OER – “The term “Open Educational Resource(s)” / OER refers to educational resources (lesson plans, quizzes, syllabi, instructional modules, simulations, etc.) that are freely available for use, reuse, adaptation, and sharing.”
It serves as additional resources to an existing program or curriculum. For instance, instructors sometimes use an online open lesson plan to include an enrichment activity for learners or may provide extra practice material for the learner, struggling with the course or a particular concept
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- ACM Digital Library
– A research, discovery, and networking platform containing the full-text collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, and books. A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers. Link: https://dl.acm.org/
Applied Math and Science Educational Repository – AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services built for free for anyone to use.Link: https://amser.org/index.php?P=Home
Arizona State University’s ASU– 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”. Link: https://asuforyou.asu.edu/
BBC 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. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
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. Link : https://bccampus.ca/
BrainPOP – Provides learners with information and free access to resources. Has content for several subjects in different formats (including video and audio), in different languages and in different grades. Link: https://www.brainpop.com/
Ck12 – Provides free and customizable K12 open educational resources. Link: https://www.ck12.org/student/
College Open Textbooks – This site lists open textbooks organized by subject area, many of which have been peer-reviewed for their suitability at community colleges. Link : https://collegeopentextbooks.org/
Community College Consortium – is a joint effort by the OER Center for California, Foothill-De Anza Community College District, the League for Innovation in the Community College & many other community colleges and university partners to develop and use open educational resources (OER) and especially open textbooks in community college courses. Link: https://www.cccoer.org/
Creative Commons – CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone. Link: https://search.creativecommons.org/
Curriki Library – is an online, free, open education service. Curriki is structured as a nonprofit organization to provide open educational resources primarily in support of K-12 education. Link: https://library.curriki.org/
DepEd Commons– Contains online review materials and Open Educational Resources (OER) authored by public school teachers who are subject matter experts. Link: https://commons.deped.gov.ph/
DepEd Learning Resources Portal – 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. Link: https://lrmds.deped.gov.ph/
DepEd Open Educational Resources– is an online platform for public school teachers to support distance learning modalities that can be accessed to continue the delivery of basic education to our children. Link: https://sites.google.com/view/depedopeneducationalresources/home
DepEd PPT Presentations – An alternative platform where open sourced materials are prepared and uploaded by educators. Pupils can readily access it and enjoy its educational benefits such as quizzes, workbooks and readings. Link: https://depedtambayan.org/k-12-powerpoint-presentations/
Directory of Open Educational Resources – A product of the Commonwealth universities and educational institutions that provides OER (open education resources) for Higher Education, Open Schooling, Teacher Education, Technical and Vocational Skills Development. Link: http://doer.col.org/
Education Development Center – An online collection of educational resources for early childhood development and literacy and numeracy teaching and learning. Link: https://www.edc.org/resources
EducationLinks – USAID’s resource for all education practitioners to learn and share knowledge and create and implement successful, effective education and skills development programs. Link: https://www.edu-links.org/resources/
Epic – A digital library for children below 12 years (35,000 books, learning videos, quizzes & more). Link: https://www.getepic.com/
FlatWorld Knowledge – is a publisher of college-level textbooks and educational supplements founded in 2007 as Flat World Knowledge by Eric Frank and Jeff Shelstad. It was acquired at the end of 2016 by Alastair Adam and John Eielson and its company headquarters was moved from Washington, DC to Boston, MA. link: https://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/
Follett eLearning – On this site, Destiny Discover search engine can be used to find educational content appropriate for a variety of purposes, across grade and interest levels. It includes variety of free eBooks, collections of resources curated and shared by Follett customers throughout the world, articles from free research and journalistic databases. Link : https://search.follettsoftware.com/metasearch/ui/68994
Free Online Course Materials – Free Online Course Materials is a California State University MERLOT collection of over 35,000 open course materials. Link: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
GALILEO Open Learning Materials – GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials. Link: https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.Link: https://archive.org/
Lumen Learning –This OER-focused company provides open courses with “zero textbook cost.” Their curriculum comes with all the OER students will require. Link: https://lumenlearning.com/
Massive Open Distance e-Learning (MODEL) UPOU – 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 remote teaching. Link: https://model.upou.edu.ph/
MIT Open Courseware 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. Link: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/online-textbooks/
Milne Open Textbooks – Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff. Link: https://milneopentextbooks.org/
NASA STEM Engagement – 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. Link: https://www.nasa.gov/stem/
National Geographic – Original content that inspires family exploration through quizzes, videos, science experiments, and at-home classroom resources. Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/at-home-education-resources/
OER Commons – OER Commons was created as a network for teaching and learning materials, the website offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing. Link: https://www.oercommons.org/
OER Knowledge Cloud – 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. Link: https://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/
Open Access Publishing in European Networks – OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. Link: https://www.oapen.org/
Open Course Library – OCL is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts. Link: https://www.openwa.org/open-course-library/
Open Education Consortium – The Open Education Consortium is a community of 240-plus schools as well as organizations and people who want to advance the idea of “open education.” It features an OER resource toolkit, webinars, in-person events and links to open textbooks. Link: https://www.oeconsortium.org/
Open Educational Resources for Teacher Education – The University of Cambridge’s guide on Open Educational Resources for Teacher Education (ORBIT). Link: http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Home