Open Educational Resources (OER)
Introduction to OER
- 7 Things You Should Know about OER (Educause)
- Basic Guide to Open Education Resources (UNESCO)
- Brief Introduction to Open Education Resources (video)
- Open Access (MIT Press book by Peter Suber)
- Open Education Handbook
Repositories
- eCampus Ontario Open Library
- eCampus Ontario h5pStudio
- Curriki
- Khan Academy
- Learn Genetics (U of Utah, genetics plus other science disciplines)
- Live Lingua
- Merlot (peer-reviewed, California State)
- MIT Open Courseware
- NanoHub
- National Science Digital Library
- Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project
- OER Commons
- Open Educational Resources Internet Archive
- OpenLearn (Open University)
- Open Learning Initiative (Carnegie Mellon)
- Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank)
- Open Yale Courses
- OpenStax CNX library (Rice University)
- Saylor Academy
- School of Open
- Teaching Commons
- Wiki Educator
- Wikiversity
Textbooks
- BC Open Textbooks
- Open Textbook Library (U of Minnesota)
- SUNY Open Textbooks
- Free Book Centre (science)
- Book Boon
- CK-12
- 2012 Book Archive
Free images
Copyright & legitimate use
Developing OER
Tools
- eCampus Ontario h5pStudio (interactive learning objects)
- eCampus Ontario Pressbooks (textbooks)
- Free Tech for Teachers
- ITunes U (create & distribute a course)
- Public Knowledge Project (open source software for publishing)