yawp (US History)
• The Noba Project (Psychology)
• Writing Commons (English)

This page is adapted from “How Do I Find OER” by Kelsey Smith, licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, by Mandy Concoff Kronbeck under the same license.