Open Educational Resources (OER)

The Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching (MERLOT), developed by the California State University Center for Distributed Learning offers access to thousands of open educational materials. NOTE: About 7% of Merlot materials do NOT have a Creative Commons license.

A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.

OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.

The Teaching Commons showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities and makes them available to educators and students around the world.

Try OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) from SUNY Geneseo. Some of the features of OASIS include the ability to limit search results by license, type, subject, source, and reviews available. Through OASIS, you can also suggest new sources to be added to the catalog and/or share items of interest through email.

Free online peer-reviewed publication service for medical resources such as teaching materials, assessment tools and faculty development.

Provides over 1600 open nanotechnology, data and simulation teaching and learning resources: online presentations; course material; learning modules; podcasts; simulation tools.

Contains links to a wide range of multimedia objects form libraries, archives and museums around the United States.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.

Primary materials from countries and cultures around the world, made available online free of charge.