Open Educational Resources
Finding and using OER for teaching
Course Modules / Learning Objects
Modular Course Components
- MERLOT IIThe 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.
- MIT YouTube ChannelVideos created for teaching MIT's Open Courses.
- OpenStax CNXConnexions (CNX) is the parent site of the OpenStax Textbook repository and includes additional teaching resources beyond texts.
- Serendipity - Semantic Course SearchHosted 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.
- MHC Library Research Guide for Art - locate imagesThis guide lists extensive resources, either already licensed by our library or freely available, for locating images to use in teaching.
Open Courseware - full courses
Complete Courses
- Open Yale CoursesProvides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.
- Open Course LibraryA 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.)
- Open.Michigan-College of Literature, Science, and the ArtsUniversity of Michigan initiative that enables faculty, students, and others to share their educational resources and research with the global learning community.
- MIT Open CoursewareMIT 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.
- Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon UniversityOLI is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach.
- UK Open University Learning SpacePart 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"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."
Hybrid OER Enterprises (not free)
Hybrid Enterprises (Open and "Affordable")
- PanOpen"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"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."
- Coursera (some free)"Provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online."
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