Open Educational Resources

The Stanford History Education Group is an award-winning research and development group that comprises Stanford faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, and visiting scholars. SHEG seeks to improve education by conducting research, working with school districts, and reaching directly into classrooms with free materials for teachers and students. Find Lesson Plans, Projects, and Publications.

Teaching resources and simulations for HTML5, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Math and beyond.

QUBES is a community of math and biology educators who share resources and methods for preparing students to use quantitative approaches to tackle real, complex, biological problems.

OpenSkill develops open educational resources (Active OER) that foster essential workforce skills as part of a $2.5M funded program by the U.S. Department of Education. The development team includes Arizona State University's Center for Education Through Exploration (ETX) and three community college partners: Maricopa Community Colleges, Ivy Tech Community College, and Miami Dade College.

The Open Skills Network (OSN) is a coalition of employers, education providers, military, and other stakeholders dedicated to advancing skills-based education and hiring. The OSN envisions a world where individuals are trained for in-demand skills and hired for what they can do.

The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program 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 $1.9 billion investment by the US Department of Labor produced a comprehensive collection of workforce-related Open Educational Resources (OER) created by over 700 community colleges across the nation.

The Videos collection depicts the outstanding work of our FWS videographers who have produced outreach and instructional tools available for public access and depicts the outstanding work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its conservation partners. Additional information about National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) videos can be found in the NCTC Video Resource Library.

OER courses by subject/class created for instructors building open courses. Excellent resource.

This WA project offers 81 of Washington's most enrolled courses. There are a lot of great readings in these course files. Great community college content.

On this pages you will find openly licensed textbooks along with supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.

A collection of resources divided into humanities, social science, and STEM categories.

Complete courses from Carnegie Mellon University.

A series of modules in the field of Psychology from Introductory courses to more advanced topics.

OERu offers a number of full courses in fields like business, economics, digital literacy, and history from partner universities around the world.

Inaugurated in 2010 as part of the U.S. Department of Education program, the overall mission of these federally-funded centers is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings.

A list of open textbooks in various subdisciplines of Mathematics approved by the AIM editorial board.

Free medical textbooks.

MERLOT welcomes all language educators and students of World Languages to access the many OER available in the ever-expanding World Languages Collection. This pioneer community contains thousands of OER, many of them peer-reviewed by distinguished scholars in the field.

Lyryx offers high-quality open textbooks in the fields of accounting, mathematics, and economics. They also have optional added (paid) resources such as homeworks and quizzes to accompany the open textbooks.

Materials in the Applied Math and Science Educational Repository are free for use and adaptation. Most resources are at the high school and community college levels.

Learning objects and lessons from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It offers a large collection of peer evaluated websites.

The City University of New York is an established leader in OER and has collaborated with ISKME of OER Commons to select and group their resources.

MyOpenMath is designed for mathematics, providing delivery of homework, quizzes, and tests with rich mathematical content. Students can receive immediate feedback on algorithmically generated questions with numerical or algebraic expression answers.

The NIBLSE community is coordinating an effort to collect, customize, and disseminate high quality bioinformatics learning resources appropriate for undergraduate life science courses. All learning resources have been reviewed and assigned NIBLSE Core Competencies (C1 - C9).

List of approved textbooks, ranging from pre-calculus to upper division analysis and algebra, that have been evaluated by the AIM Editorial Board. Their evaluation criteria are also posted online.

NCBI Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. Also search for other terms within this discipline.

GW School of Nursing collection of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for use by nurse educators worldwide. These interactive multimedia learning materials are outcomes of several grant-funded research projects.

MedEdPORTAL Publications promotes educational scholarship and collaboration by facilitating the open exchange of peer-reviewed health education teaching and assessment resources.

With high-res, downloadable images of iconic works of art, as well as rich editorial content, Artsy is your educational gateway to the world of art.

A pluralist, pro bono, and purely positive web-archive of examples of, links to, and comment on, online, Open Access, film and moving image studies resources of note.

The Writing Spaces' aims to build a library of quality open textbooks for the writing classroom as an alternative to costly textbooks.

The ChemCollective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests.

Simulations from the National Science Foundation covering solubility, kinetics, atomic interactions, gas laws, equilibrium, acid base, photoelectric effect, and atomic emissions.

Videos for undergraduate organic chemistry courses, including lab techniques.

Provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) seeks to encourage the adoption of open source and open access mathematics textbooks. The AIM Editorial Board has developed evaluation criteria to identify the books that are suitable for use in traditional university courses.

"The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education. The collection is now housed at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Digital Library."

Images from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Terms of use information is on their FAQ page and states, "Images are either 'Public Domain' (free use) or 'Copyright Protected' (restricted, obtain permission before use)" - most are public domain, but check individual image information regarding public domain or copyright status.

Essay Clusters are groupings of Writing Spaces content arranged by topic. This feature is meant to help instructors when designing their course and looking for an essay that covers a specific subject area or writing practice. Be sure to check 'Teacher Resources' link in upper right corner.

Science Forward "videos have been produced by Science Forward to support inquiry-based basic science classes. Students, we expect, will watch the videos and come to class with a wider range of basic questions, primed for discussion." To re-use these materials, follow the CC BY NC SA 4.0 permissions.