SUNY Empire Library Webpages & Guides: Open Educational Resources: "Single Serving" OERs

Repositories of OERs

These resources are for finding OERs that are smaller and more granular than open textbooks and open courses. There are audiovideo, interactive, text, and more. Please check the licensing on each individual object, because many repositories mix open content with content that is merely free!

Chem Collective - Online Resources for Teaching and Learning Chemistry
Carnegie Melon. OER about chemistry concepts and lab skills, including an HTML5 virtual lab.
Roy Rozenzweig Center for History and New Media - World History Sources
Multimedia modules on history research methodology.
COOL4Ed (California Open Online Library for Education)
Open Textbooks, Open Courses, and other kinds of OERs. Also links to Open Access journals (which are not OER, but are free to access.)
Exemplary Collection of Open eLearning Content Repositories
Ilumina
University of North Carolina Wilmington with support from a grant from the National Science Foundation. STEM learning materials that are "copyright free for non-commercial use." They are not CC licensed, and may not be remixable. Some are not accessible.
The Learning Exchange
part of the UK Digital Library of Social Science
FSI Language Courses from the US State Department
Public domain language learning ebooks and multimedia produced by the US State Department and Department of Defense. (The Peace Corps content is free, but not public domain!!)
MERLOT II
A platform for creating, editing, and sharing Open Educational Resources on all topics, for all grade levels, and also for rating, reviewing, modifying, and using the OERs created by others. You can sign up to be a peer reviewer, and some of the OERs are formally peer reviewed.
K-16.
NanoHUB
Courses, simulations, models, tools, exercises, lectures, and assessments on nanoscience. Some are OER, others are only free.
National Science Digital Library
Open Educational Resources - Creative Commons licensed teaching and learning resources for all levels of science, technology, engineering, & math education. From the OER Commons.
OER Africa
Huge collection of OER produced by faculty at African colleges and universities, on all topics. Particularly strong in health sciences, teacher education, and agriculture.
OER Commons
OERs contributed by educational institutions, non-profit organizations, museums, libraries, non-governmental organizations, and government agencies. All subject areas, types, and levels.
Open DOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)
Centre for Research Communications, UK
Open Michigan
Mostly OER content, some free, created by faculty from the University of Michigan. All topics, levels, and types.
Open Of Course
PBS Learning Media
Formerly PBS Teacher Source.
Teaching Commons
OERs from colleges and universities, curated by librarians. All types, levels, and topics.
VideoLectures.net
VideoLectures.net is a free, open access, creative commons licensed repository
Wikiversity
Wikimedia Foundation
Wisc-Online
Wisconsin Technical College System. Granular learning objects on all topics, created by University of Wisconsin faculty.
YouTube #Education
University-sponsored videos & channels on YouTube. Some of these works are copyrighted. Others are Open Educational Resources.