Open Education Resources are freely available materials designed to assist in teaching and learning. This can range from textbooks to assessment tools to online course lessons (called OpenCourseWare or OCW).

General Information

• A Basic Guide to Open Education Resources from Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO
• Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources from the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

Directories and Search Tools

• ccLearn — Creative Commons’ OER Initiatives
• OER Commons
• OERu — the Open Educational Resource university
• Open Courseware Consortium Search Engine

Institutional Initiatives

• MIT Open CourseWare — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Open Michigan — University of Michigan
• Open Yale Courses — Yale University
• Opening Learning Initiative — Carnegie Mellon University
• Tufts Open CourseWare — Tufts University

Regional or National Initiatives

• The B.C. Open Textbook Project — BC Campus
• Learning Resource Exchange — European Schoolnet
• National Repository of Open Educational Resources — Government of India
• OER Africa — the South African Institute for Distance Education