What are OER repositories?
Repositories are digital libraries and curated collections of free and open educational materials including (but not limited to) openly licensed textbooks, courses, simulations, modules, books, and lesson plans.
Who created the content in the OER repositories?
Faculty and institutions from around the world have authored and peer reviewed most OER. Subject coverage includes a range of academic disciplines for use by higher education faculty and students.
Aggregates existing OER and includes complete courses, homework assignments, and lesson plans.
Devoted to identifying, peer-reviewing, and making available existing OER in a range of academic disciplines.
This repository focuses on the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and mathematics.
Features K-12 science, technology, engineering, and Math (STEM) education.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 114 different sources and contains 440, 250 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
Canadian OER content provided by the Government of Canada.
CBC Curio gives teachers and students streaming access to educational content from CBC and Radio Canada.
Features educational videos uploaded by accredited post-secondary institutions.
Over 50 titles of public domain works that have been created using Pressbooks for online formats.
A selection of OER and classic novels hosted by the City University of New York.
Keep in mind intellectual property rights.
Open educational resources often involve issues relating to intellectual property rights. While most OER are open to use "as is", they do have copyright standards that control the re-use and distribution of existing open resources. These copyright standards are regulated by Creative Commons licenses that are less restrictive than the "all rights reserved" terms of conventional copyright.
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Unless otherwise noted, MHC's OER webpage is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.