Open Educational Resources

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Applied Math and Science Educational RepositoryMath and Science AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services built for free for anyone to use.
Arizona State University’s ASU for You A rich online source of free educational resources curated by the Arizona State University that include teacher toolkits with lesson ideas, podcasts and videos, access to virtual field trips and fun features such as "Ask an Anthropologist" and "Ask a Biologist".
BBC Bitesize BBC's free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom designed to aid pupils in both schoolwork, and for older pupils, exams.
BCcampusMultidisciplinary BCcampus is a publicly funded organization that aims to unify and support the adaptation and evolution of teaching and learning practices in post-secondary institutions through collaboration, communication, and innovation.
BrainPOPK-12 Provides learners information and free access to resources. Has content for several subjects in different formats (including video and audio), in different languages and different grades.
Ck12K-12 Provides free and customizable K12 open educational resources.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational ResourcesMultidisciplinary CCCOER is a joint effort by the OER Center for California, Foothill-De Anza Community College District, the League for Innovation in the Community College and many other community colleges and university partners to develop and use open educational resources (OER) and especially open textbooks in community college courses.
ACM Digital LibraryComputer Science A research, discovery and networking platform containing the full-text collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books. A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.
Directory of Open Educational ResourcesMultidisciplinary A product of the Commonwealth universities and educational institutions that provides OER (open education resources) for Higher Education, Open Schooling, Teacher Education, Technical and Vocational Skills Development.
DepEd CommonsK-10 Contains online review materials and Open Educational Resources (OER) authored by public school teachers who are subject matter experts.
DepEd Learning Resources Portal An extensive web-based collection of digitized and contextualized teaching and learning materials and professional development resources developed by DepEd and other education partners, including a full suite of teachers’ guides, leveled readers and storybooks developed by USAID’s Basa Pilipinas project.
DepEd Open Educational ResourcesMultidisciplinary DepEd Commons is an online platform for public school teachers to support distance learning modalities which can be accessed to continue the delivery of basic education to our children.
DepEd PPT PresentationsK-10 Online resource for anything teaching related, they offer free to download PowerPoint Presentations.
DepEd WorkbooksK-10 An alternative platform where open sourced materials are prepared and uploaded by educators. Pupils can readily access it and enjoy its educational benefits such as quizzes, workbooks and readings.
Education Development Center An online collection of educational resources for early childhood development and literacy and numeracy teaching and learning.
EducationLinks USAID’s resource for all education practitioners to learn and share knowledge and create and implement successful, effective education and skills development programs.
EpicK-12 A digital library for children below 12 years (35,000 books, learning videos, quizzes & more).
Free Online Course MaterialsMultidisciplinary Free Online Course Materials is a California State University MERLOT collection of over 35,000 open course materials.
Follett eLearningK-12 and Interest level On this site, Destiny Discover search engine can be used to find educational content appropriate for a variety of purposes, across grade and interest levels. It includes variety of free eBooks, collections of resources curated and shared by Follett customers throughout the world, articles from free research and journalistic databases.
Internet ArchiveMultidisciplinary Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Learning Resource ExchangeMultidisciplinary A European Schoolnet (EUN) product, this enables schools to find educational content from many different countries and providers.
Lumen LearningMultidisciplinary This OER-focused company provides open courses with "zero textbook cost." Their curriculum comes with all the OER students will require.
MerlotMultidisciplinary 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.
NASA STEM Engagement A section in NASA’s website full of innovative and informative educational materials that engage student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics that are aligned with the STEM curriculum; content is searchable by subject, grade level, type and keyword.
National Geographic Original content that inspires family exploration through quizzes, videos, science experiment and at-home classroom resources.
OER CommonsMultidisciplinary OER Commons was created as a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing.
OER Knowledge CloudMultidisciplinary The OER Knowledge Cloud is a curated database and repository to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate documents related to open educational resources. There are currently 2629 published records by 4362 authors from 921 sources, with 1551 file archives.
Openly Available Sources Integrated SearchMultidisciplinary OASIS is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 97 different sources and contains 385,629 records.
Open Access Publishing in European NetworksMultidisciplinary OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication.
Open Course LibraryMultidisciplinary OCL is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts.
Open Educational Resources for Teacher EducationTeacher Education The University of Cambridge's guide on Open Educational Resources for Teacher Education (ORBIT).
Open LearnMultidisciplinary OpenLearn is a free learning platform, delivered by The Open University as part of its Royal Charter commitment to support the wellbeing of the community.
OpenStaxMultidisciplinary OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a nonprofit charitable corporation published high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.
Open Textbook LibraryMultidisciplinary Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. The library currently includes 717 textbooks, with more being added all the time.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) A compilation of research and actionable insights to aid policy and programming for better lives, includes policy briefs, analyses and toolkits on distance learning.
PBS Learning Media Curated content of free, (US) standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans and activities.
PhETK-12 Free science and math simulations for teaching STEM topics, including physics, chemistry, biology, and free interactive math and science simulations.
Project MuseHumanities & Social Sciences A leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world. It has been the trusted and reliable source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading universities and scholarly societies. Project MUSE has over 700 journals from 125 publishers and offers over 60,000 books from more than 100 presses.
Routledge Handbooks OnlineMultidisciplinary An invaluable educational resource bringing together the world’s leading scholars to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research from Routledge, and CRC Press, in the Humanities, Social sciences, Education, Psychology, Engineering, and Built environment. Every title within Routledge Handbooks Online is surrounded with meaningful metadata and abstracts at a chapter level, making it fully searchable and browsable, providing a functionality of greater value to the student and researcher.
Science in SchoolScience Science in School contents include teaching materials and projects in science education, up-to-date information on cutting-edge science, interviews with inspiring scientists and teachers, reviews of books and other resources, and many other useful resources for science teachers. Online articles are published in many European languages, but the print version is only in English.
SiyavulaMultidisciplinary Produces textbooks as OER through a sponsorship model.
Taylor and FrancisMultidisciplinary one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks, reference works, and databases, our content spans all areas of the humanities, social sciences, behavioral sciences, science, technology, and medicine.
USAID PhilippinesK-12 Free educational resources for parents, guardians, and teachers to get children ready for learning at home.
World Digital LibraryMultidisciplinary WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
World Health Organization WHO is bringing the world’s scientists and global health professionals together to accelerate the research and development process, and develop new norms and standards to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and help care for those affected.

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