Open Educational Resources @ UW Tacoma: Find OER
Resources for adopting, adapting, and writing open educational resources (OER).
Find open materials including videos, images, textbooks, and more
Find Textbooks
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OASISOpenly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool for finding open content, including textbooks, courses, course modules, audiobooks, video and more.
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OER CommonsA large repository that includes all kinds of Open Educational Resources. Use the search limiters to narrow by education level, material type (i.e. Textbooks) and subject
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MerlotOnline teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. Includes open textbooks. The Material Type and Audience limiters in Advanced Search are particularly helpful.
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Open Textbook LibraryComplete textbooks that have been reviewed by a variety of college and university faculty, and can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. Includes the OpenStax collection.
Find Images
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Creative Commons Search"Find content you can share, use and remix." A website that allows you to search the content of various online media repositories with an emphasis on works under the creative commons license.
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Flickr Creative CommonsImages provided by Flickr users that are available under a Creative Commons license.
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Getty Open Content SearchSearch for open content across the Getty's collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, and the Getty Research Institute.
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Wikimedia CommonsHistorical and contemporary images contributed by participants. Millions of high-resolution images of art, architecture, design, people, historical events, diagrams, maps, and more.
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UnsplashOver 1,000,000 openly licensed, high resolution images.
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The Gender Spectrum CollectionThe Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. This collection aims to help media better represent members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities.
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Smithsonian Open Access Images2D and 3D images from the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. All images have been released into the public domain and are available to use, transform and share without additional permissions.
Find Video
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Vimeo Creative Commons Licensed VideosBrowse through all of the Creative Commons licensed videos available on Vimeo.
Find Courses
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Open Course LibraryA project of the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges, the Open Course Library offers course materials for 81 of Washington's most enrolled college courses.
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Saylor.orgSaylor offers full courses online. It can be really helpful to use the reading lists from Saylor to find and organize your courses.
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Boundless CoursesCourses originally developed by the company Boundless, and currently maintained by Lumen Learning. Includes texts broken into chapters and modules, so that part or a whole chapter or book can be incorporated into a course.
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OASISOpenly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool for finding open content, including textbooks, courses, course modules, audiobooks, video and more.
Find Public Domain Resources
Public domain resources are works that are not protected by copyright, and are therefore free to use. Typically this refers to works whose intellectual property right have expired, been forfeited, or are otherwise inapplicable.
This page is under development. Check back later for updates.
Find Animations & Learning Objects
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Wisc-OnlineA collaborative effort from the 16 colleges in the Wisconsin Technical College System this resource provides 'learning objects' or small modules for basic concepts like "summarizing" in the humanities or the "anatomy of the heart" in life sciences. Has a robust browsing function.
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PhET Interactive SimulationsInteractive simulations for science and math.
Find OER by Subject
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Discipline Specific OER (TCC)This guide from Tacoma Community College provides starting points for finding OER in your field. Check TCC's OER Guides by Subject for curated lists of resources by discipline.
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Open Educational Resources by Subject Disciplines (WCC)Curated lists of textbooks, videos, and other course materials by discipline from From Washtenaw Community College.
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Open Educational Resources by Subject (BU)This guide from From Bethel University provides links to web-based resources including public domain documents, images, video, syllabi, and interactive elements. Be aware that some sites linked from this page also include non-OER materials.
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OERs by Subject (FU)This resource from Furman University includes lists of open textbooks, interactive and multimedia resources, open courseware, and more.