How Do I Find OER?

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

Open Textbooks

• LibreTexts

• OpenStax

• Open Textbook Library

• BC Campus

• ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens)

• Open RN & Next Gen RN

Multimedia

• CC Search

• Flickr (Use CC License filter)

• Google (Use CC License filter)

• TED Talks

• The Met Open Access Collection

• Unsplash

• Wikimedia Commons

• Pexels

• YouTube (Use CC License filter)

  • Youtube Channels with accessible captioning (not necessarily OER)

    • PBS:

      • American Masters
      • Nature
      • Space Time
      • Eons
      • Above the Noise
      • Deep Look
      • Great Performances
    • TED Talks
    • TED-Ed
    • Khan Academy
    • Crash Course
    • 3Blue1Brown
    • Mathispower4u and Mathispower4u Espanol
    • The Art Assignment
    • MinuteEarth
    • Braincraft
    • Wireless Philosophy
    • The School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University
    • Audiovisual Lexicon for Media Analysis
    • Netflix Full Features

Open Courseware

• Canvas Commons (available within Canvas)

• Lumen Learning

• MIT OpenCourseWare

• Saylor Academy

• Open Learn

Ancillaries/Supplemental Materials

• Khan Academy

• PhET Simulations

• WISC Online

Discipline-Specific

• CTE Online (CTE)

• PhET Simulations (Sciences)

• Skills Commons (CTE)

• The American Yawp (US History)

• The Noba Project (Psychology)

• Writing Commons (English)

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