Open Education Resources

Open course materials curated and expertly designed into downloadable courses for BC educators. Currently includes Intro to Management, Intro to Marketing, and Business Communications I & II, with more being developed.

SkillsCommons is a free and open online library 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.

Collects and shares learning resources (e.g., documents, audio/video clips, simulations, learning modules, and assessments) for North Carolina teachers from elementary school to college. Provides a guest login. As guests, you only have access to the items in the collection that have been made available to the public.

Includes everything from ABE math tests to open medical terminology resources.

Free interactive, research-based math and science simulations to engage students by learning through exploration and discovery via an intuitive, game-like environment.

Colorado Community College's top 40 OER Curation Guides. Materials have been curated from a variety of sources by librarians and vetted for content and alignment by subject matter experts. Very useful for developing your own OER/ZTC course. Material included in these documents may include open courses, open textbooks, and/or sections of open content that is mapped to specific outcomes/competencies or items in the topical outline found in Colorado’s Common Course Numbering System.

The Tapestry Tool allows instructors and students to share in the co-creation of course material via the creation of a ‘tapestry.’ Tapestries allow students to view and interact with content in a non-linear fashion and make visual connections across topics–affordances that are missing in other learning platforms.

Includes large number of open sources for general multimedia, audio, images, videos

A comprehensive list of image collections that are either in the Public Domain or Creative Commons licensed.

Includes a variety of media.

Filter results by usage rights i.e. "free to use or share"

Freely usable media files (images, audio, video). Check the image summary for details on permitted use.

Searchable database of Creative Commons licensed images under Getty’s Open Content Program.

Use advanced search and select Creative Commons licensed images.

California State University IMAGE Project, containing approximately 100,000 images, global in coverage and including all areas of visual imagery.

Free images available with a CC0 (public domain - available to use freely for any legal purpose).

Free high-resolution stock photos with a CC0 (public domain) depicting a wide variety of subjects. Incudes attribution in download file.

Free high-resolution stock photos with a CC0 (public domain) depicting a wide variety of subjects.

The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 19 museums and the National Zoo—shaping the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Includes large number of open sources for general multimedia, audio, images, videos

Select 'video is available for free to be downloaded, shared, and remixed'.

Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts.

Contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.

Find videos or short lectures on math, biology, chemistry, physics, humanities, finance and history.

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).

An open access educational video lectures repository. Lectures are given by scholars and scientists at events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of science.

A browse-able collection of Creative Commons licensed videos.

YouTube allows content creators to add a creative commons license to their videos.

A repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Created and sponsored by UNC's School of Library & Info Science. Archival videos include storyboards but no closed captions.

Videvo offers stock video footage and motion graphics for use in any project, commercial or non-commercial, through use of its own license or CC 3.0 license.

Open course materials curated and expertly designed into downloadable courses for BC educators. Currently includes Intro to Management, Intro to Marketing, and Business Communications I & II, with more being developed.

Extensive list of open courses and collections of open courses.

Find videos or short lectures on math, biology, chemistry, physics, humanities, finance and history.

An education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.

Interactive online classes and MOOCs from some of the world's top universities, including MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, and UTx.

Free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale.

Open web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.

Collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs.