Open Education Resources

OER Commons

Over 40,000 open educational resources from elementary school through to higher education; many of the elementary, middle, and high school resources are aligned to the Common Core State Standards

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

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

The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

CCCOER is a joint effort by the OER Center for California, Foothill-De Anza Community College District, the League for Innovation in the Community College and many other community colleges and university partners to develop and use open educational resources (OER) and especially open textbooks in community college courses.

OEDb

Over 10,000 free courses from universities as well as reviews of colleges and rankings of college degree programs

OpenStax

A non-profit digital ecosystem serving millions of users per month in the delivery of free educational content to improve learning outcomes. 

MERLOT

A California State University MERLOT collection of over 35,000 open course materials.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.

The Open Course Library

A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. 

Open Tapestry

Over 100,000 open licensed online learning resources for an academic and general audience

Academic Earth

Over 1,500 video lectures from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale

The University of Cambridge 

Open Educational Resources for teacher education and to support interactive teaching

OpenLearn

A free learning platform, delivered by The Open University

JISC

Joint Information Systems Committee works on behalf of UK higher education and is involved in many open resources and open projects including digitizing British newspapers from 1620-1900!

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.