2020 Open Educational Resources (OER) Sources and Tools

This is a comprehensive listing of Open Educational Resources (OER) sources and tools available in the United States and around the world. This guide includes references to: search engines, directories, initiatives, books, E-books, E-textbooks, free online seminars and webinars, subject guides, open and distance learning, open access papers and research, as well as related costs and metrics to identify and choose reliable, subject matter expert sources for free and open continuing education and research on the internet.

$1 Billion in Savings Through Open Educational Resources
https://sparcopen.org/news/2018/1-billion-in-savings-through-open-educational-resources/

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

2nd World OER Congress
http://www.oercongress.org/

80 Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives                                                                                        
http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/80-oer-tools/

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/

190 Universities Just Launched 600 Free Online Courses (Class Central 875 Universities Listing)

250 Ivy League Courses Online Now For Free
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/ivy-league-free-online-courses-a0d7ae675869

300 Free Ivy League University Courses You Can Take Online Right Now
https://qz.com/1263050/here-are-300-free-ivy-league-university-courses-you-can-take-online-right-now/

400 Free Ivy League University Courses You Can Take Online in 2019 by Dhawal Shah                                                                                                   
https://qz.com/1514408/400-free-ivy-league-university-courses-you-can-take-online-in-2019/

400 Free Online Courses with Credits That Can Count Towards Your Degree
https://qz.com/1351501/tk-free-online-courses-with-credits-that-count-towards-your-degree/

1000+ Open Textbooks and Learning Resources for All Subjects
http://smart.study/blog/1000-open-textbooks-and-learning-resources-for-all-subjects/

1,300 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

2017 Top Ten Books on Online Learning
https://teachonline.ca/tools-trends/2017-top-ten-books-on-online-Learning

2019 Directory of Directories
http://www.2019DirectoryOfDirectories.com/

2020 New Economy Resources
http://www.2020NewEconomy.com/

2019 Textbook Affordability Survey Report
https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=research

aero – Learning, Designed
https://www.smartsparrow.com/aero/

A Guide to Free and Open Source Education
https://opensource.com/education/13/4/guide-open-source-education

A Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students
https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/

A Landscape Study On Open Access and Monographs – Policies, Funding and Publishing In Eight European Countries
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6693/1/Landscape_study_on_OA_and_Monographs_Oct_2017_KE.pdf

Alison – A New World of Free Certified Learning
http://alison.com/

An Introduction to Open Education
http://linkresearchlab.org/openedmooc/

An Overview of the Current State of Linked and Open Data In Cataloging
https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/10432

Applications, Algorithms and Data: Open Educational Resources and the Next Generation of Virtual Learning by Stephen Downes
http://www.downes.ca/presentation/481

A Recipe for a Successful Institutional Open Education Initiative
https://wcetfrontiers.org/2019/02/06/successful-institutional-open-education-initiative/

Arizona State Working with Community Colleges in Interactive OER Pilot
https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=69342 

Attributes of Open Pedagogy: A Model for Using Open Educational Resources
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Ed_Tech_Hegarty_2015_article_attributes_of_open_pedagogy.pdf

Barriers, Incentives, and Benefits of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: An Exploration Into Instructor Perspectives by Serena Henderson and Nathaniel Ostashewski
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/9172

Beyond Free: A Social Justice Vision for Open Education by Rajiv Jhangkiani
https://osf.io/9hn56/

Book Review – Open and Distance Education Theory
https://www.tonybates.ca/2019/07/01/book-review-open-and-distance-education-theory-revisited/

Calculating (and Acknowledging) the Costs of OER
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/07/25/community-college-confronts-costs-open-educational-resources

Can You Automate OER Evaluation With the RISE Framework?
http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2018/08/10/can-you-automate-oer-evaluation-with-the-rise-framework/

Center for Education Through eXploration
https://etx.asu.edu/

Center for Open Education
http://open.umn.edu/

CIO’s: OER Will Storm Campuses In the Next 5 Years, “High Cloud” Just Isn’t Happening by Laura Ascione
https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-newsletter/report-oer-video-take-lead-campus/

Class Central – Free Online Education
https://www.class-central.com/

College Open Textbooks – Driving Awareness and Adoption of Open Textbooks
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

Common Struggles: Policy-Based vs Scholar-Led Approaches To Open Access in the Hummanties
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:24135/

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (OER)
https://www.oerconsortium.org/

Community of Practice for Open Education
https://www.cccoer.org/

Confederation of Open Repositories (COAR) – Next Generation Repositories
http://ngr.coar-repositories.org/

Connect OER Annual Report for 2018 – 2019
https://sparcopen.org/news/2019/sparc-releases-connect-oer-annual-report-for-2018-2019/

COOL4Ed – California Open Online Library for Education
http://cool4ed.org/ 

CORE – Aggregating the World’s Open Access Research Papers
https://core.ac.uk/

Courseroot – Online Courses Database
https://courseroot.com/

Containing the Future of OER
http://bavatuesdays.com/containing-the-future-of-oer/

Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy
https://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/record2403

Design Courses – Curated List of Free Online Courses for Designers
https://betalist.com/startups/design-courses

Designing the New OER Policy Registry
https://oerworldmap.wordpress.com/2018/11/22/designing-the-new-oer-policy-registry/

DigitalGov University
https://digital.gov/digitalgov-university/

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
https://doabooks.org/

Directory of Open Access Respositories (OpenDOAR)
http://opendoar.org/

Do Open Educational Resources Improve Student Learning? Implications of the Access Hypothesis
https://oerknowledgecloud.org/sites/oerknowledgecloud.org/files/journal.pone_.0212508.pdf

Education Blockchain Market Map
https://www.holoniq.com/blockchain

Education Publisher Pearson to Phase Out Print Textbooks
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48998789

EduOPEN
https://learn.eduopen.org/

EduRef – Changing Lives Through Support of Our Educators
https://eduref.org/

EMC Launches Microcredential Framework
https://thepienews.com/news/emc-launches-common-microcredential-framework/

European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU)
http://eadtu.eu/

European MOOC Consortium (EMC
https://emc.eadtu.eu/

European MOOC Platforms Plan New Generation of Microcredentials
https://www.classcentral.com/report/european-mooc-platforms-plan-new-generation-of-microcredentials/

Exploring Open Access Ebook Usahe
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:24147/

Fifty Shades of Open by Jeffrey Pomerantz ans Robin Peek
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6360/5460

Find Free and Open Access Journals and Articles
http://cool4ed.org/findjournalsandarticles

Find Free and Open Course Materials
http://cool4ed.org/findcoursematerials

Find Free and Open eTextbooks
http://cool4ed.org/findetextbooks

Find Free and Open Online Courses
http://cool4ed.org/findcoursematerials

Find OER – Open Professionals Education Network
https://open4us.org/find-oer/

Finding More OER Sources
http://libraryguides.goucher.edu/c.php?g=242548&p=1612844

Finding Open Content – OER Africa
https://www.oerafrica.org/book/welcome

FOSTER – The Open Science Portal
https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/

Free Documentaries
http://www.freedocumentaries.org/

Free Online Courses Database: 917 Free Courses from Top Universities
http://onlinecoursespro.com/free-online-courses-database/

Free Text Books
https://freetextbooks.com/

Free Video Lectures – Online Courses and Lecture Videos
http://freevideolectures.com/

FUN-MOOC
https://www.fun-mooc.fr/

Future Learn
https://www.futurelearn.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

Hard Copy or Electronic Textbooks? Professors Are More Concerned About Keeping Them Affordable by Claire Hansen
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Hard-Copy-or-Electronic/244425

Health (Nursing, Medicine, Allied Health): Open Educational Resources (OER) for the Health Professions
https://guides.nyu.edu/health/oer

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

Humanties Commons
https://hcommons.org/

Hybrid Pedagogy
http://hybridpedagogy.org/textbook-access/

Implementing A Holistic Approach To Lifelong Learning: Community Lifelong Learning Centres As A Gateway to Multidisciplinary Support Teams
https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/files/2226_en.pdf

In Open Access’s Long Shadow – A View From the Humanities by Enrico Natale
https://0277.ch/ojs/index.php/cdrs_0277/article/view/184/412

Insights Into the Economy of Open Scholarship
https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=69636

Inspark Smart Courses
https://inspark.education/

Intellus Platform – Macmillan Learning Support for Open Education Resources
https://intelluslearning.com/

International Journal for Open Educational Resources
https://www.ijoer.org/

Intro to OER: A Wider Spectrum
http://bionicteaching.com/intro-to-oer-a-wider-spectrum/

It’s a Long Game After All by David Wiley
https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/6109

Japanned – e-Learning
https://japanned.hcommons.org/e-learning/

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 

Know It Wall (KiW) – A Place for Inquisitive Minds
http://knowitwall.com/

LabXchange – Science and Learning-Connected
https://labxchange.org/

@Lgnatia Webs
https://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/2019/05/blockchain-in-learning-exploring-for.html

Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) Resource Search
https://www.imsglobal.org/resource-search

Lesson Paths – Making Learning Online Free and Accessible To the Entire World
http://www.lessonpaths.com/

Library Systems and Vendors in UK Higher Education
https://www.helibtech.com/he_systems_review

LinkedIn Becomes a Serious Open Learning Platform
https://www.clomedia.com/2018/11/09/linkedin-becomes-a-serious-open-learning-experience-platform/

List of 41 Providers Offering MOOCs/Free Online Courses
https://www.class-central.com/providers

Low Cost Textbook Alternatives: Worth the Effort?
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/04/01/guest-post-low-cost-textbook-alternatives-worth-the-effort/

Lrnr – Adaptive Learning Solutions
https://www.lrnr.us/

LTI Resource Search
https://www.imsglobal.org/resource-search

Lumen Learning
http://lumenlearning.com 

Madrasa – e-Learning Arabic Platform
https://www.madrasa.org/

Making E-Textbooks More Interactive by David Raths
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2018/09/05/making-etextbooks-more-interactive.aspx?m=1

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
https://mason.deepwebaccess.com/mason__MasonLibrariesOpenEducationResources_5f4/desktop/en/search.html

Massive List of MOOC Providers Around the World
https://www.classcentral.com/report/mooc-providers-list/

Measuring the Impact of OER at the University of Georgia
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/07/16/measuring-impact-oer-university-georgia

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 

Methodological Guide for Implementation and Evaluation of Open e-Textbook Programs
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/methodological-guide-implementation-and-evaluation-open-e-textbook-programs

Miriadax – MOOCs
https://miriadax.net/cursos

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 List
https://www.mooc-list.com/ 

mooc.org – edX Destination
http://mooc.org/

MOOCReport – Class Central
https://www.classcentral.com/report/

MOOCs and Open Educational Resources: A Handbook for Educators
http://intelligenttelevision.com/files/59-moocs_and_open_educational_resources_handbook_kaufman_100616.pdf

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 

MOOCWatch by Class Central
https://www.classcentral.com/report/category/moocwatch/

MoSCoW Method
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoSCoW_method

National Council for Open Education
https://eduref.org/

New Frontiers for Openness in Scholarly Publishing
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications/special_issues/openpub

New Issues for OERs – January 18, 2019
https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-issues-for-oers.html

No Excuse List – The Best Place On the Web To learn Anything Free
http://noexcuselist.com/

Notes form OER19
https://bavatuesdays.com/notes-from-oer19/

OAPEN Foundation and Online Library and Publication Platform
http://www.oapen.org/

OCW Bookshelf – MIT OpenCourseWare Textbook Information
http://mitopencourseware.wordpress.com/ocw-bookshelf/

OER18
https://oer18.oerconf.org/

OER19
https://oer19.oerconf.org/

OER20
https://oer20.oerconf.org/

OER Browse Materials
https://www.oercommons.org/oe 

OER Canvas
https://education.okfn.org/handbooks/oer-canvas/

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/

OER Knowledge Cloud
https://oerknowledgecloud.org/

OER Open Educational Resources: Big List of Resources
http://pitt.libguides.com/openeducation/biglist

OER Resources for Policy Makers
http://www.ccsso.org/resource-library/oer-resources-policy-makers

OER State Legislative Guide
https://oerknowledgecloud.org/content/oer-state-legislative-guide

OERu – Enabling Education Around the Globe
https://oeru.org/

OERu Social Network
https://course.oeru.org/support/studying-courses/oeru-social-network/ 

OER World Map
https://oerworldmap.org/ 

OLC Research Center for Digital Learning and Leadership
https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/read/olc-research-center-digital-learning-leadership

OLI – Profiles of Next Generation Learning
https://oli.cmu.edu/learn-more-about-oli/

OnlineCourses.com – Obtain Free Courseware Lectures from the World’s Leading Universities
http://www.onlinecourses.com/lectures/

Online Learning
https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/

Online Learning and Distance Education Resources by Tony Bates
https://www.tonybates.ca/

On OER and College Bookstores
https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3168

Open 101: An Action Plan for Affordable Textbooks
https://studentpirgs.org/blog/2018/01/25/open-101-action-plan-affordable-textbooks/

Open-Access Best Sellers
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/06/01/most-popular-open-access-monographs

OpenAIRE – Science Set Free
https://www.openaire.eu/

Open and Distance eLearning in Asia
http://www.jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/301/328

Open Content
https://opencontent.org/

Open Course Development by the OERu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEyzL4E0OSU&list=PLgNzHqwrWe5zzMG5C3yLP8mkbKMNewSP9

Open Course Library
http://opencourselibrary.org/

Open Courses for eLearning Capacity Building
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hlkc6V3RX4&list=PLgNzHqwrWe5zzMG5C3yLP8mkbKMNewSP9

OpenCourseWare Consortium
http://ocwconsortium.org/

Open Culture – 1300 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 Database of Canadian Educational Facilities
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/190819/dq190819c-eng.htm

Open Datasets

http://www.DataPortals.org/

https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets

https://www.data.gov/

https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to-the-public

https://aws.amazon.com/public-datasets/

https://data.world/

http://data.worldbank.org/

http://www.OpenDataSets.info/

Open Education
https://tech.ed.gov/open/

Open Education in Chile: Small Steps in an Adverse Context
https://education.okfn.org/open-education-in-chile-small-steps-in-an-adverse-context/

Open Education Resources in Libraries
https://floridalibrarywebinars.org/open-education-resources-in-libraries/

Open Educational Resources in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/go.php?q=Open%20Educational%20Resources%20in%20TVET

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) – Big List of Resources
https://pitt.libguides.com/openeducation/biglist

Open Educational Resources (OER) Degree Initiative
http://achievingthedream.org/resources/initiatives/open-educational-resources-oer-degree-initiative

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) – Open Textbook Collections
https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/opentextbooks

Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup
https://www.edutopia.org/open-educational-resources-guide

Open Educational Resources (OER) – San Jacinto College
https://sjcd.libguides.com/c.php?g=534967&p=3659838

Open Educational Resources (OER) – Skills Commons
http://support.skillscommons.org/about/open-educational-resources/

Open Educational Resources (OER) Sources 2020
http://www.OERSources.com/

Open Educational Resources (OER) Sources 2019 Search Engine
http://www.OERSearchEngine.com/

Open Educational Resources (OER) – Tidewater Community College
https://libguides.tcc.edu/faculty/OER/search-engines

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 Educational Resources, Student Efficacy, and User Perceptions: A Synthesis of Research Published Between 2015 and 2018 by John Hilton, III
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11423-019-09700-4

Open Education Database – Comprehensive Collection of Online College Rankings and Free Courses
http://oedb.org/

Open Education Group – Socially Responsive Research That Concretely Improves Society
http://openedgroup.org/

Open Education Resources (OER) Applications from Around the World
https://teachonline.ca/tools-trends/open-education-resources-oer-applications-around-world/taxonomy-term

OpenLearn – Free Learning from the Open University
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/tags

Open Learning Hub
http://openlearninghub.net/

Open Learning Initiative
http://oli.cmu.edu/

Open Logic Project – An Open Source, Collaborative Logic Text
http://openlogicproject.org/

Open Pedagogy as an Exponential Accelerator in OER Creation
http://geoffcain.com/blog/education/open-pedagogy-as-an-exponential-accelerator-in-oer-creation/

OpenReview – Openess in Scientific Communications
https://openreview.net/

Opensource Apps for Educators
https://oet.sandcats.io/ 

OpenStax – Discover Learning Materials in an Open Space
http://cnx.org/
https://openstax.org

Open Syllabus Project Co-Assignment Galaxy
http://galaxy.opensyllabus.org/

OpenText
https://www.opentext.com/

Open Textbook Library
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

Open University
http://www.OpenUniversity.edu/ 

Open University Podcasts
http://podcast.open.ac.uk/

OpenupEd – Worldwide Large MOOC Provider for Higher Education
http://www.openuped.eu/

Open-Up Resources  –  Curriculum Free and Open
https://openupresources.org/

Open Yale Courses
http://oyc.yale.edu/

Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online Database (PRIMO)
http://primodb.org/

Perspectives on the Open Access Discovery Landscape by Sarah Fahmy
https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2019/04/24/perspectives-on-the-open-access-discovery-landscape/

Placed-Based Spaces for Networked Learning
http://e4innovation.com/?p=1078

Professors Worry About the Cost of Textbooks, But Free Alternatives Pose Their Own Problems by Beth McMurtrie  January 9, 2019
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Professors-Worry-About-the/245435

Project Gutenberg – Free eBooks
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Reflecting on the Impact of the Open Education Movement
https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/314

Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3063/4300

Research Data Curation Bibliography Version 9 by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm

Rob Johnson on Shifting Relationship Dynamics and Imbalances in an Open Access World
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/04/03/guest-post-rob-johnson-on-shifting-relationship-dynamics-and-imbalances-in-an-open-access-world/

Sandstorm – 74+ Open Source Productivity Web Apps for Students and Faculty
https://sandstorm.io/go/education

School of Open
http://schoolofopen.p2pu.org

Schrodinger’s OER
https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/5511

Sharing MOOC Resources – Whatever Happened to Open?
http://acreelman.blogspot.com/2018/12/sharing-mooc-resources-whatever.html

Skill Commons – Open Digital Library of Workforce Training Materials
http://www.skillscommons.org/

SPARC – Setting the Default to Open
https://sparcopen.org

Squirrel AI Learning – Revolutionizing Education
https://squirrelai.com/

Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3)
https://scoap3.org/

Statewide Data on OER Savings
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/11/16/north-dakota-audit-reports-significant-cost-savings-after-oer

StoryWeaver
https://storyweaver.org.in/

Swayam – Free Online Education
https://swayam.gov.in/

TED – Riveting Talks by Remarkable People, Free to the World
http://www.TED.com/

The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
https://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/

The Fabrication That Is OER by Stephen Downes
https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-fabrication-that-is-oer.html?m=1

The Free Online Courses That Are Putting College In Reach
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/free-online-courses-are-putting-college-reach

The Future of Augmented Reality & Blockchain Technology
https://next.reality.news/news/future-augmented-reality-blockchain-technology-0196248/

The High Cost of College Textbooks Explained
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/6/18252322/college-textbooks-cost-expensive-pearson-cengage-mcgraw-hill

The International Review of Research In Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL)
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl

The OECD Learning Compass 2030
http://www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/teaching-and-learning/learning/

The Open Textbook Toolkit by Mira Waller, Will Cross and Erica Hayes
http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2019/TheOpenTextbookToolkit.pdf

The Orange Grove – Florida’s Open Educational Resource Repository
https://www.floridashines.org/orange-grove

The Radical Transformation of the Textbook
https://www.wired.com/story/digital-textbooks-radical-transformation/

The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far)
https://press.rebus.community/the-rebus-guide-to-publishing-open-textbooks/

The Rise Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle
https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/5641

The Sixth “R” of Open Educational Resources by Chris Aldrich
https://boffosocko.com/2018/08/30/the-sixth-r-of-open-educational-resources-oer/

The Ultimate Guide To OER: How You Can Improve Educational Content
https://tophat.com/ebooks/ultimate-guide-to-oer-open-educational-resources/

The Uncertain Future of OER
https://www.edutopia.org/article/uncertain-future-oer

To Meet the Plan “S” Open-Access Mandate, Journals Mull Setting Papers Free at Publications
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/meet-plan-s-open-access-mandate-journals-mull-setting-papers-free-publication

Top 100 Free Online Courses and MOOCs of All Time
https://www.classcentral.com/collection/top-free-online-courses

TOPkit Digest – Open Educational Resources (OER)
https://mailchi.mp/b6883ad28f2d/topkit-digest-incentives-1289477

TOPkit – Teaching Online Preparation Toolkit
https://topkit.org/

Toward a Distributed OER Network
https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?presentation=506

Toward a New Kind of “Big Deal” by Lindsay McKenzie
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/30/pursuing-new-kind-%E2%80%9Cbig-deal%E2%80%9D-publishers

Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship
https://careframework.org/2018/03/04/toward-a-sustainable-oer-ecosystem-the-care-framework/

Udacity – Free College Courses Online
http://www.udacity.com/

Ultimate Guide to Free Online Courses
http://www.smartscholar.com/free-online-course-guide/

Understanding the Impact of OER: Achievements and Challenges
https://iite.unesco.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Understanding_the_impact_of_OER_2019_final.pdf

UNESCO OER Recommendation: One Step Closer to Adoption
https://creativecommons.org/2019/06/04/unesco-oer-recommendation-one-step-closer-to-adoption/

University of the People (UoPeople)- Tuition Free Online Academic Institution
http://www.uopeople.edu/

VideoJug – Comprehensive Library of Free Factual How To and Ask the Expert Videos
http://www.VideoJug.com/

Virtually Connecting
https://virtuallyconnecting.org

Voodoo Categorisation and Synamic Ontologies In the World of OER by Doug Belshaw
https://blog.moodle.net/2019/voodoo-categorisation/

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
https://www.w3schools.com/

WatchKnowLearn – Free Organized Educational Videos
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/

WebWork – Open-Source Software
http://webwork.maa.org/getwebwork.html

What Are Open Educational Resources
https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836860/What%20are%20Open%20Educational%20Resources

When Is an OER an OER?
https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/5463

Why Are College Textbooks So Expensive
https://youtu.be/Cv-60ZA-PnM

Wikiversity – Learning Resources, Learning Projects and Research
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page

World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

X5GON – Cross Modal, Cross Cultural, Cross Lingual, Cross Domain, and Cross Global OER Network
https://www.x5gon.org/

ZeroNet – Open, Free and Uncensorable Websites Using Bitcoin Cryptography and BitTorrent Network
https://zeronet.io/

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