RichmondCC Library: Open Educational Resources: Finding OER

These resources will lead you to free educational materials.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is an aggregator of online tools, built by and for higher education instructors. Advanced functions allow you to filter results by discipline, material type, and audience. Users form subject specific communities to curate and share content.

Open NCCC is an online repository of OER materials, supported by the North Carolina Community College System. Built from OER Commons to serve NCCCs, this is a fantastic place to look for materials tailored to community colleges in our state.

OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print. By switching to OpenStax textbooks, you can reduce or eliminate textbook costs for your students.

PLoS (Public Library of Science)

PLoS
PLOS is a nonprofit, open access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

Free Images

Open Clip Art
Openclipart is an online collection of scalable images designed to be re-sized and re-imaged. All images on openclipart are released under public domain licensing.
Pixabay
All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.
Unsplash
Free stock images uploaded by photographers.
WikiMedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.