OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement. With a single point of access from which they can search, browse, and evaluate resources, including textbooks, lessons, videos, and more, in OER Commons’ growing collection.
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. MERLOT does not house content, but is a collection of links to other content. One of the biggest OER repositories, but a bit unwieldy and difficult to search. Use limiting options on the left side of results page.
Hundreds of complete, open college-level textbooks. Many include peer-reviews.
Multi-institutional repository via California State Univ. and MERLOT for OER web-based collections -- texts, exercises, and more -- for Chemistry, Biology, Geosciences, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Social Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Business, Photosciences, and Humanities.
Maryland Open Source Textbook (MOST) Commons is a digital repository of OER. Similar to OER Commons site.
The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program has 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 Open Educational Resources (OER) are produced by community colleges across the nation and can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed and remixed by individuals, institutions, and industry.
Open educational resources from colleges and universities. Part of the Digital Commons Network. Includes search box for keywords searching; also browsable by Institution, Type, and Subject Area.
A project by the University of British Columbia that presents case studies in various disciplines, including Business, Civil Engineering, Conservation, Digital Literacy, Economics, Education, Forestry, Inclusive Practices, Land & Food Systems, Law, Political Science, Public Policy & Global Affairs, Social Justice, and Soil Science. Mostly Canadian examples. Except where otherwise noted, content is licensed CC BY (Creative Commons - Attribution).
Florida's open educational resource repository. Includes open collections for higher education as well as K-12.
Public domain means there is no copyright attached to these materials. This term can refer to both historical resources whose copyright has expired as well as to modern works whose creators have released their materials into the public domain and waived copyright.
Find the full text of classics and public domain works from the first massive ebook-creating organization in existence. Nothing fancy here, just files with the full text.
"The Standard Ebooks project is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks." EPUB and ebook files compatible for multiple ebook devices.
Download 800 free and openly licensed/freely available eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smart phone or ereader. Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
A website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Many are in the public domain. Searchable listings, or browse by author, titles, or subject.
This online collection spans more than 100 years of cinema history, from 1890-1999. Most, but not all, of the featured films are in the public domain, and available to download as well as watch.
Links to over 1000 free movies online, many of which are in the public domain. Includes classic, indies, noir, westerns, etc. Organized by genre and title.
All images and videos on Pixabay are released under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) public domain license. Searchable by keyword or by type (video, illustration, photo, etc.).
All images on this repository site are licensed under the CC0 public domain license.
Photos and images on this site have a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) public domain license. Searchable by keyword or by categories.
Unsplash photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) public domain license. Searchable by keyword or by collections.
Collection from Vice. "A stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. This collection aims to help media better represent members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities—people with careers, relationships, talents, passions, and home lives." CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons - Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives) license.
Flickr hosts millions of Creative Commons-licensed images. Notably, Flickr provides a separate Creative Commons licensed videos collection. Search tip: After searching with a keyword, click the "Any license" filter to narrow down to images with different kinds of open licenses.
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository that is completely dedicated to providing educational media that are released either in the public domain or under Creative Commons license. Search tip: To check the license information on any image, scroll down the page to the Licensing section.
Search for free images in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.
Morguefile is a free photo archive. The site was created to serve as a free image exchange for creative professionals and teachers to use in their work. Search Tip: Search by keyword and then click on the license link for more specific info on how to use that image.
TED Videos have a CC BY NC ND 4.0 license, and TED encourages users to freely view, share, and download the videos without restraint. The website is provided as a public service to promote the spread of good ideas.
TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed Originals are short, award-winning animated videos about ideas that spark the curiosity of learners everywhere.
Khan Academy provides top-quality educational videos that are organized by discipline and skill levels. They provide videos from various disciplines including Math, Science, Economics, Finance, and Humanities.
YouTube provides millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos (among their billions of video collections). The key is filtering them to isolate the Creative Commons-licensed ones.
Like YouTube, Vimeo hosts millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos. In addition, Vimeo provides a separate Creative Commons licensed video collection which makes the filtering process much easier.
A shared digital video collection, managed by School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Includes video collections from NASA, National Arcives, Internet Moving Images Archive, and more. Search by keyword or browse videos by genre, duration, color, and sound. Most videos are from government agencies and under public domain.
This online collection spans more than 100 years of cinema history, from 1890-1999. Most, but not all, of the featured films are in the public domain, and available to download as well as watch.
Links to over 1000 free movies online, many of which are in the public domain. Includes classic, indies, noir, westerns, etc. Organized by genre and title.
Open-source films (also known as open-content films and free-content films) are films which are produced and distributed by using free and open-source and open content methodologies. Their sources are freely available.
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. There is a FAQs page for Educators.
Massive lists of public domain music and songs, as well as royalty free music. From the Public Domain Information Project site.
Listen to music, interviews, field recordings, and more from the Library's historic sound recording collections.
Download hundreds of free and openly licensed audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Includes fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
This is a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses.
Offers free sound clips for download in either wav or mp3 format. Each sound clip has license information, so look for that column when determining license and usage.
List of free/open source sound websites
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