Open Educational Resources

Free plus-size stock photos available for all uses.

Anatomical illustrations for biology including human eye, shark skeleton, turtle skeleton, rabbit, and more.

Diverse library of customizable graphics of individual people and groups of people licensed under CCO.

Public Domain or CC images from museums, repositories, Flickr and more.

Digital collection of National Park photos from 1858 through the present day.

Find images with CC license with diverse groups of people. List of sources from OE Global Connect.

Free inclusive stock photos and videos.

The internet’s source of freely-usable images. CC images and provide attribution.

Free, shareable, copyright-free images.

Free stock images. Attribution appreciated, but not required.

Search engine for free Public Domain images.

Free Public Domain images categorized by topics such as insects, natural resources, people, lab research, crops, animals, field research, food and more.

Free stock photo image library.

Freely usable images released under Creative Commons licenses.

"AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout."

Curriki offers over 56,000 educational materials for free from around the world. Their mission is to provide learning materials freely available to educators, students, and parents around the world.

"HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects." Designed to provide access to quality education.

Modern Language Association Hub for open-access humanities scholarship, teaching materials, and more.

InTechOpen is the world's largest Science, Technology and Medicine Open Access book publisher. With a goal to provide free online access to research since 2004.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching brought to you by California State University. MERLOT II provides free textbooks and other materials for education.

The MCO created the Michigan Colleges Online Hub for our member institutions as a way to reduce costs for students, increase student success and completion, and allow for inter-institutional collaboration with faculty. Our Institutions are creating, sharing, and collaborating on high-quality OER for use in today's classrooms.

Offering over 2260 course materials free. MIT's goal is to "publish all course materials online and make them widely available to everyone."

Supported in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, created OER Commons as part of the Foundation’s worldwide OER initiative.

Free and open collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses.

Created by Washington Community and Technical College. Open course library with creative commons license. Free to use.

Library contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. To reuse these educational materials, see author's license information.

From the University of Michigan, access a range of course materials, videos, software tools, student work and more. Free to use.

Open Oregon Educational Resources promotes textbook affordability for community college students and facilitates widespread adoption of open, low-cost, high-quality materials.

Provided by Rice University and supported by many education foundations. OpenStax provides quality free textbooks to meet your course needs.

Florida's digital repository offering free resources for education.

The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program has created a free and open online library called SkillsCommons, a comprehensive collection of workforce-related Open Educational Resources (OER) created by over 700 community colleges across the nation.

From the University of Colorado Boulder, this site provides over 275 million interactive simulations for math and science.

Simulators for health professionals.

From George Mason University. Mason OER Metafinder simultaneously searches across the obvious OER repositories (e.g., MERLOT II, OAOpen.org, OER Commons, OpenStax CNX, etc.) but also sites like HathiTrust (full-view materials only), DPLA, OERs at Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg.

Mission: We are a global network of educational institutions, individuals and organizations that support an approach to education based on openness, including collaboration, innovation and collective development and use of open educational materials.

Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

Saylor offer nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels, each of which is available right now — at your pace, on your schedule, and free of cost.

Tufts University is committed to offering the world's learners free access to its many academic resources. Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) seeks to capitalize on the potential of the internet to eliminate borders and geographic distance as obstacles to the instantaneous exchange of knowledge and new ideas.