Mason OER Metafinder
- Mason OER MetafinderA federated search tool -
A real-time, simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button."
Use ISBN to search for FREE Textbook Alternatives
- Cool4Ed ISBN SearchEnter the ISBN number of your current textbook to find related FREE eTextbooks.
- COOL4Ed (California Open Online Library for Education)Open eTextbooks
Open Course Materials
Open Online Courses
OER Journals & Articles
Link to CSUN OER Guide
OASIS - An Open Content Search Tool
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool, developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library, that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 98 different sources and includes textbooks, courses, audiobooks, videos, books, and more.
Major Searchable Collections for All Subjects
- OER CommonsOER Commons currently includes open educational materials in broad subject areas. Materials include lesson plans, textbooks, activities, assessments, readings, and more.
- MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching"The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools." Browse or keyword search the site.
- PhET: Interactive SimulationsOver 150 math and science simulations. Can search by subject or grade level.
Major Video Collections
- TED TalksCreative Common licensing allows linking to the videos, but you can't modify them. See details at https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-talks-usage-policy#h2--ted-talks-under-creative-commons-license
- YouTubeYouTube makes it very easy to link to and share videos.
Looking for videos to download or remix? After you have done a keyword search, click Filter to narrow your results, such as if the video is licensed under Creative Commons. But there is no method of downloading a video within YouTube. Look in the description for who created the video and go to their website to possibly find a downloadable version.
Open Courses from Major Universities
- Open Yale CoursesBrowse 40 courses. "Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, exams, and problem sets. The lectures are available as downloadable videos, and an audio-only version is also offered. In addition, searchable transcripts of each lecture are provided."
- MIT Open Courseware - Supplemental Resources"These Supplemental Resources do not correspond to a particular MIT class, but are valuable for learners and teachers alike. They include: open textbooks and tools; tutorial and demonstration videos; non-credit short courses and seminars; and classic video courses from the 1960s-1990s"
- Oxford University OER"The gateway to Open Educational Resources and other freely available resources created or selected by tutors of the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education."
- Penn State Earth & Mineral Sciences OER"Launched in 2007, the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' OER initiative enables departments and individual faculty to provide resources free-of-charge under a Creative Commons license. As long as they adhere to the license, teachers and learners around the world are free to download, remix, translate, localize, and make these materials their own."