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California State University MERLOT collection of over 35,000 open course materials with an easy-to-use interface that searches for free course materials, courses, and textbooks
Find open textbooks, courses, and materials for the most common undergraduate courses; includes suggestions for open textbooks, including reviews by California faculty
Browse a collection of vibrant texts uploaded to the CUNY Manifold platform. You can find a broad range of projects here, including original scholarship undergoing peer review, teaching handbooks, collaborative student projects, and customized course versions of texts and textbooks in the public domain.
A portal to records for over 5 million of photographs, manuscripts, books, sound files, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States, as well as a platform that allows developers to create new learning tools or apps from the DPLA objects
"GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials."
"A peer-reviewed, open-access journal that promotes educational scholarship and dissemination of teaching and assessment resources in the health professions."
Provides access to thousands of nanotechnology resources including animations, data sets, learning modules, presentations, teaching materials, and online classes.
A single point of access to over 42,000 vetted and fully-indexed OER, offering engagement with resources for curriculum alignment, quality evaluation, social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing; use Advanced Search to find OER by subject area, education level, and type of use
"A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download."
"OKR is an open access repository for materials created by the World Bank organization. Most materials adhere to various OER community standards and are distributed with a CC BY license. This repository emphasizes materials related to business, global economies, world development, and related topics."
"The ‘Learn with OLI’ tab is a good place to start, to see the range of courses that is offered. ‘Studying Effectively’ (at the time of writing, it’s at the bottom of the home page) will give you an idea of the learning strategy that OLI proposes, including ‘learn by doing’."
Free educational material in small modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, or other academic assignments. Open textbooks in many disciplines
"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."
"Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books, journals, and digital humanities works from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-profit academic publishers."
"ScholarlyCommons is the University of Pennsylvania's open access institutional repository for gathering, indexing, storing, and making widely available the scholarly output of the Penn community."
"Most books available here are in the Public Domain unless otherwise noted, and are therefore free to download, use, re-use, and re-mix without regard to copyright."
"The Wisc-Online digital library contains over 2,500 learning objects that are freely accessible to teachers and students at no cost and with copyright clearance for use in any classroom or online application."