Open Educational Resources (OERs) @ Hostos: FIND existing OER materials

Supports faculty in identifying and selecting high quality OER. Some courses have assignments and interactive check your understanding sections.
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"Unlike other OER discovery sites (e.g, OER Commons, OASIS, MERLOT, OpenStax, etc.) with our Metafinder you aren’t searching a static database that we’ve built. Instead, the OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials."
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A web-based publication of materials from thousands of MIT courses. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. May include audio or video lectures, assignments, and syllabi.
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Course materials from Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. Includes syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments.
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Course content including readings and lecture videos with Yale professors.
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Provides a "range of course materials, videos, lectures, student work and more. Nearly all of the content here is openly licensed for reuse under Creative Commons."
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Collection of freely available open textbooks for download, online reading, and sharing. Scroll to the bottom of the page for content.
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FREE and OPEN Workforce Training Materials for 21st Century Employment

Rice University's initiative of free textbooks - developed and peer-reviewed to meet the scope/sequence requirements of college courses. 59 as of 1/2/21
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Open textbooks for 40 highest enrolled 1st and 2nd year subjects in British Columbia's public college system.
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LibreTexts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and provides a more engaging learning experience for students without the financial burden.
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University of Minnesota project for the development of high-quality open textbooks in various subjects. 822 as of 1/2/21.
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SUNY Libraries, Milne Open Textbooks publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed textbooks for use in higher education. 26 as of 1/2/21.
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University-quality textbooks. Most are reviewed and contain exercises, discussion questions, problem sets.

Free ebooks from one of the first public domain book portals. Search by subject.
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Peer-edited advanced books but may be a main option for less common subject areas, like game design.
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Thousands of open access ebooks and journal articles available from top scholarly publishers. Not the same as the JSTOR journal database.

Offers open access (OA) books and journals from several distinguished university presses and scholarly presses.
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Curated collection of free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
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A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Very popular, high quality, and appealing videos in a wide variety of subject areas.
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Collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
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Users may freely view and download the videos without restraint. The website is provided as a public service; however, use wisely, as TED videos have a CC BY NC ND 4.0 license.
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Millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos. A separate Creative Commons-licensed video collection makes thee filtering process much easier. Free registration required.
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Millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos (among their billions of video collections). The key is filtering them to isolate the Creative Commons-licensed ones. The link shows you how to do this.

Combines together the image collections of Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, as well as several museum collections. Each image record includes an "Attributions" tab.
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1 Billion+ photos. Filter by color, usage rights, date, size, orientation, etc.
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Search keywords or even upload an image. Once you have your results, click the tools and use the "usage rights" drop down to limit to "Creative Commons licenses." You may also limit by word, color, image size, image type, etc.
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Over 3 million creative commons icons and photos to communicate any idea, available as PNG or SVG. Free plan requires attributions but other plans available as well.
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1.9 million+ images, videos, and audio. Free usage. Attribution appreciated.
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1 million+ high resolution images. Free usage. Attribution requested.

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 514 billion archived web pages.