OER+&+RLO

Open Educational Resources (OER) & Reusable Learning Objects (RLO)

media type="custom" key="21443862" media type="custom" key="21326600" Giving Away Knowledge for Free: A Discussion of Open Educational Resources

Providing Training in OERs

UMASS Amherst Grants for OER Development

Open Educational Resources from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Search engine for oer []

OER

 * Citizendium Open Encyclopedia
 * **Connexions (Large Collection with Multiple Subjects)**
 * [|Curriki] (K-12)
 * FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence History and Fine Arts
 * [|HippoCampus]Math, Natural Science, Social Science and Humanities
 * **[|MERLOT]**
 * MusOpen Music Resources
 * **[|OER Commons]**
 * [|Open Educational Resources] through Internet Archive
 * [|The Orange Grove]

Math & Science

 * AMSER
 * The Assayer
 * [|The Chemistry Collective]
 * [|HEAL: Health Education Assets Library]
 * [|NSDL: National Science Digital Library]
 * [|National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery]
 * http://phet.colorado.edu/

Social Sciences

 * Avalon Project
 * [|RAND Corporation] reports

Open Courseware

 * [|MIT OpenCourseWare]
 * **[|OCW Open Courseware Search]**
 * [|OpenCourseWare Finder]
 * [|Tufts OpenCourseWare]
 * [|Wikiversity]

Digital Media

 * [|Behold]
 * [|BurningWell]
 * [|ClearBits]: Open Licensed Digital Media
 * [|Compfight]
 * **[|Creative Commons Search]**
 * [|Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Reading Room]
 * **[|U.S. Government Photos and Images]**

Other Resource Guides
**Academic Commons** ( []) **AcademicPub** ( [|http://www.academicpub.sharedbook.com/]) **Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources** ( []) **Connexions** ( []) **Flat World Knowledge** (@http://www.flatworldknowledge.com) **InTech** (http://www.intechweb.org/.com) **MedEdPORTAL** (http://services.aamc.org) **MERLOT** (http://www.merlot.org/melot/index.html) **NanoHUB** (http://nanohub.org) **OER Commons: Open Textbooks** ([|http://www.oercommons.org/]) **Ohio Digital Bookshelf Project** ([]) **Open Courseware Consortium** ([]) **Open KSA** ([]) **Open Textbook Catalog** ( [] ) **SmARThistory** ([]) **Student PIRGs: Open Textbooks** ([|http://www.studentpirgs.org]) **Textbook Media** ([]) **Textbook Revolution** ([|http://textbookrevolution.org/]) **The Global Text Project** ([]) **WikiEducator** ([])
 * [|OER Handbook for Educators]
 * [|Open DOAR]
 * [|WikiEducator: Exemplary Collection of Open eLearning Content Repositories]
 * Academic Commons is dedicated to the development of free web-based resources for academic professionals focusing on liberal arts education via digital tools.
 * The news aggregator showcases current developments and projects in the open education community.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">AcademicPub is a build-your-own-textbook service that offers students three different options for purchasing the book: digital download, paperback, or hardcover.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Instructors can create a customized textbook with book chapters, case studies and journal articles.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">AcademicPub provides services to track how much royalties will cost for each custom textbook.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The CCCOER collects open access resources for the creation of textbook alternatives, in addition to open content repositories and developmental tools.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Access to over 500 open texbooks, as well as a useful guide to creating and implementing your own open access textbook.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Connexions contains educational materials for everyone - from children to college students to professionals - organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons attribution license
 * Provides a new approach to college textbooks offering rigorously reviewed textbooks online free of cost to students.
 * Offers full-text online for free and in a variety of affordable formats.
 * A multidisciplinary Open Access publisher of books and journals covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.
 * InTech as published more than 850 Open Access books, and provides support services for faculty who wish to publish a book or journal and make it available via Open Access.
 * Free online peer-reviewed publication service for medical resources such as teaching materials, assessment tools and faculty development.
 * Promotes educational collaboration through the open exchange of scholarly educational resources.
 * Users can download and utilize any and all of the published resources for educational purposes without legal infringements.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Links to online learning materials are collected here along with assignments and comments to enhance the teaching experience of an exercise
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Provides over 1600 open teaching and learning resources: online presentations; course material; learning modules; podcasts; simulation tools.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A pilot project for the Ohio Textbook HQ, the Ohio Digital Bookshelf aims to provide inexpensive higher-ed textbooks.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Free registration required to view textbooks.
 * Free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.
 * A collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a board and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
 * Digital course material made freely available by the <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A catalog of open access textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members, made available by the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">All textbooks in this catalog are openly licenses, complete, and available in print at very little cost.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> A free and open, online, not-for-profit art history textbook with complete multimedia content.
 * A catalog of information about some of the top examples of open college textbooks, offered online under a license allowing free digital access and inexpensive print options. Material can be easily modified to fit your needs.
 * Subjects covered: Accounting & Finance; Business, Management & Marketing; Computer Science & Information Systems; Economics; General Education; Humanities & Language; Mathematics & Statistics; Natural & Physical Sciences; Social Sciences.
 * Offers a number of e-Textbooks sorted by author and topic
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">All of the textbooks can be downloaded for free and many of them can be purchased in print form
 * A student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors
 * The approach is to bring all of the free textbooks they can find together in one place, review them, and let the best rise to the top and find their way into the hands of students in classrooms around the world
 * A free library of thousands of texts for students in a range of topics covered in a university undergraduate program
 * Join venture between the Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia and the Daniels College of Business of the University of Denver.
 * Individual book chapters can be opened and modified to fit your own needs.

**World Lecture Hall** ([])
 * An evolving online community intended for the planning of education projects linked with the development of free content and the development of free content on WikiEducator for free learning.

Open Video Sharing
 * Includes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language.


 * Moving Image ArchiveA large collection of movies, films and videos that are all free to use.
 * The Open Video ProjectA repository of open access digitized videos for education and learning purposes.

Open Image Sharing


 * Flickr: Creative CommonsA collection of images published on Flickr using a Creative Commons license.
 * NY Public Library Digital GalleryOpen access to over 700,000 digital images from the new York Public Library's collections.
 * U.S. Government Photos and ImagesA vast collection of photos and images from the U.S. Government, many of which are in the public domain and free to use.

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