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Open Educational Resources

Open Images

                                                                       

Wikimedia Commons

Features images licensed under Creative Commons and images that lie in the public domain.

Open Icons (The Noun Project)

Over a million curated icons created by a global community.

Flickr - Creative Commons

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license.  This site allows users to browse and search through content under each type of license.

ClipArt

Free clipart you can use for your projects.

NYPL Digital Collections

Explore nearly 800,000 items digitized from the New York Public Library's collections.  This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

Pixabay

Over 1.4 million royalty-free stock photos and videos shared by their generous community.

Unsplash

Beautiful, free photos gifted by the world's most generous community of photographers.

Pexels

Free stock photos and videos you can use anywhere.

Freerange Stock

Free, legally sourced, high-resolution stock images for any kind of use.

Getty Images

Royalty-free images from the world's best photo library.

Dreamstime 

Features royalty-free and public domain images for free download with a free account.

Stockvault

138,000 free photos, textures, and backgrounds.

Open Videos

PBS Learning Media

PBS Learning Media offers teachers more than 100,000 videos, images, interactives, lesson plans, and articles drawn from critically acclaimed PBS programs such as NOVA, Frontline, American Experience, and Sid the Science Kid, as well as from expert content contributors like The National Archives and NASA.

TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.

Youtube Education

Youtube channel of educational videos from educational institutions.

Folkstreams

A non-profit dedicated to finding, preserving, contextualizing, and showcasing documentary films on American traditional cultures.

Openculture

Openculture scours the web for the best educational media.  Includes courses, audio books, and educational videos.

Pexels Videos

Pexels videos makes it easy to find stock footage for your project.  All videos are free for personal and commercial use.

Pixabay Videos

An assortment of stock videos for use for free, with no attribution required.

Videvo

Over 70,000 video clips in 4K and HD that are free to use.

Mixkit

A library of free stock footage and motion clips for every occasion.

Open Music

Bensound

A variety of royalty-free music to download for projects and presentations.  Attribution is required, and the music is not allowed to be remixed.  Music cannot be used for podcasts or audiobooks.

Youtube Royalty-Free Audio Library

Consists of non-copyright music from a variety of sources.  

Silverman Sound Studios 

A variety of free music that may be downloaded in mP3 form at no cost, and used how you wish.

Purple Planet Royalty Free Music

Free mP3 downloadable music that can be used for educational purposes.  Attribution is required.

Mixkit

Royalty-free stock music that can be downloaded for free.

The Free Music Archive

A wide variety of royalty-free music sorted into Creative Commons licenses or the public domain.  You must agree to the terms upon download.

Incompetech

Incompetech has a large variety of royalty-free music to choose from.  All together, there are about 2000 songs, created by musician Kevin Macleod, which you can download for free as long as you credit the musician and the site.

Soundcloud

Soundcloud features a variety of royalty-free music uploaded by amateur musicians and DJ's.

Musopen

This site allows you to browse royalty-free classical music by composer, performer, instrument, tag, form, or time period.

Netlabels

Netlabels is a collection of music at the Internet Archive.  Virtual record labels upload collections of music, and you can download them for free and use them under a Creative Commons license.

Audionautix

Composer/producer Jason Shaw runs Audionautix, and all of his music is offered under a Creative Commons license.  Attribution is required for use of material.

Terms of Use

Unless otherwise noted, MHC's OER website is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.