Open Access Or Creative Commons Licensed Educational Resources

Open Access or Creative Commons Licensed Educational Resources

Please check the license or terms of use for each resource. They generally allow re-use, copying and distribution for personal or educational use but some may restrict modifications or derivative works.

Textbooks

· Open Educational Resources – http://www.oercommons.org/. Include open textbooks, career and vocational educational resources, lesson plans, etc. Browseable by subjects, grade levels, media format, etc.

· College Open Textbooks – http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

· Flat World Knowledge - http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/. Textbooks. Business & Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Professional and Applied Sciences, and Mathematics

· InTech- http://www.intechweb.org/. Physical and health science books.

· Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.ca/. Classics and books in the public domain.

Repositories of Teaching and Learning Resources

· MERLOT - http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm.

· BC Campus SOL*R - http://solr.bccampus.ca/wp/. Teaching and learning resources posted by BC public post-secondary educators.

· Open Educational Resources Archive – http://www.archive.org/details/education

· Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org/

Music and Audio

· International Music Score Project - http://imslp.org/

· CCMixter - http://ccmixter.org/. Music and audio clips to listen to, sample or mash-up.

· Freesound - http://www.freesound.org/

Multimedia Learning Objects

· WISC Online - http://www.wisc-online.com/Default.aspx. Learning objects, videos.

· PhET from U of Colorado - http://phet.colorado.edu/. Interactive simulations

Open Courseware

· MIT Open Courseware – http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

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

· OCW Search - http://www.ocwsearch.com/

· Open University’s LearnSpace - http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/. Includes a course on how to create your own open educational resources.

· Saylor - http://www.saylor.org/

· P2PU - http://p2pu.org/en/

· WaSP Interact - http://interact.webstandards.org/

Journals

· Open Medicine - http://www.openmedicine.ca/. Canadian and peer-reviewed

· Directory of Open Access Journals - http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home&uiLanguage=en. A directory of scholarly journals which covers many subjects

Videos

· YouTube Education - http://www.youtube.com/education

· Khan Academy - http://www.khanacademy.org/. Instructional videos

· Brightstorm - http://www.brightstorm.com/. Tutorials, videos

· Academic Earth http://academicearth.org/

· Annenberg Learner http://www.learner.org/index.html

· BBC - Teachers http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/

· BBC Video Nation http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/videos/

· CBC Archives http://www.cbc.ca/archives/

· Documentary Heaven http://documentaryheaven.com/

· Free Video Lectures, Online Courses and tutorials from top colleges, universitieshttp://freevideolectures.com/

· HotDocs Library www.hotdocslibrary.ca/en

· MERLOT http://www.merlot.org/index.htm

· MIT Video http://video.mit.edu/

· Moving Image ARCHIVE http://archive.org/details/movies

· Museum of Broadcast http://www.museum.tv/

· PBS Video http://video.pbs.org/

· Teachers Domain http://www.teachersdomain.org/

· Teacher Tube http://www.teachertube.com/

· TED Talks http://www.ted.com/

· YouTube EDU http://www.youtube.com/education

Images

· Creative Commons Search - http://search.creativecommons.org/

· Flickr Creative Commons - http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

· Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

· The Noun Project - http://thenounproject.com/

· Public Health Image Library from US - http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp. “Images are royalty-free and available for personal, professional and educational use in electronic or print media, with appropriate citation.”

· Pics4Learning - http://www.pics4learning.com/

Activities

· E-tivities - http://evolve-e-learning.wikidot.com/etivities

Tutorials

· WikiHow - http://www.wikihow.com/