John E. Riley Library: Open Educational Resources: OER Materials

OERs go beyond textbooks. From activities to syllabi faculty around the nation are sharing their ideas. The items listed below are some of the main aggregators.

Find Open Educational Resources Online

OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search). We have gathered more than 155,000+ records from 52 different sources that have been carefully selected in collaboration with SUNY OER Services.

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Many colleges and universities have developed repositories for open materials. The following are some of the largest in the nation.

NCLOR: North Carolina Learning Object Repository
Developed as a repository for PreK-20 educators in North Carolina it now has over 10,000 individual learning objects for higher education. Non-NC educators will have to sign in with a guest account limiting some items.
Open Course Library
FULL COURSE Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Washington CC courses under 30$
Texas A&M University OAK Search
Search through Texas A&M's catalog for open access materials. Includes excellent limits including peer reviewed articles, books, research datasets, and more.
Wisc-Online
A collaborative effort from the 16 colleges in the Wisconsin Technical College System this resource provides 'learning objects' or small modules for basic concepts like "summarizing" in the humanities or the "anatomy of the heart" in life sciences. Has a robust browsing function.

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning
MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

OER Commons
Find Free-to-Use Teaching and Learning Content from around the World. Organize K-12 Lessons, College Courses, and more.

Open Culture
Open Culture's goal is to bring together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Dan Colman is the lead editor--he is the Director & Associate Dean of Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program.

Open Washington
Features:
Learn OER: a self-paced OER training guide.
Find OER: a categorized OER search guide including texbooks, videos, images, and other materials
Attribution Builder: build your own attributions using CC licenses.
OER Stories: a place where real faculty share their personal journey in using OER.