“Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.” [Wikipedia]
Costs continue to rise for students who are pursing college and post graduate degree programs. By leveraging best practice sites, services and non-traditional options to expand knowledge, skills and abilities in many disciplines, students can choose from a wide range of options to complete their respective goals.
This guide, Open Educational Resources (OER) Sources 2018, is a comprehensive listing of useful open educational resources, sources and sites on the Internet that can assist you in optimizing your learning opportunities.
10 OER Sites Every Educator Should Know
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/07/02/16-oer-sites-every-educator-should-know.aspx
19 Places to Find the Best OERs
https://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=538&category=Toolbox&article=
100 Places to Find Free Webinars and Tutorials
http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/06/17/learn-anything-100-places-to-find-free-webinars-and-tutorials/
1000 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
1000+ Open Textbooks and Learning Resources for All Subjects
http://smart.study/blog/1000-open-textbooks-and-learning-resources-for-all-subjects/
2nd World OER Congress
http://www.oercongress.org/
A Guide to Free and Open Source Education
https://opensource.com/education/13/4/guide-open-source-education
Alison – A New World of Free Certified Learning
https://alison.com/
An Introduction to Open Education
http://linkresearchlab.org/openedmooc/
Center for Open Education
http://open.umn.edu/
Class Central – Free Online Education
https://www.class-central.com/
College Open Textbooks
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (OER)
https://www.oerconsortium.org/
Community of Practice for Open Education
https://www.cccoer.org/
European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU)
http://eadtu.eu/
Find Free and Open Access Journals and Articles
http://cool4ed.org/findjournalsandarticles.html
Find Free and Open eTextbooks
http://cool4ed.org/findetextbooks.html
Find Free and Open Online Course Materials
http://cool4ed.org/findcoursematerials.html
Find Free and Open Online Courses
http://cool4ed.org/findonlinecourses.html
Find OER – Open Professionals Education Network
https://open4us.org/find-oer/
Finding More OER Sources
http://libraryguides.goucher.edu/c.php?g=242548&p=1612907
Free Documentaries
http://freedocumentaries.org/
Free Online Courses Database: 917 Free Courses from Top Universities
http://onlinecoursespro.com/free-online-courses-database/
Free Video Lectures – Online Courses and Lecture Videos
http://freevideolectures.com/
GCF Global Free Learning
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/topics
Giving Knowledge for Free – The Emergence of Open Educational Resources
http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/38654317.pdf
How Machine Learning Is Easing Open Educational Resources (OER) Pain Point
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/10/04/how-machine-learning-is-easing-oer-pain-points.aspx
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW)
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
Khan Academy – Free World-Class Education for Anyone Anywhere
http://www.khanacademy.org/
KnowFree (KF)- Free eBooks and Training Videos
http://www.pearltrees.com/u/654424-knowfree-knowledge-updatedhttp://knowfree.net/
Lesson Paths – Making Learning Online Free and Accessible To the Entire World
http://www.lessonpaths.com/
Lumen Learning
http://lumenlearning.com/
Media, Technology and Culture Open Access Audio Lectures
http://culturedigitally.org/
Merlott II – Free and Open Online Teaching, Learning and Faculty Development Services
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) – Free Lecture Notes, Exams, and Videos from MIT
http://ocw.mit.edu/
MIT Open Courseware – Online Textbooks
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/online-textbooks/
MOOC4D – Massive Open Online Courses for Development
http://www.mooc4dev.org/
mooc.org – edX Destination
http://mooc.org/
MOOCTracker – Compilation of Free Open Online Business Courses From Around the World
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/039fb95a-161c-11e3-a57d-00144feabdc0.html#top
mySolvr – The Open Internetwork Intelligence Repository
http://mysolvr.com/
No Excuse List – The Best Place On the Web To learn Anything Free
http://noexcuselist.com/
OCW Bookshelf – MIT OpenCourseWare Textbook Information
http://mitopencourseware.wordpress.com/ocw-bookshelf/
OER Browse Materials
https://www.oercommons.org/oer
OER Commons – Discover – Share – Create
https://www.oercommons.org/
OER – Free Is Good
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/free-good-bethany-rayl
OERHub – Researching Open Education
http://oerhub.net/
OERu – Enabling Education Around the Globe
https://oeru.org/
OER World Map
https://oerworldmap.org/
OLC Research Center for Digital Learning and Leadership
https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/read/olc-research-center-digital-learning-leadership
OnlineCourses.com – Obtain Free Courseware Lectures from the World’s Leading Universities
http://www.onlinecourses.com/lectures/
Open Course Library
http://opencourselibrary.org/
OpenCourseWare Consortium
http://ocwconsortium.org/
Open Culture – 1150 Free Online Courses From Top Universities
http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
Open Culture – Best Free Cultural and Educational Media On the Web
http://www.openculture.com/
Open Education
https://tech.ed.gov/open/
Open Educational Resources – Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/education
Open Educational Resources Movement Scales Up
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/03/29/open-educational-resources-movement-scales-up-oer.html
Open Educational Resources (OER) and the Evolving Higher Education Landscape
https://assets.cengage.com/pdf/wp_oer-evolving-higher-ed-landscape.pdf
Open Educational Resources (OER) – Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/open-scholarship/open-educational-resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) Degree Initiative
http://achievingthedream.org/resources/initiatives/open-educational-resources-oer-degree-initiative
Open Educational Resources (OER) – Digital Learning
http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/
Open Educational Resources (OER) – Download & Streaming – Archive’s Library
https://archive.org/details/education
Open Educational Resources (OER) – Educause
https://library.educause.edu/topics/teaching-and-learning/open-educational-resources-oer
Open Educational Resources (OER) – Hewlett Foundation
http://www.hewlett.org/strategy/open-educational-resources/
Open Educational Resources (OER) – Jisc
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/open-educational-resources
Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup
https://www.edutopia.org/open-educational-resources-guide
Open Educational Resources (OCR) – Skills Commons
http://support.skillscommons.org/about/open-educational-resources/
Open Educational Resources (OER) – Stories, Policies and Resources
http://www.ccsso.org/Resources/Programs/Open_Educational_Resources_(OER)_Stories_Policies_and_Resources_.html
Open Educational Resources (OER) – UEN
http://www.uen.org/oer/index.shtml
Open Educational Resources (OER) – UNESCO
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources//
Open Educational Resources (OER) – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) – Wikiversity
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_Educational_Resources
Open Education Database – Comprehensive Collection of Online College Rankings and Free Courses
http://oedb.org/
OpenLearn – Free Learning from the Open University
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/tags
Open Learning Initiative
http://oli.cmu.edu/
OpenStax – Discover Learning Materials in an Open Space
http://cnx.org/
Open University Podcasts
http://podcast.open.ac.uk/
OpenupEd – Worldwide Large MOOC Provider for Higher Education
http://www.openuped.eu/
Open Yale Courses
http://oyc.yale.edu/
Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3063/4300
School of Open
http://schoolofopen.p2pu.org
SPARC – Setting the Default to Open
https://sparcopen.org/
TED – Riveting Talks by Remarkable People, Free to the World
http://www.TED.com/
The International Review of Research In Open and Distributed Learning
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl
Udacity – Free College Courses Online
http://www.udacity.com/
University of the People (UoPeople)- Tuition Free Online Academic Institution
http://www.uopeople.org/
VideoJug – Comprehensive Library of Free Factual How To and Ask the Expert Videos
http://www.VideoJug.com/
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
http://www.w3schools.com/
What are Open Educational Resources (OCRs)?
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/
Wikiversity – Learning Resources, Learning Projects and Research
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/