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Open Educational Resources

This guide is to help promote and educate about open educational resources in higher education.

Courseware

Open Access Courses and Lectures

  • OER Commons
    OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
  • PennState ROAM (Repository of Open and Affordable Materials)
    High-quality educational materials created by Penn State faculty, free and open for all to use.
  • MIT Open Courseware
    Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration is required.
  • TedED
    Browse hundreds of TED-Ed Animations and TED Talks - designed to spark the curiosity of your learners. You'll also find thousands of other video-based lessons organized by the subjects you teach.
  • Yale Open Courseware
    Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
  • Khan Academy
    Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.
  • Internet Archive Open Education Resources
    This library contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download.
  • Open UBC
    Open UBC is a curated collection of resources for faculty and students to learn about open scholarship and what it means to teach, learn, and research at UBC.