Find & Build OER

• OER Commons (search based on subject areas, education levels, and standards)

• Gooru (K-12 courses and instructional materials)

• ShareMyLessons (search K-12 resources based on education levels and standards)

Math

• GeoGebra (interactive Math materials)

Math/Science

• PhET (K-12 simulations)

• CK-12 (K-12 Math & Science resources)

• The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (Secondary Math and ELA)

• Siyavula (open textbooks for high school Math and Science)

Science/Math

• PhET (K-12 simulations)

• CK-12 (K-12 Math & Science resources)

• Mountain Heights Academy (course materials in high school  STEM, Language Arts)

• The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (Secondary Math and ELA)

• Siyavula (open textbooks for high school Math and Science)

• EDSITEment (K-12 Arts & Humanities Lessons by US National Endowment for the Humanities. Lessons are licensed under are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Conditions of use section for any exceptions.)

• The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (Secondary ELA and Math)

• Bookdash (children’s PDF eBooks and audiobooks)

• African Storybook (children’s eBooks in various languages)

• Public Domain Core Collection (Collection of classic literature)

• Feedbooks (public domain ebooks)

• Project Gutenberg (comprehensive collection of public domain books)

• Google Advanced Search (Scroll down in advanced search and set “usage rights” parameters to “free to use, share, or modify”)

• Openverse Searches multiple platforms. Can filter results to video, image, audio etc.

• CC Search (The CC Search tool automatically filters your search to find Creative Commons licensed resources)

• EDUimages by All4Ed A free/searchable library of CC-licensed images of teachers and students. Created in 2021 and reflects diverse, current classrooms. 

• Open Verse  Search over 700 Million openly licensed or public domain creative works (photos, images, audio). A Creative Commons Initiative. 

• Wikimedia Commons A searchable collection of over 103 million freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. 

• Google Image (Search Image Search, then look for TOOLS above results. Click on USAGE RIGHTS to select Creative Commons.)

• Flickr Photo sharing site. Includes paid stock photos. Look for option to filter by license type and choose Creative Commons (left, under the colours grid). Click on each photo to to verify its license. 

• Unsplash High quality photos, free to use. Attribution not required but is recommended according to the Unsplash license.  

• Pixabay Free to use. Pre-2019 photos are in public domain with a CC0 license. The remaining fall under the Pixabay license, which permits you to modify, adapt, reuse, redistribute. Attribution not required but recomnmended. 

• The Noun Project - Collection of CC Licensed Icons

• Europeana (Access to digital resources of Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. Not all the works are openly licensed so be sure to check for usage rights)

• YouTube (Type in your search term followed by a comma and then “creativecommons”. The videos returned are CC licensed. For example: World War 1, "creativecommons")

• Vimeo (post and search for Creative Commons licensed videos)

• Internet Archive (a great collection of old video and movie footage)

• TED - Ideas Worth Spreading (All TED videos are released under a  Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license)

• Al Jazeera (various Creative Commons licenses)

• Jamendo - free music tracks licensed under Creative Commons

• ccMixter / digccmixter (music for videos, games, podcasts, etc.)

• Free Music Archive

• SoundCloud