OERs are materials that you can insert directly into your course. They include learning modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, handouts, simulations, and other learning tools, and cross all disciplines. This section lists some of the key sites for searching OERs around the world.
- OER Commons
Searchable by keyword, subject area, educational level, and resource type. The 50,000+ collection includes full university courses, interactive mini-lessons and simulations, and open textbooks.
- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
MERLOT offers thousands of discipline-specific learning materials which are reviewed, often through a full peer review process, for retention in the collection. Links to specific academic discipline portals.
- MIT OpenCourseWare
Shares all MIT course content. Open textbooks are grouped by department and can be sorted by undergraduate-graduate level, and filtered by features such as student projects, course notes, assessments with solutions, and video lectures.
- Connexions
Collates thousands of learning objects that are organized into textbook-style books in a host of disciplines.
