According to Quality Matter (QM) standards, instructional materials should be selected because they enable learners to achieve the stated learning outcomes and course objectives. This includes all textbooks, publisher or open source resources/tools, multimedia, and websites. Students should be able to clearly understand how the material relates to the stated objectives. Instructional materials should also flow well with the rest of the course.

Full Courses

Bay College Library

MIT Open Courseware

Open Course Library

General Websites

General Websites (to search for all types of OER materials including texts, labs, and graphics; not discipline-specific):

OER Commons

Affordable Learning Georgia

Creative Commons

Open Education Consortium

Library of California State University, San Marcos

Lumen Learning

Merlot

Open Michigan

UNESCO OER Knowledge Cloud

Wikiversity

U.S. Library of Congress

World Bank’s OER Repository

Project Gutenberg

Textbooks

University Press of North Georgia

OpenStax by Rice University

Open College Textbooks

Saylor Foundation

Directory of Open Access Books

Open Book Publishers

WikiBooks

Community Repository (Connexions)

Florida’s Open Educational Resource Repository

Open SUNY

Open Textbook Library

BCcampus Open

Flatworld Knowledge repository

Photos, Graphics, and Imagery

WikiMedia

Pixabay

FlickrCC

Films & Video

YouTube (ensure videos are captioned for accessibility)

Films On Demand (requires GALILEO password if not on campus)

Khan Academy

PBS

Annenberg

Open Source Software

Source Forge

Open Source Education Foundation

Open Source Initiative