Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Open Educational Resources

Offers an extensive collection of online learning materials, all of which are peer reviewed and rated by 15 discipline-specific editorial boards including biology, business, history, music, psychology, world languages, and information technology.

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

OER-based courses for anyone in the world to access

The Open Education Consortium (OEC) is a non-profit, global, member-based network of open education institutions and organizations. OEC represents its members and provides advocacy and leadership around the advancement of open education globally.

Saylor Academy is a nonprofit initiative working since 2008 to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn. We offer nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels, each of which is available right now -- at your pace, on your schedule, and free of cost.

Offer a comprehensive collection of free online courses from the world's top universities and online learning tools on different subjects. Users can create their own playlist for different online learning videos.

TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. Everything we do supports learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons to helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, to celebrating innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 250,000 teachers.

YouTube.com/learning is a destination designed to offer teens, parents, and adults quality learning content. Here you will find playlists that spark your curiosity and content ranging in subjects from physics to filmmaking. So, whether you're studying for a test, want to learn a new skill, or are just curious about the world around you, YouTube.com/Learning has something for you.

A common search service to multiple Creative Commons License supported sites. Instructors are required to verify the work is actually under a CC license properly.

Look for open access versions, such as images that are licensed as CC BY or CC BY-NC.

Freeimages was launched in February 2001 as an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work.

Freeicons is a platform for designers and developers for a wide variety of high-quality icons of different styles, sizes with SVG, PNG, AI, EPS and PSD formats that could be used in all their personal and commercial projects. We're a successful team of designers and we provide products and services for free to those who can’t afford to pay with money.

The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) encourages the adoption of open source and open access mathematics textbooks. This list has been judged by the AIM Editorial board to be suitable for use in traditional university courses.

An open-access platform for anyone who wants to understand the economics of innovation, inequality, environmental sustainability, and more

Cornell Open is a global open access portal for both new and classic out-of-print titles in the fields of anthropology, classics, political science, literary criticism and theory, German studies, and Slavic studies.

There are more than 1,200 academic books from different publishers. The ebooks under this directory must be "available under an Open Access license (such as a Creative Commons license)" and "subjected to independent and external peer review prior to publication."

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Providing freely available, accessible dynamic academic content.

Text and images, freely available

Individual accounts enable independent researchers to access free JSTOR articles. Read up to six articles every 30 days online for free and save your citations to Workspace.

Campus Manitoba launched the Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative in 2015. The goal of the initiative is to make higher education more accessible by reducing students costs through the use of openly licensed textbooks in Manitoba.

Most books published by the National Academies Press can be downloaded for free in PDF format.

We publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print. Seriously. We've also developed low-cost, research-based courseware that gives students the tools they need to complete their course the first time around, and a new online math homework system with step-level feedback.

Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.

AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use.

In OER Commons, you can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons' growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER.

The Open Education Conference is the world’s premier venue for sharing and learning about state-of-the-art research, practice, and advocacy in open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open education.