Open Educational Resources

The Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services used by an international education community.

Videos created for teaching MIT's Open Courses.

Connexions (CNX) is the parent site of the OpenStax Textbook repository and includes additional teaching resources beyond texts.

Hosted by the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja in Ecuador, Serendipity uses linked data attributes to search the web for both whole courses and course modules.

This guide lists extensive resources, either already licensed by our library or freely available, for locating images to use in teaching.

Provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.

A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. (All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.)

University of Michigan initiative that enables faculty, students, and others to share their educational resources and research with the global learning community.

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

OLI is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach.

Part of the U.K.'s Open University, "OpenLearn aims to break the barriers to education by reaching millions of learners around the world, providing free educational resources and inviting all to sample courses that our registered students take – for free!"

"Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more...Our mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere."

"panOpen is a platform that enables mainstream institutional adoption of Open Educational Resources as an alternative to commercial textbooks. It provides faculty with turnkey peer-reviewed content, tools for customization, assessment, and analytics, allowing faculty to lower costs."

"Lumen Learning courseware helps improve educational access, affordability and student success, simultaneously. Co-founded by open education visionary Dr. David Wiley and education technology strategist Kim Thanos, Lumen is dedicated to facilitating broad, successful adoption of OER."

"Provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online."