Open Educational Resources (OER)
Section I: Textbooks
1. Orange Grove Open Textbooks:
http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/hierarchy.do?topic=d37c6ed5-3822-84a6721c-6d9033a88541&page=1 (note: you may see an option to “buy” the book, but click
under “links to resources” to get the free PDF instead)
2. Open Textbook Library: http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
3. College Open Textbooks:
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/open-textbooks-bysubject
4. Open Stax: https://openstaxcollege.org/books
5. Community College Consortium: http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/
6. Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/
7. Flat World Knowledge: http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/
Section II: Repositories
1. Learning Objects (lesson plans, handouts, etc)
a. MERLOT: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
b. Orange Grove: http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/home.do
c. Open Course Library: http://opencourselibrary.org/
d. OER Commons: https://www.oercommons.org/oer
2. Videos
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Shambles: http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/videoOL/
Short Films Online: http://www.indiefilmpage.com/short.html
Folkstreams.net: http://www.folkstreams.net/
The Open Video Project: http://www.open-video.org/index.php
Library of Congress: American Memory Project (multimedia):
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Internet Archive (movie archive): http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Annenberg Media: http://www.learner.org/
Free Online Education: http://education.jimmyr.com/
Online Video Guide: http://www.ovguide.com/
Nature: Online Video Streaming Archive:
http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/index.html
Nova: Watch Online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/
You Tube: http://youtube.com/
Free Science Videos and Lectures: http://www.freesciencelectures.com/
TED talks: https://www.oercommons.org/oer
3. Lectures
a. Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/
b. MIT Open Courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
c. MOOCs (Coursera, EdX, Udacity)
4. Photos
a. Google Images: https://images.google.com (“search tools” / “usage rights”)
b. Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/ (“advanced search” / Creative Commons”)
c. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
d. StockVault: http://www.stockvault.net/
e. EveryStockPhoto: http://www.everystockphoto.com/
f. FreeDigitalPhotos: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
g. TurboPhoto: http://www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images/
h. U.S. Government: http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
Additional Photo Sites (Alphabetical)
i. BurningWell: http://www.burningwell.org/
j. Cepolina: http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/
k. DesignPack: http://www.designpacks.com/Image_Catalog/
l. Digital Dreamers: http://www.adigitaldreamer.com/gallery/index.php
m. FreeFoto.com: http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
n. FreeImages: http://www.freeimages.com/
o. FreeImages.Co: http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
p. FreeMediaGoo: http://www.freemediagoo.com/
q. FreePhotosBank: http://www.freephotosbank.com/
r. FreeRange: http://freerangestock.com/
s. FromOldBooks: http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
t. ImageAfter: http://www.imageafter.com/
u. Kavewall: http://www.kavewall.com/stock/
v. Lensicle: http://www.lensicle.com/
w. MorgueFile: http://www.morguefile.com/
x. OpenStockPhotography: http://www.openstockphotography.org/
y. Photocase: http://www.photocase.com/
z. PixelPerfectDigital: http://pixelperfectdigital.com/galleries/
aa. Unprofound: http://www.unprofound.com/