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Open Educational Resources
Library Services
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OER
Find Open Educational Resources through repositories and search engines.
OER is being produced continuously in multiple formats and subjects, growing the available free quality resources available to students and instructors. Support is available for sourcing, evaluating and implementing OER through the library.
- OER Adoption GuideUse this fillable form to guide you through initial searches for OER to adoption.
Guide adapted from a worksheet developed by Dr. Judy Baker, Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources. January 21, 2008 and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Search for OER
The Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) allows you to search over 100 different sources simultaneously. Discover OER sources including complete courses, videos, and other educational materials.
OER Repositories
- Open Professionals Education NetworkFrom website: "The Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN) provides free support and technical assistance to all grantees of the $2 billion Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College & Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program from the U.S. Department of Labor. For information about TAACCCT, visit http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct."
- H5P Studio from eCampus OntarioH5P is a plugin that enables interactive content like Interactive Videos, Presentations, Games, Quizzes and more for websites and Learning Management Systems including Blackboard. This is a catalog of existing interactive content that can be re-used.
- Smithsonian Open AccessDownload, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo
- Skills CommonsA free and open digital library of workforce training materials.
- WISELearn ResourcesFrom the WI Dept. of Public Instruction, you can search for OER resources and curriculum by subject, education level, and K-12 standards. Content includes online courses, the level of permissions available, and any limits on access (such as sign-up). You can also contribute by creating OER resources through the ISKME Open Author content creation tool.
- Wisc-OnlineWisc-Online is a creation of Wisconsin’s Technical Colleges and maintained by Fox Valley Technical College.
Wisc-Online by Fox Valley Technical College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. - MERLOTFrom website: "MERLOT is a community of staff, volunteers, and members who work together in various ways to provide users of OER (Open Educational Resource) teaching and learning materials with a wealth of services and functions that can enhance their instructional experience."
- PLOSPLOS is a non-profit publisher and advocacy organization focused on science and medicine. Every article they publish is open access. All written content and images are licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution license. Searching through PLOS journals and collections can yield many highly useful images including figures, tables, and graphs.
- LibreTextsAll Libretexts libraries are accessible to everyone via the internet, completely free. There are also a variety or "remixing" tools and courses available.
Find Creative Commons Videos on Youtube
Find openly licensed video content by using the filtered search option and selecting 'Creative Common' under the Features menu.
Find Creative Commons Images on Google Image Search
Find openly licensed images through Google Image Search by selecting 'Tools' then select the needed usage rights from the 'License' drop-down menu.
Vimeo Creative Commons
- Creative Commons VimeoBrowse the Creative Commons licensed videos on Vimeo. Learn about what you can and can't do with other people’s videos on Vimeo to help you share, rework and reuse legally.
Public Domain
Public domain materials are those that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws. This means that the public owns the works, not an individual author, researcher or creator. Anyone can use a public domain work without obtaining permission.
There are four common ways that works arrive in the public domain:
- Copyright expires
- A copyright owner does not renew their copyright
- A copyright owner places their work in the public domain through a process known as “dedication”
- Copyright law does not protect all works, including federal government documents and non-creative works
- Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks within the public domain.
- LibriVoxFree public domain audiobooks
Guide Reuse and Attribution
Open Educational Resources (OER) content is under CC license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License