RCC Research Guides: OER (Open Educational Resource): Ancillary OER Materials

Finding Ancillary Educational Resources

ABLConnect ABLConnect is an online repository for active learning in higher education. ABLConnect is a cross-university effort. Run out of Harvard's Book Center, partners include Yale, MIT, Cornell, & MassBay.
The Commonwealth of Learning "...an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/ distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training."
Creative Commons Search for resources that have been given a Creative Commons license by the rightsholder
Jorum Learning and Research Resources "Jorum is the place where you will find free open educational resources produced by the UK Further and Higher Education community."
The Internet Archive Primarily comprises courses and lectures
Merlot (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) "MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy....MERLOT's strategic goal is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses."
OER Commons "The OER Commons website was created to help educators, students, and lifelong learners find Open Educational Resources that are already posted somewhere on the Internet....This site is a structured database of links to high-quality resources found on other websites. OER Commons provides a single point of access through which educators, students, and all learners can search,browse, evaluate, and discuss over 30,000 high-quality OER."
Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations (OPDPO) [Creative Commons] "...is a wiki-database of organizations involved in providing educational content online. Currently, ODEPO includes 1183 sites affiliated with various organizations, the majority of which were provided to us by educational repositories involved in the creation and expansion of Open Educational Resources (OER)."
Open Osmosis "Open Osmosis is an initiative committed to developing & disseminating health education resources with the ultimate aim of making healthcare more accessible." Included here are videos, images, and practice questions in a variety of clinical domains.
VAL Virtual Analytical Lab VAL was produced by Biomedical Science staff in the School of Allied Health Sciences at De Montfort University. It provides laboratory resources for students, with the aim that they work through these resources before entering the laboratory.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Over 375,000 images of artworks in the public domain freely available for unrestricted use.
Data Sets for Statistics Useful data for use in statistical queries.
Digital Commons Network The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
Xpert "Learners and educators can use XPERT to search a growing database of open learning resources suitable for students at all levels of study in a wide range of different subjects." funded by UK-based JISC.