General resources
CK12.org
A California-based non-profit that provides “free and customizable K-12 open educational resources aligned to state curriculum standards.” https://www.ck12.org/student/
Cool4ed (California Open Online Library for Education)
Access to free textbooks and other resources.
Curriki
Curriki contains “free and open tools to design, customize and publish content.”
Edutopia
Edutopia is a source for information on online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, and sources for lesson plans and activities.
Mason OeR Metafinder (MOM)
“One search” access tool from George Mason University for finding OER from 15 major OER repositories.
MERLOT
This repository is a huge and popular site for finding and sharing resources for teaching.
MIT Open Courseware
Materials from MIT courses that are made freely available.
Nation Geographic
Lesson plans, maps, and reference resources for all grade levels.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/classroom-resources/
OASIS
A large user friendly OER search engine that allows for users to search by subject or by course material type (e.g. textbooks, simulations, audio).
OER Commons
A public digital library for OER including several levels and subjects.
OER Resources: Council of Cheif State School Officers
Open Culture
This site is the source for “some of the best free educational and cultural Media on the Web.”
https://www.openculture.com/free_k-12_educational_resources
Open Washington
An OER site containing “how to” instructional modules about OER and a link to an OER Repository with links to many types of resources.
OEDB Digital Libraries and Archives
State Digital Resources: Memory Projects, Online Encyclopedias, Historical & Cultural Materials Collections (Library of Congress)
Great list of state virtual libraries and archives. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/statememory/
OER for Public School Websites (Selected Examples)
Athens (ALABAMA) City Schools
https://sites.google.com/acs-k12.org/athens-city-schools-oer/home
Bullitt County (KENTUCKY) Public Schools
https://www.bullittschools.org/Content2/oer
Southeast Valley Schools
State of Washington
Open Educational Resources (OER) sources 2021
Open Educational Resources (OER) Sources 2021
This is a giant list of open educational resources (OER) sources and sites on the Internet. The site states that it is constantly updated.
Main link: http://www.oersources.com/
Information about this site: http://whitepapers.virtualprivatelibrary.net/OER_Sources.pdf