Resource Guides: OER DIY Guide: Locating OER Resources and Licenses

How do I know if a resource is open?

The work is in the public domain.
The work indicates it has an Open license such as a Creative Commons license.

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You may see license information such as this:

OER Collections may include textbooks, lesson plans, course materials, and interactive media. To find textbooks only, click the Open Textbooks tab (left).

#GoOpen Michigan
#GoOpen Michigan is a community of educators and learners who access and contribute free, openly licensed, high-quality digital resources to enable equitable transformative learning experiences.
CORA - Community of Online Research Assignments
An open access resource for faculty and librarians.
MDPI Mutidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
MDPI currently publishes 330 peer-reviewed journals and is continuously expanding its portfolio.MDPI currently publishes 330 peer-reviewed journals and is continuously expanding its portfolio.
MERLOT
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), a program of the California State University Long Beach, provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
OER Commons
A public digital library of open educational resources; a place to explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations.
Teaching Commons
The Teaching Commons showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges. Curated by librarians and their institutions and hosted by bepress, the Teaching Commons includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more.