A database of OERs compiled and curated for Illinois educators. OERs include educational websites, museums, online games & activities, curriculum, and related research. Includes resources for Higher Education.
OERs in English/Language Arts, History, Foreign Language, and Culture. Student activities and lesson plans include videos, interactive resources, and curriculum. While for K-12, many resources are applicable to first two years of college.
Created by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, this site includes science lessons for grades K-12. Upper level lessons may be applicable to higher ed with some modifications.
A large repository of digital resources, searchable by keyword, subject, grade, standard, and even language. Each result details the terms of use for ease of implementing in the classroom. Can be used in higher education.
A collection of shareable and adaptable activities, materials, assessments, and readings for a variety of disciplines. The information is managed by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
A collection of research assignments that is shared with and by librarians, faculty, and other educators. The research assignments include best practices as well as informative user feedback.
CCCOER is a growing consortium of community and technical colleges committed to expanding access to education and increasing student success through adoption of open educational policy, practices, and resources. We provide a community and resources to learn about the evolving practice of open education.
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then release the audio files back onto the net for free. All audio is in the public domain.
Over 50,000 elementary through secondary education videos with over 5,000 categories, this site features videos for classroom use curated and compiled by teachers. Can be useful in higher education.
Textbooks originally for college, but adaptable for teaching, reteaching, or remediation in high school environments. Math, Science, History, Business, and Social Sciences textbooks available.
HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.
Over 54 million pieces of artwork, music, videos, and books from across Europe.
Note: These resources are not technically OERS, but you can access and use them freely based on terms of use, copyright law, and fair use. Read the fine print.
Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world.
GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.
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.
Under "The Commons," cultural institutions that have reasonably concluded that a photograph is free of copyright restrictions are invited to share such photograph under their new usage guideline called "no known copyright restrictions."
The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.
