Where to find Open Education Resources, Tools, and Support: learning objects

Available at: eCampusOntario Open Library. 

eCampusOntario offers open courses and textbooks in a variety of disciplines. 

Available at: masonOER Metafinder.

Mason OER Metafinder is a federated search tool and searches several OER repositories simultaneously, including BC Campus, College Open Textbooks, HathiTrust, JSTOR Open books, Merlot, MIT Open Courseware, NYPL Digital Collections, OER Commons, Project Gutenburg. Search by OER specific sites.

Available at: MERLOT. 

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

Available at: Oasis. 

OASIS (Openly available sources integrated search) is a search tool for OERs that searches open content from 98 sources and contains over 350,000 records. It is developed by SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library. Results may be filtered by object type, subject, source, and CC license.

Available at: OER Commons.

This is for those who are just starting out with OERs. OER Commons is easy to use, contains newer content, and results can be filtered by material type. OER Commons contains “Open Author” which helps creators build OERs and publish them. Formats include media rich documents, lesson builders and module builders. It can also build microsites for organizations to index their own unique content library.

Available at: Open Waterloo. 

This site showcases a collection of open online resources for learning and knowledge creation/dissemination at the University of Waterloo. Open resources are freely available to users online, accessible by anyone from anywhere without discrimination and can be found in many formats from text and data, to audio, video and multi-media. 

Available at: SOL*R.

Description from the SOL*R website, "SOL*R is a repository service provided by BCcampus that allows educators to access FREE online learning resources. It facilitates sharing, discovery, reuse, and remixing of a growing collection of content created by BC post-secondary educators.

SOL*R includes learning resources from a wide variety of disciplines and subject areas. Resources range from open textbooks, individual learning activities and tools, all the way to full programs."

Available at: University of Oxford Podcasts.

Oxford’s Open Content allows for reuse, remixing and redistribution for education. Hundreds of courses are presented in the form of podcasts and include the instructor’s name, episode title, description of content, and date of recording. Content is browsable by series title, speaker, or departments and colleges.