Open Access Resources


 

Looking for an online textbook for your students? Need an instructional video, a classroom exercise, or a sample lecture? Want to learn more about the movement for open access, online educational materials?  Here are the sites with the richest educational content and links to places where you can learn more.  To search many sites simultaneously, try the OER Dynamic Search Engine.  

 

Academic Earth -  "free online video courses from leading universities"

 

The Assayer  open licensed books searchable by subject

 

Bepress  Digital commons scholarly publishing

 

The Commons on Flickr - public photography archives

 

College Open Textbooks    organized by subject

 

Connexions

 

Creative Commons Resources - a list of  books available under a Creative Commons license.

 

Curriki  Course materials, mostly K12, offered by educators

 

http://criticalcommons.org/  video clips, lectures, and articles

 

Curriki - free curricula and education resources

 

Discover and Select an Open Textbook or Module A thorough slide set by Angela Secrest of Houston Community College.

 

http://www.doabooks.org  over 700 copyright free, peer-reviewed book

 

Flat World Knowledge  Open access textbooks, organized by subject

 

Global Text Project   open document format for college textbooks

 

http://www.hippocampus.org/  streaming educational video organized by subject

 

Khan Academy - problem solving videos, many in math and science

 

Merlot

 

MITOpenCourseWare - full courses produced by MIT faculty

 

Open Culture - Free cultural & educational media on the web

 

The Orange Grove  Florida state digital repository for course content

 

http://www.ocwsearch.com/

 

Open Educational Resources

 

Open Stax  Peer reviewed textbooks

 

https://openstaxcollege.org/books  --peer reviewed college textbooks

 

Saylor Foundation  Openly licensed college course content

 

http://www.scholarpedia.org/  open access encyclopedia, but curated by subject experts

 

TED Video links to lectures by notable experts in science, global issues, technology, business and design

 

YouTubeEDU

 

WikiEducator