Free Online Resources
ACM Digital Library
Program: Computer Science
Link: https://dl.acm.org/
A research, discovery and networking platform containing the full-text collection of all ACM, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books. A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.
Applied Math and Science Educational Repository
Program: Math and Science
Link: https://amser.org/index.php?P=Home
AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services built for free for anyone to use.
Arizona State University’s ASU for You
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: /https://asuforyou.asu.edu/
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
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/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.
BCcampus
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://bccampus.ca/
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.
BrainPOP
Program: K-12
Link: https://www.brainpop.com/
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.
Ck12
Program: K-12
Link: https://www.ck12.org/student/
Provides free and customizable K12 open educational resources.
College Open Textbooks
Program: Education
Link: https://collegeopentextbooks.org/
This site lists open textbooks organized by subject area, many of which have been peer reviewed for their suitability at community colleges.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://www.cccoer.org/
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.
Creative Commons
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://search.creativecommons.org/
CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
DepEd Learning Resources Portal
Program: Education
Link: https://lrmds.deped.gov.ph/
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 Resources
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://sites.google.com/view/depedopeneducationalresources/home
CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
Education Development Center
Program: K-12
Link: https://www.edc.org/resources
An online collection of educational resources for early childhood development and literacy and numeracy teaching and learning.
EducationLinks
Program: Education
Link: https://www.edu-links.org/resources/
USAID’s resource for all education practitioners to learn and share knowledge and create and implement successful, effective education and skills development programs.
Free Online Course Materials
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
Free Online Course Materials is a California State University MERLOT collection of over 35,000 open course materials.
GALILEO Open Learning Material
Program: Sciences
Link: https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/
GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.
Internet Archive
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://archive.org/
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Khan Academy
Program: Education
Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/
Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Salman Khan, with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos.
Massive Open Distance e-Learning (MODEL) UPOU
Program: Education
Link: https://model.upou.edu.ph/
The official learning platform for the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offered by the UP OPen University. The MOOCs include the free online courses for university administrators, teachers so they can do technology enhanced/technology-enabled teaching; and technical staff who can provide support for the online component of the remote teaching.
MIT Open Courseware Online Textbooks
Program: Education
Link: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/online-textbooks/
MIT’s library of online textbooks is one of the few sources for OER on aeronautics, civil engineering and material science, among many other disciplines.
NASA STEM Engagement
Program: Sciences
Link: https://www.nasa.gov/stem/
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
Program: Education
Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/at-home-education-resources/
Original content that inspires family exploration through quizzes, videos, science experiment and at-home classroom resources.
OER Commons
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://www.oercommons.org/
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 Cloud
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/
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
Open Access Publishing in European Networks
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://www.oapen.org/
OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication.
Open Educational Resources for Teacher Education
Program: Teacher Education
Link: http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Home
The University of Cambridge’s guide on Open Educational Resources for Teacher Education (ORBIT).
Open Learn
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/
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
Open Learning Initiative
Program: Sciences
Link: http://oli.cmu.edu/
Carnegie Mellon’s (PA) open courses (and associated content) denote a marked emphasis on STEM, including computing.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://oasis.geneseo.edu/
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.
OPENOU NETWORKS Open Educational Resources
Program: Education
Link: https://networks.upou.edu.ph/
The UPOU Networks is the online repository of all multimedia resources produced by UPOU. It has five main features:
UPOU Commons– a repository of the university-produced open educational resources.
UPOU Live – features lectures, fora, research presentations, seminars, and other university events that are web-streamed on real time. It enables the university to communicate/reach out to it various publics scattered all over the world. Online viewers are also given the chance to interact with the presenters/speakers through an online chat.
OpenStax
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://openstax.org/
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.
PBS Learning Media
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
Curated content of free, (US) standards aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans and activities.
ProjectMuse
Program: Humanities and Social Sciences
Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/
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 Online
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/
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.
Saylor Foundation
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://learn.saylor.org/
Saylor Academy is a nonprofit initiative working since 2008 to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn. We offer nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels, each of which is available right now — at your pace, on your schedule, and free of cost.
Science in School
Program: Science
Link: https://www.scienceinschool.org/
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.
Siyavula
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://www.siyavulaeducation.com/
Produces textbooks as OER through a sponsorship model.
Taylor and Francis
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/
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.
UMN Open Textbook Library
Program: Multidisciplinary
Link: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. The library currently includes 779 textbooks, with more being added all the time.
World Digital Library
Program: History
Link: https://www.wdl.org/
The World Digital Library provides free access to manuscripts, rare books, maps, photographs, and other important cultural documents from all countries
