Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.

A-Z	Repository	Source	Description
A	Aduni	ArsDigita University	This site serves a dual purpose. It is here to tell the story of ArsDigita University (ADU) and it is here to carry on the school's mission of supplying free education. Toward this latter end, ADUni.org provides all course materials and lectures generated during the program to the general public for free use.
	AESharenet	AESharenet	AEShareNet connects people who are looking for learning materials with those who own them. There are now two options available: Instant Licences, which are freely available, when you attach a relevant Mark; and Mediated licences, which are transacted online through the AEShareNet Service.
	Apple Learning Exchange	Apple	A searchable database of "thousands of Internet resources that can be valuable for teaching and learning"
	ARIADNE Repository	ARIADNE	A European Association open to the World, for Knowledge Sharing and Reuse. The core of the ARIADNE infrastructure is a distributed network of learning repositories.
	Artificial Intelligence topics	American Association for Artificial Intelligence	AI TOPICS is a special web site provided by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence [AAAI] for students, teachers, journalists, and everyone who would like to learn about what artificial intelligence is, and what AI scientists do.
B	Berklee Shares	U. Berklee	Here you will find free music lessons that you can download, share and trade with your friends and fellow musicians. Berklee Shares is: 1) Individual self-contained music lessons developed by Berklee faculty and alumni. 2) Free and open to the music community around the world. 3) A library of MP3 audio, QuickTime movie, and PDF files. 4) A glimpse into the educational opportunities provided by Berklee.
	Blue Web'n	-	Blue Web'n is an online library of 2008 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can also browse by broad subject area (Content Areas) or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). See "About this Site" for a scoring rubric and answers to other burning questions!
C	CAREO (Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects)	University of Calgary	CAREO is a project supported by Alberta Learning and CANARIE that has as its primary goal the creation of a searchable, Web-based collection of multidisciplinary teaching materials for educators across the province and beyond.
	CITIDEL	Cooperative effort of Virginia Tech, Villanova, TCNJ, Hofstra, and PSU. Funded by the National Science Foundation.	A collaboration between Hofstra University, the College of New Jersey, Pennsylvania State University, Villanova University and Virginia Tech, as part of the US National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library Project, to create a portal to computing education. CITIDEL is a digital library of educational resources for the computing field, harvested from ten differerent source collections.
	Civicus	Civicus	CUS aims to help civil society organisations to build their capacity and achieve their goals. Based on requests from members, CIVICUS has produced several toolkits to enable organisations to improve their capacity in a number of areas. From communications and planning skills to writing funding proposals, we hope that you will be able to get many useful tips, tools, and ideas to help strengthen your organisation. Toolkits are available in English, French, Spanish and Russian in MS Word and PDF formats.
	CLOE	University of Waterloo	The Co-operative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE) is a collaboration between Ontario universities and colleges for the development, sharing, and reuse of multimedia-rich learning resources. This occurs through the CLOE Learning Object repository.
	Connexions	Rice University	Connexions is a rapidly growing collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software tools to help authors publish and collaborate instructors rapidly build and share custom courses learners explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines. The Content of Commons contains small "knowledge chunks" we call modules that connect into courses. Thanks to a Creative Commons open license, anyone can take our materials, adapt them to meet their needs, and contribute them back to the Commons. And everyone is invited to participate!
	Content Bank	The Children�s Partnership	Contentbank aims to spur the development of online content and tools for and by low-income and other underserved Americans.
	CORE	China Open Resource for Education	CORE��China Open Resource for Education--- is a non-profit organization. Her mission is to promote closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities, which CORE envisions as the future of world education.
D	DAREnet	SURF Foundation	DAREnet was launched in January 2004. Intentionally to demonstrate the network of the local collections of digital documentation held by all the Dutch universities and several related institutions, presenting them to the user in a consistent form. This also makes it possible to search one or more of the repositories concerned. DAREnet is unique. No other nation in the world offers such easy access to its complete academic research output in digital form.
	Development Gateway	Development Gateway Foundation	Open Educational Resources (OERs) are digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research. Their goal with this service is to support efforts to equalize access to education, and to improve life chances for people in developing countries. This site will serve as a freely accessible venue for the aggregation and dissemination of OERs worldwide.
	Digital Divide Network	Center for Media & Community at the Education Development Center	The Digital Divide Network is the Internet's largest community for educators, activists, policy makers and concerned citizens working to bridge the digital divide. At DDN, you can build your own online community, publish a blog, share documents and discussions with colleagues, and post news, events and articles.
	DLorn	Stephen Downes	One-stop source for learning object syndication. They retrieve learning object metadata from across the web and store it here.
E	Edna	Educational Network Australia	EdNA Online is a service that aims to support and promote the benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in Australia. It is organised around Australian curriculum, its tools are free to Australian educators, and it is funded by the bodies responsible for education provision in Australia - all Australian governments.
	Education Reform Portal	National Institute for Community Innovations	The National Institute for Community Innovations, in collaboration with a growing number of internationally recognized expert communities in educational reform, has developed national networks of leaders skilled in assisting schools, districts, preparation programs and large-scale educational systems to plan and undertake sustained educational reform efforts with regard to the reform dimensions below. Each of these networks has identified exemplary, free and inexpensive professional development materials about proven and promising reform strategies and resources in a given reform dimension.
	EduResources Portal	Eastern Oregon University	A Gateway to Higher Education Instructional Resources.
	eGranary Digital Library	The University of Iowa	The eGranary Digital Library provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers INSIDE our partner institutions in developing countries, we deliver millions of multimedia documents that can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks at no cost.
	Eldis	Eldis	Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research. Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research.
	e-Lee	e-LEE Association (e-learning tools for electrical engineering)	The association named "Association for promotion of e-Learning tools for Electrical Engineering", or, on short "e-LEE Association", has as aim the promotion and evaluation of the multimedia learning tools for the engineering teaching, more specifically for electrical engineering.
	ESCOT Component Catalogue	National Science Foundation	Educational Software Components of Tomorrow (ESCOT) is a National Science Foundation research project (REC-9804930) at SRI International's Center for Technology in Learning. We are investigating how software innovations can accumulate, integrate, and scale up to meet the needs of systemic reform of K-12 mathematics and science education.
	Ethiopian Teacher Education Portal	AED/BESO Project	-
	EEVL (Enhanced and Evaluated Virtual Library)		EEVL is the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. EEVL's mission is to provide access to quality networked engineering, mathematics and computing resources, and be the national focal point for online access to information in these subjects. It is an award-winning free service, created and run by a team of information specialists from a number of universities and institutions in the UK.
F	Fathom Archive	Fathom Knowledge Network	This archive, provided by Columbia University, offers access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions. Columbia encourages you to browse this archive of online learning resources, including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and free seminars. You can find additional online resources from Columbia University at ci.columbia.edu or cero.columbia.edu and from the members of the Fathom consortium at their own websites.
	Filamentality	-	A "fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities."
G	Free-Ed	Free-Ed.net	The mission of Free-Ed.Net is to provide quality distance education at no cost to the user. Free education is a dream whose time has come. Never in history has so much information and so many learning resources been so widely available at such a low cost.
	GEM	Gateway to Educational Materials	The Gateway to Educational Materials^SM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
	GFC Global Learning	GCG Global Learning	Offering free, beginning computer courses and other learning opportunities world-wide in English and Spanish.
	Gutenberg Project	Gutenberg Project	Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.
H	Harvey Project	Harvey Project	An international collaboration of educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers, instructional designers and graphic artists working together to build interactive, dynamic human physiology course materials on the Web. Materials produced by the Harvey Project will be made freely available to any educational institution.
	Humbul Humanities Hub	University of Oxford	The Humbul Humanities Hub aims to be UK higher and further education's first choice for accessing online humanities resources.
I	iberry.com	iberry.com	iberry.com is a non-profit making, private website, serving the international academic community since 1999. It is home to the highly-focused Higher Education Links List (HELL), providing information and resources for educators, researchers and others with an interest in Higher Education (HE).
	IBM University Initiative	IBM	The IBM University Initiative helps faculty and researchers at higher education institutions worldwide use and implement the latest technology into curriculum and research. By joining, you will gain access to software, hardware, training, course materials, and more!
	ICONEX	University of Hull	-
	ICT4D.ph	Dept. of Science and technology of Philippines and the IDRC of Canada	"Learning from Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) Research to Enhance Policymaking ( Philippines )" is a project of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). It is supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, through its program initiative, Pan Asia Networking (PAN). The project aims to identify the transformational impact of ICT on Philippine society and from the learnings distilled from the different ICT4D projects undertaken, transform these learnings into policies and actions. ICT4D includes digital and interactive technologies as well as technologies which provide for interfaces between traditional and new technologies. The use of those technologies should be development-oriented.
	ICTdev Library	Commonwealth Telecom Organization	The CTO's ICT Development Digital Library (ICT DevLibrary) provides a unique collection of ICT-for-development reports and documents for policy-makers and practitioners in developing countries. It uniquely provides direct, �one-click� access to these documents, and makes these often bulky documents accessible to users on low bandwidth connections. Stocked with key reports published by the leading organisations in the field, the ICT Development Library supplements ICT Development Agenda, the CTO�s web-based newsletter which provides breaking, objective updates on the outcomes of decision-making meetings and summaries of important new reports.
	ICTlogy	Ismael Pe�a	ICT4D Courses is a learning objects repository focused on development and cooperation for development, with a strong commitment on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). All of them are licensed for free or under determinate licenses that allow you to use them almost freely - details on specific licenses will appear attached to respective learning materials.
	IDEAS (Interactive Dialogue with Educators from Across the State)	University of Wisconsin	IDEAS provides Wisconsin educators access to high-quality, highly usable, teacher-reviewed web-based resources for curricula, content, lesson plans, professional development and other selected resources. These resources help Wisconsin educators use technology to meet the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards and create the foundation for a statewide knowledge management system.
	IIIKM (International Institute of Innovation & Knowledge Management)	A Joint project of Knowledge Management Society of Pakistan and Free and Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan	To Be an Enduring World-Class Institute of Emerging Disciplines Promoting Knowledge Capitalism for the betterment of Individuals, Organizations and Societies through Education & Research.
	InfoDev	The infoDev Program	infoDev is an innovative global partnership of international development agencies focused on how information and communication technologies (ICT) can help to combat poverty and promote opportunity, empowerment and economic growth in developing countries. This partnership is coordinated and served by an expert Secretariat housed at the World Bank, one of infoDev's principal donors and founders.
	Isoph Institute	Isoph	The Isoph Institute is a resource center dedicated to the development of the organizational effectiveness of nonprofits through online education, training, and collaboration. By providing online courses, resources, and tools, we make it possible for people committed to the growth and development of nonprofits to access the information and skills they need.
	ItrainOnline's Training Kit	Itrain Online	Supported by ItrainOnline partner UNESCO and others, the MMTK is a growing collection of "workshop kits" for face-to-face training. The materials use a standard set of templates, and offer building blocks for trainers to build their own courses.
J	JHSPH OCW		The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OpenCourseWare (OCW) project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses. It provides free, searchable, access to JHSPH's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
	JORUM (JISC)	Joint Information Systems Committee	JORUM is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.
K	KM4Dev	Bellanet	KM for Development (KM4Dev) is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches.
L	La Brecha Digital	El Portal de la Brecha Digital	-
	LAMS Community	LAMS	This website is the global online community for all teachers, administrators and developers that use LAMS. Within the various subcommunities, you can access the latest news about LAMS, many different discussion forums, and a repository of shared LAMS sequences.
	LearnAlberta.ca	Alberta Education/ Government of Alberta	LearnAlberta.ca supports lifelong learning by providing quality online resources to the Kindergarten to Grade 12 (K-12) community in Alberta. Students, teachers, and parents can use the site to find multimedia learning resources that are correlated to the Alberta programs of study. LearnAlberta.ca provides a reliable and innovative repository of resources developed by Alberta Education in consultation with stakeholders; it is available for users at any time on the Internet.
	Learning About Learning Objects	Learning About Learning Objects	-
	LearningLanguages.net	Internet Scout Project and the University of Wisconsin College of Letters and Sciences, with funding from the Claire Giannini Hoffman Fund.	LearningLanguages.net is a portal that brings together the best online foreign language resources for English-speaking K-12 students and teachers. The project was created, and is maintained and enhanced, by a team of staff and students at the Internet Scout Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
	LOLA Exchage	Wesleyan University	LoLa is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. It contains materials for use across the curriculum, with a particular focus on modules for Information Literacy.
	London School of Economics	London School of Economics	Public Lectures and Transcripts from a range of speakers and invited lecturers.
	Lydia Global Repository	Lydia	LydiaLearn starts with LydiaPower, a new way to bring publishers in need of educational content and those who could offer it, together. A simple proposition, yes, but with a solution that included algorithmic rating systems, dynamic repositories of ever-growing and improving content, and a means of tracking and securing payment that would be a win for all involved.
M	Managing the Digital Enterprise	Michael Rappa	An educational site created by Michael Rappa that surveys the many opportunities and challenges managers face in an increasingly digital world.
	Maricopa Learning Exchange	Maricopa	The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as "packages") that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.
	Math Forum		One of the oldest collections of learning materials on the Internet, The Math Forum is a leading center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet. The Math Forum is a learning repository for both interactive and text-based materials as well as a site for mathematics educators and learners to engage in person-to-person interactions, and discuss and exchange educational products and services. The Math Forum encourages the exchange of educational materials by facilitating dialog and connections among educators.
	Merlot	Merlot	MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
	MIT Dspace	MIT	MIT's online institutional repository � built to save, share, and search MIT's digital research materials.
	MIT OpenCourseWare Master Course List Video & Audio Index	MIT	A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.
	MIT World	MIT	MIT World is a free, open streaming media web site of the most significant public events at MIT. It features the most recent speakers and guests from across the campus and around the world. It is a project of the Professional Education Programs at MIT's School of Engineering.
	Monterey Institute for Technology and Education National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)	Monterey Institute for Technology and Education	A growing library of high-quality online courses for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement. Courses in the NROC library are contributed by developers from leading online-learning programmes across the US.