LibGuides: Affordable &amp; Open Educational Resources (A&amp;OER): Search for OER

OER Commons, MOBIUS Hub & the STLCC Group

OER Commons and MOBIUS Hub
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. The MOBIUS OER Hub was created to support the affordability and OER initiatives of our member institutions, promote collaboration between members on issues related to OER, and develop a consortium-wide repository of high quality OER content for faculty use, increasing academic success and reducing costs for students across the consortium.
STLCC Group, MOBIUS Hub on OER Commons
The STLCC Group is part of the MOBIUS OER Hub on OER Commons and serves as college’s repository for open educational resources. Register to create an account. Resources that you create, customize, or adopt can be posted here. OER resources found in OER Commons or other repositories can be added.

Search Tools, Collections

Canvas Commons
Canvas Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources. A digital library full of educational content, Commons allows Canvas users to share learning resources with other users as well as import learning resources into a Canvas course.Search by title, name, institution and filter by newest, most downloaded, or favorited.
Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
Simultaneously search multiple OER repositories. Metasearch tool developed by OER experts at George Mason University. "Real-time federated search for OER content across 21 resources."
OASIS
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 98 different sources. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
OER Commons
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. The MOBIUS OER Hub was created to support the affordability and OER initiatives of our member institutions, promote collaboration between members on issues related to OER, and develop a consortium-wide repository of high quality OER content for faculty use, increasing academic success and reducing costs for students across the consortium.
MERLOT's Advanced Material Search
The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers. Locate your discipline; business, arts, education, humanities, math, statistics, science, technology, social sciences OR locate by type of material; animations, assessment, assignments, case studies, drill and practice, open textbook, quiz/test, tutorials and more.
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MERLOT does not house content, but is a collection of links to other content. The materials can be ranked and many are peer-reviewed. There are discipline specific communities that curate and review the content.
SkillsCommons, Workforce Development Digital Library
Free and Open Workforce Training Materials for 21st Century Employment. Browse by industry, credentials & material type | Advanced search | Showcases
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The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program created a free and open online library called SkillsCommons containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. The $1.9 billion investment by the US Department of Labor produced a comprehensive collection of workforce-related Open Educational Resources (OER) created by over 700 community colleges across the nation. The OER can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed and remixed by an individual, institution, and industry for FREE with the proper attribution to the original author of the resources.

SkillsCommons.org was designed and managed by the California State University Long Beach (CSULB) and its MERLOT program for the Department of Labor’s TAACCCT program under a 4+ year cooperative agreement.

Open Textbook Collections

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
A clearinghouse of links to books hosted in various locations, and includes a large selection of international textbooks.
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The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Europena Collections
Explore 57,603,456 artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives. Use filters to the left of a search results page. To find an item with the Creative Commons licensing you prefer, look for the "Can I use it" icon.
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Once you have selected the items you want you will be redirected to the website of the institution that owns the item, and these sites may not have English translations.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Intech
IntechOpen, Open Access Science Books
IntechOpen is a leading publisher of Open Access science books; built by scientists, for scientists. View 3,800 peer-reviewed Open Access books
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More info at: https://www.intechopen.com
Submit your work to IntechOpen. We’re endorsed by Web Of Science, the world’s leading citation index. The authors who publish with us range from globally-renowned Nobel Prize winners to up-and-coming researchers at the cutting edge of scientific discovery. We’d love for you to be one of them.
List of Open Textbook networks, Community College Consortium for OER
Lumen OER Course Catalog
Access digital content and supplemental materials with ease; complete customizable courses in more than 60 subjects...read link below: Lumen: What We Offer.
Lyryx Learning
Lyryx provides open educational resources (OER) and services to complement your course instruction in the subjects of: Mathematics, Statistics, Accounting and Economics.
OER Course Materials
Lumien Learning provides access to Candela (affordable e-books with curated text, video, interactives, and other learning materials); Waymaker (combines enriched OER with personalized learning tools that improve faculty-student connections; and Lumen OHM. Scroll down the page to explore some of Lumen’s leading OER courses in high-enrollment subjects using Waymaker and OHM.
Online Learning Initiative (OLI)
OLI aims to improve education at every level, everywhere, as part of The Simon Initiative. OLI provides dozens of college-level courses, and a platform that enables research and experimentation with any aspect of the learning experience.
Open Access Publishing in European Networks
The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN has books in multiple languages and covering a large variety of topics. There is a range of licensing for the books; each book is clearly marked with the license.
OpenEd, BC Campus
OpenEd - Find Open Textbooks written specifically for the BC OpenTextbook initiative, as well as books from other sources.
OpenStax, Subjects
Peer-reviewed. Openly licensed. 100% Free. Review our OpenStax textbooks and decide if they are right for your course. Simple to adopt, free to use. We make it easy to improve student access to higher education.
OpenStax CNX
View and share free educational material in small modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports or other academic assignments.
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Books are available in multiple formats (PDF, print on demand, on the Web) and are licensed to be revised and remixed by faculty who want create a custom solution for a course. There are tens of thousands of learning objects, called pages, that are organized into thousands of textbook-style books in a host of disciplines, all easily accessible online and downloadable to almost any device, anywhere, anytime.
Milne Open Textbooks (formerly Open SUNY Textbooks)
Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library is the Open Textbook Network's catalog of OER textbooks, including faculty reviews. STLCC is a member, through MOBIUS.
OPENUMB, at UMass Boston
The Orange Grove, Florida's Open Educational Resource Repository
Organized by Open Collections; Higher Education Resources; K-12 Resources and Institution Collections
Project Gutenberg, Free ebooks
A volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works. Most items in this collection are digitized works from the public domain, making it a rich source for those in the Humanities

Open courses, MOOCs, and lectures

MOOC stands for Massively Open Online Courses. These sites offer non-credit courses to the public. Many are free; some require payment for access; some are free to access but require payment for certification of completion.

Alison
Offers over 1000 courses in 195 countries. Alison is free of charge. They are a business – albeit a socially-focused one. Alison is a social enterprise and makes money through advertising, merchandise, and the sale of Certificates and Diplomas, should a graduate choose to buy one.
Canvas Network
Canvas Network offers a changing collection of MOOCs using the Canvas platform, which some institutions also use for credit-bearing courses.
Class2Go
From Stanford University.
Codecademy
Learn computer programming at beginner to advanced levels on this very interactive website with social media support. No downloads are required.
Coursera
Coursera partners with universities to offer free interactive courses, including video lectures and homework assignments. Although not for credit, these are actual courses with schedules and deadlines.
EdX
Open courses from MIT, Harvard, and other universities; mostly computer-related and sciences.
GCFLearnFree.org
Offers more than 200 topics, including more than 7,000 lessons, more than 1,000 videos, and more than 50 interactives and games, completely free.
Harvard Open Courses: Open Learning Initiative
Harvard University Extension School; a limited number of full online non-credit courses are open to the public.
Khan Academy
A large collection of short educational videos with practice exercises and assessments. Extensive coverage of K-12 and higher-level math and science topics. Also includes finance, statistics, art history, and test preparation.
MERLOT (https://www.merlot.org/)
A free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community. Recommended for Business, Education, Music, Political Science and Sociology subject areas.
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MERLOT does not house content, but is a collection of links to other content. The materials can be ranked and many are peer-reviewed. There are discipline specific Communities that curate and review the content.
Microsoft Virtual Academy
Hundreds of Microsoft training courses, in 14 different languages.
MIT Video
Massachusetts Institute of Technology collection of online videos. Some are lectures by faculty and guest speakers including renowned scientists and public leaders; others are brief educational films.
Online College Courses
This website pulls together descriptions & links to courses from many open course sites.
Open Culture
Open Culture includes links to free courses, MOOCs, textbooks, and educational books and films.
Open Learning Initiative
Carnegie Mellon; some free and open courses are offered; they also offer fee-based instructional materials for educators.
Open Yale Courses
Yale University; recorded lectures in video, audio, or text for full undergraduate introductory courses in a variety of subject disciplines.
Saylor Academy
College and professional courses - some for credit from partner institutions.
UCTV: University of California Television
University of California; a website and television station of educational programming including interviews, documentaries, and lectures at University of California campuses. Many of the programs are organized by topic and can be watched on demand.
Udacity
Udacity's focus is on courses related to computer software development.

Videos, Simulations, & Learning Objects

BC Campus Open Education Project
BC Campus is supported by the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education. The Open Education Project provides and advocates for free, open textbooks.
Canvas Commons
Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources. A digital library full of educational content, Commons allows Canvas users to share learning resources with other users as well as import learning resources into a Canvas course.
Crash Course
Educational videos on a variety of topics. (YouTube channel)
Ed Ted
Video lessons on various topics
Educational Games, Nobel Prize Organization
A collection of video games for physical sciences.
Find OER, Open Professionals Education Network
OER come in a wide variety of types. Many educators are simply looking for individual media elements to use within their courses, such as photos, graphics, videos, audio, and lectures, that are openly licensed in a way that freely permits education use.
Google Search Education
Google supplies lesson plans, trivia search challenges, brief videos and PowerPoint presentations and "power search" courses.
HippoCampus
Multimedia content for middle school through college level courses. Emphasis is on STEM subjects and college readiness.
Open Culture
Free, cultural media on the web. Find movies, audiobooks, and ebooks.
Open Learning Initiative
Includes virtual labs. Normally $25/student but cost is waived for institutions impacted by COVID-19 accommodations.
SpongeLab, a global science community
Interactive OER science simulations that can be stitched together to create virtual labs.
Study.com
Short, free videos with quizzes organized into "courses" for popular college-level topics.
Teaching Commons
Portal to open education resources from colleges and universities.
Visionlearning
National Science Foundation; includes a library of STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) subject learning modules that can be used by teachers and students with free registration. Can be used without registration as a science reference site. Includes graphic animations to illustrate concepts.
Wisc-Online
Learning objects that can be used individually or combined in clusters. Includes a game-maker and educational games.