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Tunxis Going Open: Open Educational Resources And Open Pedagogy

Information about Open Educational Resources (OER) – what they are, what they might become and how Tunxis can get in on the action!

Open Access Books

Find Open Textbooks Related to a Book
Enter textbook ISBN to get OER options from MERLOT collections. Site includes links to major OER sources. From California State Universities.
College Open Textbooks: This effort funded by the Hewlett Foundation, seeks to drive adoption of open textbooks. Many of the books shared on this resources are reviewed.
Open Stax: Rice Connexions is providing peer reviewed, quality open textbooks. There are some amazing textbooks available here, but some are still in production.
Open Academics: University of Minnesota collection of open textbooks with full reviews.
Global Textbook Project: High-level texts hosted or created by the University of Georgia.
Wikibooks: A project of the Wikimedia Foundation, this collection of group written textbooks in a variety of sources follows rules similar to Wikipedia.
Project Gutenberg: Find the full text of classics and public domain works from the first massive ebook creating organization in existence. Nothing fancy here, just files with the full text.BC OpenEd a curated collection of open textbooks, many reviewed by British Columbia faculty.

Large Repositories

OER Commons: This resource seeks to collect and distribute a variety of OER at a variety of levels and subjects.
MERLOT: One of the biggest OER repositories, but a bit unwieldy and difficult to search. Use limiting options on the left side of results page
Connexions: Large repository of individual teachers' content, some courses and lots of modular writings about a variety of topics.
The Orange Grove: Florida's collection of open ed sources.
Open Scout:UK based database of business skills teaching resources. Includes articles, tutorials, video and much more in a variety of languages.
AMSER: Materials in the Applied Math and Science Educational Repository are free for use and adaptation. Most resources are at the high school and community college levels.
Edsitement!: Learning objects and lessons from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It offers a large collection of peer evaluated websites.

Images and Artwork

The Met Open Access
Search 200,000 public-domain artworks in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that the Museum has already digitally catalogued.
Pixabay
Images free to use without attribution (but note that top row of results usually contains pay for use images).
Flickr: Creative Commons
A collection of images published on Flickr using a Creative Commons license.
NY Public Library Digital Gallery
Free and open access to over 800,000 digital images from the New York Public Library's collections.
U.S. Government Photos & Images
A collection of photos and images, some of which are in the public domain or U.S. government works and may be used without permission or fee. However, some images may be protected by license or copyright.

Syllabi

Open Syllabus Explorer: The OSP is an effort to make the intellectual judgment embedded in syllabi relevant to broader explorations of teaching, publishing, and intellectual history.  The project has collected over 1 million syllabi.

Tools for Open Pedagogy

GraphLock
A scientific calculator app you can download for $4.99/year or use free online.

Hypothes.is: "Annotate the web with anyone, anywhere"The Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site.

Complete Courses

Lumen Leaning: Full Oer Courses in high enrollment subjects

Open Courseware: An independent search engine that indexes open education classes from places like MIT, Yale and UMass.
Saylor.org: Saylor offers full courses online. It can be really helpful to use the reading lists from Saylor to find and organize your courses.
Open Course Library: The WA Open Course Library project offers 81 of Washington's most enrolled courses. There are a lot of great readings in these course files.
LearningSpace from Open University: All of the learning materials presented on this site are CC licensed, but don't confuse "Learning Spaces" with the full Open University- their licensing/copyrights are different.
Academic Earth Find free online courses, lectures, and videos from top universities like Yale, Stanford, MIT, and more.
OCW Utah: Open education course materials aimed at a high school level.
Bridge to Success: Materials, mostly study skills, to support students transitioning to college.

 

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resource Textbook for $1 per chapter

Research Articles

Public Library of Science: An open publisher whose mission is to change the nature of sharing scientific research through open access.
Directory of Open Access Journals: The most comprehensive collection of open access journals in a variety of disciplines. Unfortunately, you can search by journal subject, but not by article subject.

Videos and Films

Moving Image Archive
A large collection of videos, films and movies that are open and free for your educational use.

The Open Video Project
A repository of open access videos free for your educational use.

Multimedia and Other Digital Collections

Open Culture: The best free cultural and educational media on the web
Ted: Inspiring thinkers on a range of subjects present big ideas and lectures on a regular basis- completely CC licensed.
Wikimedia Commons: The thinkers behind Wikipedia bring you images, video and music all openly licensed or in the public domain.
HippoCampus: HippoCampus, a project of the Monterey Institute of Technology and Education (MITE), is full of high-quality resources in a variety of subjects. It is aimed at high school and college level users.
New York Public Library Digital Collections This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
PhET Science Simulations: These interactive tools from the University of Colorado at Boulder are mostly CC licensed
Jamendo: Songs by musicians who want to share their music
cc Mixter ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Sound Cloud Explore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audio. Check for terms of use.
Restorm restorm.com is a music platform designed to help musicians; check for specific terms of use.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is  a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.
LibriVox Free public domain audiobooks
CLIP Information Literacy Tutorials Find great tutorials on information and research competencies.