Open Educational Resources: OER Resources for Faculty

Narrated version of a presentation by Gideon O. Burton on 11-11-09 at the Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellows Institute at Brigham Young University.

This site serves as a repository for the work created and collated by Massachusetts Community College (MCC) faculty as part of the MCC Go Open project. As OER work continues to expand across the state, additional resources will be added, allowing for faculty collaboration and increased access to high quality course materials for all students.

The CCCOER collects open access resources for the creation of textbook alternatives, in addition to open content repositories and developmental tools.

Connexions contains educational materials for everyone - from children to college students to professionals - organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses

A multidisciplinary Open Access publisher of books and journals covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.

A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education

Provides over 1600 open teaching and learning resources: online presentations; course material; learning modules; podcasts; simulation tools.

This catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.

"We are busy around the clock adding new educational resources to OER Commons. We work with the finest producers of instructional content in the world and gather their best work together especially for you. Then we ensure the resources are carefully described and fully indexed because we want you to be able to find exactly what you need, when you need it."

Range of materials including syllabi, course activities, and assessments created by faculty, instructional designers, librarians, other experts. Some of these materials are intended to be paired with textbooks.

Free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.

Open Modernisms is a Creative-Commons-licensed (CC-BY) resource that allows users to search, remix and create customized content using primary source works in the humanities from approximately 1890-1940. All items are in the public domain in Canada, where the site originates. Instructors and scholars of modernism can build custom anthologies or coursepacks.

OpenStax College offers free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers.

A catalog of open access textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members, made available by the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development.

The following rubrics represent an evaluation system for objects found within Open Education
Resources. An object could include images, applets, lessons, units, assessments and more. For
the purpose of this evaluation, any component that can exist as a stand-alone qualifies as an
object. The rubrics in this packet can be applied across content areas and object types.

The Saylor Foundation's free education initiative has focused on driving the cost of education to zero and expand access to quality open educational resources. To date there are over 270 free, self-paced, college level courses, created by credentialed professors.

A free and open, online, not-for-profit art history textbook with complete multimedia content.

A catalog of information about some of the top examples of open college textbooks, offered online under a license allowing free digital access and inexpensive print options. Material can be easily modified to fit your needs.

Offers a number of e-Textbooks sorted by author and topic

A student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors

An evolving online community intended for the planning of education projects linked with the development of free content and the development of free content on WikiEducator for free learning.

"The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates." This link illustrates the licenses on a spectrum, from the most open to the most restrictive, and offers examples of each.

The Fair Use Checklist and variations on it have been widely used for many years to help educators, librarians, lawyers, and many other users of copyrighted works determine whether their activities are within the limits of fair use under U.S. copyright law (Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act). The four factors form the structure of this checklist. Congress and courts have offered some insight into the specific meaning of the factors, and those interpretations are reflected in the details of this form.

This Statement is meant to provide clarity for U.S. colleges and universities about how copyright law applies to the many facets of remote teaching and research in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. We write this as copyright specialists at colleges, universities, and other organizations supporting higher education in the U.S. and Canada who work every day with faculty, staff, and librarians to enable them to make ethical and legal choices about copyright issues in online teaching.

A collection of images published on Flickr using a Creative Commons license.

Open access to over 700,000 digital images from the New York Public Library's collections.

A vast collection of photos and images from the U.S. Government, many of which are in the public domain and free to use.

A large collection of movies, films and videos that are all free to use.

A repository of open access digitized videos for education and learning purposes.