A&OER: Affordable & Open Educational Resources

Includes many formats, including video, audio, image, and text resources.

Portal to open course materials and video lectures from many prominent colleges and universities.

American Memory provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. This digital record of American history and creativity, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America.

Contains award-winning multimedia resources, including apps, animations, videos, interactives, and virtual labs, focused on brining the excitement of scientific discovery into the classroom. They can be used in a flipped, blended, or traditional classroom.

COERLL's mission is to produce and disseminate OER such as online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc. Site currently has OER for 17 languages including Arabic, English, Chinese, French, German, and Spanish.

The ChemCollective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests. Teachers can use our content for pre-labs, for alternatives to textbook homework, and for in-class activities for individuals or teams. Students can review and learn chemistry concepts using our virtual labs, simulations, and tutorials.

Primarily first- and second-year college/university resources.

The Concord Consortium focuses on discovering, developing and disseminating innovative technology for a new generation of STEM-literate learners, workers and citizens. Site includes interactive simulations, cutting-edge sensors, innovative assessments and technology-based curricula.

The Encyclopedia of Life brings together information about all life on Earth—one web page for each specie(>1.9 million species pages). Included are text, images, video, sounds, maps, classifications, etc., all freely available online.

Provides a video archive of interviews with over 20 leading researchers in the field, along with a set of demonstrations. All videos and demonstrations are freely accessible. By signing up (no cost, just provide e-mail) a user can get access to members-only materials that may be helpful as well.

Well-known source of high quality, freely accessbile practice exercises and instructional videos. Subject coverage includes math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.

The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings.

"The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education. We envision a world where everyone, everywhere has access to the education they need to build their futures."

TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. TED-Ed Originals are short animated videos about ideas that spark the curiosity of learners. These original animated videos, paired with questions and resources, make up what are called TED-Ed Lessons.

WebWorK is an open-source online homework system for math and science courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems. Problems in the NPL target most lower division undergraduate math courses and some advanced courses. Supported courses include college algebra, discrete mathematics, probability and statistics, single and multivariable calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and complex analysis. WebWork is open source and able to be set up for free on an institution's server, or can be hosted by MAA for a small fee

While the College Open Textbook Collaborative focuses on providing textbooks for Community Colleges, many of the resources they have peer-reviewed would be usable for lower-division undergraduate coursework.

The DPLA is an all-digital library that aggregates metadata for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Material which is out of copyright or openly-licensed is available in full.

A resource for open digital textbooks across a wide variety of disciplines.

The "largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine." As of this writing, includes 2420 books and 6 journals.

A free publication service by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) of peer-reviewed medical education materials. Licensed under Creative Commons open licenses.

"Wikibooks is a Wikimedia project for collaboratively writing open-content textbooks" being developed in a similar process to how Wikipedia was developed.

A directory of the University of Missouri Press books available with Open Access via the MOspace institutional repository.

"Through the initiative, faculty can receive a stipend up to $5,000 to develop or adopt an alternate to a traditional textbook. This process may involve using a range of resources across different media (articles, video, audio, websites) or the use of an existing open access textbook."

"This pilot initiative encourages instructors to use low-cost or free alternatives to expensive course materials; these can include open-access scholarly resources, Library-licensed and owned resources, and learning objects and texts that faculty create themselves. Awards are available of $1,000 each for instructors teaching courses with enrollments of fewer than two hundred students and of $2,500 each for instructors teaching courses with enrollments of more than two hundred students."

Emory Libraries and Information Technologies provides mini-grants of $1,000 for faculty to produce OERs, library resources, or other faculty-generated content to be used in lieu of a textbook in courses in the upcoming academic term.

" OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers."

"Featuring Harvard faculty, the noncredit courses are open to the public. You do not need to register to view the lecture videos."

From Johns Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public Health. "JHSPH sees OCW as an important component of the School’s mission (Protecting Health, Saving Lives - Millions at a Time). OCW is true to JHSPH's values of excellence, innovation and leadership. JHSPH OCW contributes to the 'shared intellectual commons' in academia, which fosters collaboration across JHSPH and among other scholars across disciplines and around the world."

"MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity."

"Open.Michigan encourages researchers, learners, and instructors to maximize the impact and reach of their scholarly work through open sharing. In other words, you create and we help you share."

The State University of New York System. "There are currently seven SUNY MOOCs running on the Coursera platform covering the topics of: non-profits, metaliteracy, elearning, and computational arts."

"Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn."

"Tufts' course offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities."

"The University launched its OpenCourseWare initiative in November 2006. Since then, it has rapidly grown to become one of the premiere sites in the United States. Today, its YouTube channel, is viewed more than a million minutes per month. Its OpenChem project comprises video lectures and more equivalent to the lectures in an undergraduate chemistry degree."