Open Educational Resources (OER)

Features curated collections of Open Textbooks and supplementary resources organized by discipline and provider. Includes the following disciplines: Applied Science, Arts and Humanities; Business & Communications; Career & Technical Education; Education; U.S. & World History; Law; Life Science; Mathematics; Physical Science; Anthropology, Archeology, Cultural Geography & Linguistics; Economics; Political Science; Sociology & Social Work; and Psychology.

The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program created a free and open online library called SkillsCommons containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development with over 700 community colleges across the nation creating OER content. The OER can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed and remixed by an individual, institution, and industry for FREE with the proper attribution to the original author of the resources.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology makes ALL of their course materials available online for free.

Curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed to and used by an international education community.

Applies evidence-based course materials and teaching practices, helps you organize your course with well-aligned digital content and supplemental materials, and seamlessly integrates into your current LMS.

ROAM from Penn State University makes the high-quality open and affordable educational resources created at the university available under creative commons licensing.

Learning objects designed to condense information into small segments that are easy to understand. Sponsored by Wisconsin’s Technical Colleges and maintained by Fox Valley Technical College.

Manufacturing, employability, and compliance skills training.

Full courses for Kindergarten-12th Grade, Adult Education, and College Courses, too.

Open Syllabus is a non-profit research organization that collects and analyzes millions of syllabi to support novel teaching and learning applications. OpenSyllabus is a resource that can be helpful for locating frequently used textbooks by courses but also for policy comparison and other syllabi content.

Portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout.

This website consists of a series of 3D simulations (2 - 9 minutes long) on engineering technology topics.

The PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations

Learning activities in Mechanics, Oscillations and Waves, Electrodynamics, Optics, Thermodynamics, Theory of Relativity, Physics of Atoms, Nuclear Physics, and Solid State Physics.

A library-quality repository for sharing, discovering, retrieving, and archiving digital works in the humanities. Digital works available through MLA CORE include the following: peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations and theses, works in progress, conference papers, syllabi, abstracts, data sets, presentations, translations, book reviews, maps, charts, books, and book chapters.

Writing Commons (WC) is a peer-reviewed open education resource (OER) for college-level writers.