Media Mania: OERs

Find OER materials for your class here!

A guide from our Library on OER basics.

Fill out the online form to create an attribution for Open Educational Resources (OERs) that you find.

Open Educational Resources Network (OPEN) Washington contains training on finding and using Open Educational Resources (OERs). Site is managed by the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.

"The Open Washington hub came to be out of a demand for a localized repository with rich collaborating, sharing, and evaluation tools. This hub is a dedicated repository for OER shared by our system or created through Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC)-sponsored projects."

"...you simply enter in the URL of the [Flickr] picture page (as seen in your browser) you are interested in and ImageCodr.org will generate the ready to use HTML code. It will also display a brief and easy license summary, so you don't get in legal trouble because you missed something."

Fill out the online form to create an attribution for Open Educational Resources (OERs) that you find.

Infographic created by Med Kharbach.

From CampusTechnology.com

Post by Richard Byrne on 08/20/15 on his blog "Free Technology for Teachers".

By Joyce Valenza.

Scoop.It list about Open Educational Resources curated by Elizabeth E. Charles.

By Jeff Hurt posted on VelvetChainsaw.com

From the federal government's Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology.

From UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization).

Written by Boyoung Chae and Mark Jenkins. Published by the SBCTC in 2015.

Cherry Lake Publishing book about copyright and Creative Commons by Emily Puckett Rodgers and Kristin Fontichiaro.

Posted by Nicole Comforto on 07/27/15 at Edudemic.com

By Danny Stieben for MakeUseOf.com

From DitchThatTextbook.com

"All of the photos that you will find on the websites below are free to use for commercial purposes, without asking permission or they need attribution so make sure you check before you use a photo."

"Boundless creates affordable and effective online textbooks and learning tools that improve education for millions of students and educators. The company’s high quality textbooks align to hundreds of popular college textbooks in 20+ subjects. Boundless integrates custom learning technology into all its premium books to help students study more efficiently at a fraction of the cost of traditional textbooks."

Boundless provides ready-to-use content, tools, and test materials to make teaching more efficient and learning more effective.

"70 million+ learning experiences delivered and counting… 5000+ concepts learned through 15,000+ resources."

"Most of the textbooks on this list have Creative Commons (CC) open licenses or GNU-Free Document License. Others are U.S. government documents in the public domain (PD). Many other textbooks are free to view online but are NOT OPEN for reuse and customization. See Copyrighted Digital Textbooks for a list of learning content without open licenses."

Small OER modules that can be combined into larger texts, from Rice University.

By Joyce Valenza.

Creative Commons Search Engine for images.

Search for graphics and music with creative commons licensing. "Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license. You should always verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link."

Finding Open Educational Resources (OER) by OPEN (Open Professionals Education Network). This is the BEST one-stop resources to search for open educational resources.

Post dated 01/2015 on the Educational Technology and Mobile Learning website.

Contains over 14 million public domain historical images extracted from public domain books.

"Jorum is the place where you will find free open educational resources produced by the UK Further and Higher Education community."

"The Learning Registry makes all of these activities easier by acting as an aggregator of metadata—data about the learning resources available online—including the publisher, location, content area, standards alignment, ratings, reviews, and more. The Learning Registry is a joint effort of the Department of Education and the Department of Defense, with support of the White House and numerous federal agencies, non-profit organizations, international organizations and private companies."

Free public domain audio books that have been recorded by volunteers.

Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. No registration required.

"Musopen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on increasing access to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions."

By Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers.

"The Library now makes it possible to download such items in the highest resolution available directly from the Digital Collections website."

Over 25,000 black & white public domain/Creative Commons licensed icons that are free to download and use by properly attributing the icon designer. Black and white icons can be colorized using something like Inkscape.org

"Free Access to 2,011,936 Academic Articles".

"The best free cultural & educational media on the web."

By RTC eLearning Director Liz Falconer.

Thousands of images of the national parks available in a searchable database. Most are public domain images.

Free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. Also lists photos from Shutterstock.com that have to be paid for.

"Search now to download properly attributed, Creative Commons images for school!"

Pics4Learning is a curated image library that is copyright safe and free for teachers and students. You can use the copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for classroom projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting.

"Uniquely free photos. Handpicked, non-stocky images. Yours to use as you wish."

Repository of workforce education curriculum and materials with CC BY Creative Commons licensing.

From Med Kharbach, the founder and editor of "Educational Technology and Mobile Learning".

From Dan Leeman's 7/9/14 post on the Edublogger.

Vintage public domain images.