What are OER?
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Source: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
For more definitions of OER, see the Creative Commons Wiki.
Evaluating OERs
Assessing OER Implementation
Where to find OERs
Search for content with a Creative Commons license
Search all indexed, open access journals
Federated real-time search for OER materials from 21 repositories
Illinois Open Educational Resources including educational and career content
Index of discipline-specific learning materials by California State University system
Searches open content from 79 different sources and contains 324,517 records
Collection of OERs from the SUNY & CUNY project
Peer-reviewed, open license textbooks, hosted by Rice University
Peer-reviewed textbooks provided though the University of Minnesota
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