Open Educational Resources: Finding OER

By using an ISBN, you can find MERLOT Open Educational Resources (OER) that can be used to supplement textbooks.

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a tool that searches more than 70 sources of open content.

The OhioLINK OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network of open education resources curated and created by Ohio faculty.

The Open Education Consortium in collaboration with MERLOT offers a search engine on OER.

The OER Consortium is a good resource for finding more information about OER, specifically in the community college classroom. This website provides resources for finding OER, monthly webinars led by educators who implement OERs in their instruction, and their own collection of open textbooks.

The Creative Commons search allows you to search for media (images, videos, music, etc.) with Creative Commons licensing.

This learning module from Open Washington shows how to search various open content repositories for different types of OER. In addition, Open Washington's "Find OER" feature includes categorized lists of various OER by type, along with a description of unique features, licensing, and attribution information for each source.

With OER Commons, educators can search and share content created by other educators in addition to create their own content. Resources are organized by subject and by STEM Literacy and Common Core standards.

This article will help you to determine what content will be most useful for your instruction needs and how you will deliver the content.

Connect OER is a platform to share and discover information about OER activities at campuses across North America. Each participating institution maintains a profile page about local OER activities, which collectively populate a searchable directory that showcases trends, best practices, and collective impact being achieved through OER. Connect OER has three main components: Campus Profiles, Searchable Directory, and Annual Report.