Open Educational Resources

A curated selection of OERs that can be accessed by educators. Curated and managed by BC Campus - an open education organization funded by the Canadian government to support universities and colleges in the province of British Columbia.

A searchable database of peer-reviewed scientific monographs that have been made accessible by academic publishers in open access. DOAB was established by OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Foundation.

Created by UC Davis with the support of Department of Education grants, LibreTexts contains open textbooks and other OERs.

Containing openly-licensed, peer-reviewed textbooks from the State University of New York, SUNY Open Textbooks provides open textbooks as well as consultation services for faculty interested in adopting or creating OER.

Part of a statewide collaborative called Minnesota Learning Commons (MnLC), which offers consulting, training, and a suite of tools for the use of OER in K12 and higher education.

Teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse. Launched by ISKME (Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education).

Peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print. Includes a free core set of ancillary resources for every book it publishes.

The Open Textbook Library is unique among OER indexes. Faculty are encouraged (and sometimes incentivized) to write reviews of OERs within the Open Textbook Library. For information about the OTN check the website). Purdue libraries are a member of this network.

The Open Education Consortium (OEC) is a non-profit, global, members-based network of open education institutions and organizations.

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a non-profit advocacy organization that supports systems for research and education that are open by default and equitable by design.

An alliance of hundreds of colleges, universities, and consortia partners working together to advance the use of open textbooks in higher education,

Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more. Access their combined power through a common, Python-based language or directly via interfaces or wrappers.

H5P makes it easy to create, share, and reuse interactive content by providing a range of content types for various needs.
You can create interactive content by adding the H5P plugin to your WordPress, Moodle or Drupal site, or integrate it via LTI with Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard and many other VLEs that supports LTI integration.

MyOpenMath is designed for mathematics, providing delivery of homework, quizzes, and tests with rich mathematical content. Students can receive immediate feedback on algorithmically generated questions with numerical or algebraic expression answers. And it can do so much more, providing a full course management system, including file posting, discussion forums, and a full gradebook, all designed with mathematics in mind.

Teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse. Launched by ISKME (Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education).

The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.

Created by UC Davis with the support of Department of Education grants, LibreTexts contains open textbooks and other OERs.

The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program created a free and open online library called SkillsCommons containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. The OER can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed, and remixed by an individual, institution, and industry for FREE with the proper attribution to the original author of the resources.

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.

The purpose of UNI ScholarWorks is to collect, preserve and make available the research and creative and scholarly output from the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) community.

MIT OpenCourseWare 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.

A place to create, store, and share your H5P activities. Built in collaboration with Wilfrid Laurier University Library, this platform will provide a jumping-off point for educators to connect over open modules.