Textbook Alternatives & Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Educational Resources

A growing group of OER for higher education courses, identified by OhioLINK member librarians.

"Curating best in class learning materials from around the world since 2007."

"Open Educational Resources from Commonwealth universities and educational institutions."

"AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use."

"The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge."

"The world’s largest collection of open access research papers"

"Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education." There is also a federated search tool that searches several collections of learning objects and OERs alongside the MERLOT collection.

"The Orange Grove repository, is Florida's digital repository for instructional resources. The repository provides an environment for educators to search for, use, remix, share, and contribute educational resources."

"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."

"OCW Search is a search engine dedicated to helping you find the best free university courses online."

"OCW makes the materials used in the teaching of MIT's subjects available on the Web."

"SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations."

"Find images you can share, use and remix."

"Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts."

"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license."

"Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos."

This image collection from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is composed of both public domain and copyrighted images. They are marked as such, and those which are copyrighted do require that you ask the copyright holder for permission.

2.8 million images "from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo," all released into the public domain.

"Over 1 million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers."

"Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language."

A comparison of authoring tools compiled by Michele DeSilva, COCC & Amy Hofer, Open Oregon

FLOE provides the resources to personalize how we each learn and to address barriers to learning. . . . FLOE supports learners, educators and curriculum producers in achieving one-size-fits-one learning design for the full diversity of learners, leveraging the variants made possible by Open Education Resources (OER).

Our mission is to enable the community of accessible technology experts, advocates, and users to build an online community and collection of open education resources that can improve universal learning by facilitating the contribution and sharing of accessible technology information, expertise, and accessible online teaching and learning materials.