More Resources

Open Educational Resources Commons
Searchable repository organized by grade level, subject, type of content and format
http://www.oercommons.org/

College Open Textbooks
Organized by subject, with various open licenses.
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org

Connexions
Repository for educational content, organized by discipline. Not a user friendly search interface, but worth a look anyway.
http://cnx.org/

Open Stax
Peer-reviewed college textbooks online.
https://openstaxcollege.org/books

Global Textbook Project
Open document format for texbooks in business, computing, education, health, sciences and social sciences
http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/books

Curriki
All content cc licensed and uploaded by educators.
http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

Open Course Ware search
Includes course content from nearly a dozen institutions, includeing MIT, Yale, UMass and Notre Dame
http://www.ocwsearch.com/

Merlot
Searchable repository of educational content, organized by subject, grade level, type of content and format.
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

The Orange Grove
Florida’s digital repository for educational content
http://florida.theorangegrove.org

Hippocampus
Digital content organized by subject. Includes a lot of streaming content.
http://www.hippocampus.org/

Wikibooks
From the founders of wikipedia, open access textbooks contributed by scholars, educators and others.
http://www.wikibooks.org/

Flat World Knowledge – http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
Textbooks, searchable by subject. Open content now hosted at Saylor.
http://www.saylor.org/books/

Flexbooks
“The CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit that creates and aggregates high quality, curated Stem content.”
http://www.ck12.org/teacher/

Bepress
Digital commons scholarly publications
http://www.bepress.com/

Jorum
“Find and use thousands of free OER from a wide variety of subject areas. All resources have been shared by those who teach in or create content for the further and higher education communities in the UK.”
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

Academic Earth
Online course content organized by subject. Often available by module.
http://academicearth.org/

Directory of Open Access Journals
think of this as free proquest. Full text, peer-reviewed journal articles in all subject areas.
http://www.doaj.org/

Directory of Open Access Books
New site from the group that gave as doaj! includes over 700 peer-reviewed, open-licensed titles
http://www.doabooks.org

Public Library of Science
research articles in the sciences
http://www.plos.org/

Scholarpedia
Open access encyclopedia, curated by subject experts
http://www.scholarpedia.org/

YouTube
Try the educaton site too. See what you can find out about the source of the video (creator/owner/institution)
http://www.youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/education

Critical Commons
Video clips, lectures and articles. Sort of a “you tube” for the higher ed set.
http://criticalcommons.org/

Vimeo
Shared videos. Includes non-educational content as well.
http://vimeo.com/

Ted
Video links to lectures by notable experts in science, global issues, technology, business and design
http://www.ted.com/

Creative Commons
Find images with open licences
http://search.creativecommons.org/

Wikimedia Commons
Freely usable media files
http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Slideshare
Power points searchable by tag terms or a search bar.
http://www.slideshare.net/