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"Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others."
Title | Short description | Content | Language | SDGs | |
ABED Referatório | ABED, a non-profit Brazilian association, fosters open and flexible education. It has a library with free and open resources. | textbooks, photos, presentations, multimedia, projects | Portuguese, English | ||
ACU-OER | The ACU Project aims to expand opportunities for higher education. It operates LMS and OER platforms for ASEAN countries, providing content for instructors and learners. | courseware | English, Korean, Burmese, Khmer, Bahasa Indonesia | ||
ALL DIGITAL ACADEMY | The ALL DIGITAL Academy (ADA) offers upskilling training activities on emerging digital technologies for adult educators and trainers. The project aims to strengthen capacity building and connect learning centers for ongoing digital transformation. | courseware | English | ||
Athabasca University Open Courseware | The Open Courseware site offers online courses that are open for anyone. Athabasca University is a recognized online and distance learning university in Canada. | courseware | English, Spanish | ||
atingi | atingi is a digital learning experience focused on providing locally relevant learning opportunities that address critical employment and educational skill gaps in emerging markets. | courseware | German, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic | ||
B.C. Open Collection by Bccampus | The B.C. Open Collection is a curated selection of OER that can be accessed by educators to use in the classroom, in an institutional learning management system, or on other teaching and learning platforms. | courseware; textbook | English | ||
BNEUF Ressources numériques | The “Initiative for Digital Development in the French-speaking University Space” (Bibliothèque Numérique De L'espace Universitaire Francophone) provides digital resources. Its library primarily includes content in French, including a section on Digital Resources and an Atlas of expertise (experts database). | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, photos, presentations, multimedia, projects | French | ||
CC Search | Search openly licensed (creative commons) content across different platforms offering multimedia content such as video, audio and images (e.g. YouTube, Wikimedia Commons, etc.) | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations, multimedia, photos, animations | English | ||
Ceibal Repositorio de recursos abiertos | The Ceibal OER repository is a platform that hosts OER built by Ceibal's content creators and the educational community. Its mission is not only to serve as a repository but also to be a space for the exchange of resources and pedagogical materials, facilitating their adaptation and interaction among different communities of practice. | textbooks, presentations, multimedia | Spanish | ||
Centro de recursos interculturales | The Intercultural Resources Center (CRI, Peru) aims to manage, generate, and provide information on interculturality, cultural diversity, ethnic-racial discrimination, indigenous peoples, Afro-Peruvian population, public policies, among other topics. Additionally, it is expected to contribute to the academic field to delve deeper into the issues addressed by the Vice Ministry of Interculturality. | textbooks, lecture videos, presentations, multimedia, practices, projects | Spanish, local languages | ||
Continuemos estudiando | The portal incorporates accessible and high-quality content related to the levels, modalities, and areas of the Buenos Aires educational system. It also includes pedagogical productions from other national and/or provincial government areas. | textbooks, lecture videos, presentations, multimedia, photos | Spanish | ||
CREA - Recursos Educativos Abiertos para la enseñanza STEM | CREA (Recursos Educativos Abiertos para la enseñanza STEM) is a hub within the STEM Latin America Network. It offers 1,800+ OER for STEM education. These free materials, including worksheets and interactive games, support diverse and engaging teaching methods across all educational levels. | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations, multimedia, images, practices, projects | Spanish | ||
Digital Green Community Videos | Since 2008, this service has empowered rural farmers by producing 6,000+ videos in 50+ languages. Collaborating with grassroots partners in India and 4 African Countries, they've fostered knowledge-sharing, enhancing resilience, productivity, and nutritional well-being. | lecture videos, courseware | Amharic, Awadhi, Bhili, English, Gondi, Hausa, Hindi, Ho, Kannada, Korku, Maghi, Maithili, Marathi, Mundari, Narsinghpuria, Neemadi, Odia, Oromifa, Sadri, Santhali, Swahili, Telugu, Thethi, Tigirigna, Twi | ||
eCampusOntario | eCampusOntario is a non-profit organization that supports online learning in Ontario colleges, universities, and indigenous institutes. | textbooks, projects | French, English | ||
ECLAC Digital Repository | The repository serves as a platform to capture, store, index, preserve, and distribute the intellectual output of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in digital form. It offers a unified access point to over 46,000 digital assets spanning from ECLAC's first publication in 1948 to the present day. | projects | English, Spanish, Portuguese | ||
EDUCATION 2030 Africa Ressources | A virtual platform that fosters collaboration among education specialists in West and Central Africa. It facilitates resource-sharing and coordination to advance education agendas at national and regional levels | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware | French, English | ||
EduNorth – Learn to Live. Live to Learn | An education blog maintained as a professional database and as an Open Education/Open Learning project. | textbooks, projects | English | ||
EDUSCOL | TVET resources provided by the General Directorate of School Education (Direction générale de l'enseignement scolaire) of the French Ministry of Education and Youth. The national resource networks (RNR) for technological and vocational education aim to offer educational resources developed by teams of teachers and trainers. | textbooks | French | ||
ENCORE+: European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education | Currently, the potential of open educational resources (OER) in Europe in higher education and business is not fully harnessed. The Encore+ project provides research around the use of OER in education and training in Europe in 4 aras: Policies & Practice, Quality, OER Technology, Innovation & business models. | research | English | ||
European Schoolnet Academy | The European Schoolnet Academy provides free online courses for teachers, aiming to scale up professional development opportunities. | courseware | Croatian, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish | ||
Global Skills Academy | UNESCO's Global Skills Academy addresses global disengagement by offering diverse training programs, emphasizing 21st Century skills, and aiming to skill a million learners for inclusive, sustainable economies by 2029. | courseware | English | ||
HPLife | HP LIFE is a free business-skills training program for students, entrepreneurs, and lifelong learners all over the world. | courseware | English, Français, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese Simplified, Bahasa Indonesia | ||
ICVE | A digital teaching platform, managed by a higher education publishing house, strives to enhance vocational education by sharing high-quality digital resources and online services. Open to collaboration, it integrates provincial, school, and enterprise libraries to support resource sharing at various levels, emphasizing vocational education, digital teaching and skills development. | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations, multimedia, projects | Chinese | ||
IDB BIDAcademy | The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. Committed to sustainable and inclusive progress, the Bank focuses on key areas such as health, education, infrastructure, climate action, and diversity. Through collaboration with member countries, the IDB strives for impactful development, offering a knowledge and learning platform with free courses, publications, and tools to empower professionals and students. | textbooks, courseware, presentations, practices, projects | English, Spanish, Portuguese | ||
IDC-VET Project OER | The overall aim of the project is to develop a series of resources for professional development for teachers and trainers in VET for planning and delivering professional development for effective digital, open and innovative education and pedagogies. | courseware | English | ||
ILO/Cinterfor Resources for training in the digitization of organizations | The platform provides third-party users with access to updated information from member institutions, emphasizing key aspects of vocational training. It features knowledge banks encompassing publications, teaching resources, good practices, competency and profile standards, as well as virtual learning and practice communities. | textbooks, multimedia, projects | English, Spanish | ||
INET Biblioteca | The National Institute of Technological Education (INET) under the Ministry of Education of Argentina coordinates policies for Technical and Vocational Education. Its library aids educators with resources to enhance technical-professional education, fostering integration of scientific knowledge in teaching and learning. | textbooks | Spanish | ||
INTEF Recursos educativos | This space gives access to educational resources projects, as well as tools developed and promoted by INTEF (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado, Spain). | practices, projects, lecture videos | Spanish | ||
Ivypanda textbook collection | This blog entry provides access to over 1,000 open textbooks and learning resources from various sources for all subjects at high school and college level. | textbooks | English | ||
Khan Academy | Khan Academy provides personalized learning with practice exercises and videos for subjects like math, science, history, and test prep, fostering skill mastery for limitless learning. | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations, multimedia | American Sign Language, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and many more | ||
KlasCement Educational resources | The Educational Resources Network KlasCement offers a digital network for users and suppliers to share educational resources. KlasCement makes the validated resources (open or not) available according to international standards. | textbooks, courseware, lecture videos, presentations, multimedia, projects | Dutch | ||
Korea Open Courseware | The Korea Open Courseware (KOCW) is the largest platform for open educational resources (OER) in the Republic of Korea. | courseware, lecture videos | Korean | ||
LibreTexts | LibreTexts unites students, faculty, and scholars to create an accessible online platform for open educational resources, aiming to alleviate the burden of high textbook costs. | textbooks, courseware, presentations, multimedia | English, Spanish | ||
Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) | This Meta search engine offers a real-time, simultaneous search across 20+ different sources of open educational materials. | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations, multimedia, photos, animations | English | ||
Media Portal for STEM teaching | On the Media Portal, teachers can find around 3,500 OER for a diverse, exciting STEM classroom experience from primary school to high school. Students are offered interactive educational media in their own student area. There they can find experiments, puzzles, tests, educational games, and explainer videos for learning or to use in presentations. | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations, multimedia, projects, practices | English, German | ||
Merlot | The MERLOT collection is made up of over 100,000 learning resources in 19 different material type categories, including Science and Technology, Social Science, Workforce Development, etc. | courseware, textbooks, presentations, multimedia | English | ||
Biblioteca Digital Mineduc | The Digital Library Mineduc is part of the Center for Perfection, Experimentation, and Pedagogical Research (CPEIP). It is primarily intended to capture, organize, and disseminate information from the Ministry of Education of Chile, ensuring access to the bibliographic heritage of Mineduc. | textbooks | Spanish | ||
COLcommons. Micro-courses for Success | COL’s learning platform offers “21st century skills for teaching, learning and employability” with certification. | courseware | English | ||
MIT BLOSSOMS | BLOSSOMS (Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies) provides a series of freely available interactive math and science video lessons for high school classes. | lecture videos, courseware | Arabic, English, Farsi, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, Urdu | ||
MIT OpenCourseWare | Free and open collection of material from thousands of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. | courseware, textbooks | English | ||
National Science Digital Library | Collection of open resources with a focus on STEM (sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics). | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations | English | ||
NDLA Norwegian Digital Learning Arena | NDLA offers open educational resources at secondary school level in Norway. | textbooks, multimedia, animations | Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmål, Northern Sami, English | ||
NPTEL Courses | India’s National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning offers 900+ science and engineering courses. | courseware, lecture videos | English | ||
OASIS: Openly Available Sources Integrated Search | OASIS is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. | textbooks, courseware, lecture videos, presentations, multimedia | English | ||
OAsis, COL's Open Access Repository | OAsis is the Commonwealth of Learning's online institutional repository for learning resources and publications. It includes a collection of “Course/Learning Materials & Open Educational Resources (OER)” | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware | English | ||
OEI Recursos educativos | The OEI, a major multilateral cooperation organization among Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Iberoamerican countries, spans 20 nations with over 3,000 personnel. Focused on knowledge production, they provide courses, scientific outreach, artistic education experiences, and educational resources in Spanish and Portuguese. | textbooks, courseware, lecture videos, presentations, multimedia | Spanish, Portuguese | ||
OER Africa | Browse OER created by African institutions of higher education. OER Africa supports higher education institutions across Africa in the development and use of OER. | textbooks, courseware | English | ||
OER Commons | Public digital library of OER at a variety of levels and subjects. Allows educators to explore, create, and collaborate with each other to improve curricula by forming groups. The platform offers an authoring tool to help build OER and combine them in the form of lesson plans and courses. | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations, multimedia, photos, animations | English | ||
OER Policy Development Tool | This tool allows institutions to easily generate their own OER policy. | policy | English | ||
OERu Courses | The OERu network of institutions offers free online courses for students worldwide. The OERu partners also provide affordable ways for learners to gain academic credit towards qualifications from recognised institutions. | textbooks, lecture videos, presentations, multimedia, animations, practices, projects | English | ||
Open Educational Resources Collective | The Open Educational Resources Collective is a shared publishing platform for CAUL Member institutions in Australia and New Zealand, facilitating independent and collaborative open textbook publishing. | textbooks | English | ||
Open Learning Initiative (OLI) | Courses to be used as textbook replacements or as supplemental material. | courseware | English | ||
Open Oregon Educational Resources | Textbooks for community college and university students. | textbooks | English | ||
Open SUNY Community Textbooks | Milne Open Textbooks are a catalog of open textbooks (primarily academic) authored and peer-reviewed by State University of New York (SUNY) faculty and staff. | textbooks | English | ||
Open Textbook Library | Freely access, download, edit and distribute textbooks in mostly academic subjects. | textbooks | English | ||
OpenStax CNX - Free and flexible textbooks and resources. | Online library containing textbooks at all levels, from K-12 to higher education. | textbooks | English, Spanish, Polish | ||
PhET Interactive Simulations | PhET offers interactive simulations for Science and Math developed on the basis of education research. The intuitive and game-like environment encourages students to learn through exploration and discovery. | courseware, multimedia, animations | English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and many more | ||
Pressbooks Directory | Pressbooks is an open-source platform for publishing educational content. It partners with institutions of higher education to provide accessible and ethical educational content for students. | textbooks | English, French, Tamil, Spanish, German, Afrikaans, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Chinese, Greek, Turkish, Bulgarian, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Japanese, Romanian, Slovenian, Swahili, Telugu | ||
proEdu Online Repository | ProEdu is a collaboration between a number of Brazilian educational institutions. It serves as a digital repository for Professional and Technological Education Network (EPT) educational content, ensuring accessibility and preserving the intellectual legacy. | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations, multimedia, projects | English, Spanish, Portuguese | ||
Support Program for Vocational Technical Education and Training in the Dominican Republic (ProEtp II) | More than 2,800 digital resources for the different Technical Training Modules of 52 technical bachelor's degrees in the Dominican Republic.These include documents, videos, audios, presentations, and applications. | textbooks, lecture videos, presentations, multimedia, projects | Spanish | ||
Repositorio Aberto Communities and Collections | The Repositório Aberto was designed to store, preserve, disseminate and provide access to the academic and scientific production of the Open University of Portugal. | textbooks | English, Portuguese | ||
Saylor Academy Course Catalog | Saylor Academy offers free, online, and self-paced courses. More than 100 full-length courses at college and professional levels available. | textbooks | English | ||
SEA-VET Learning | The South-East Asian tvet-net platform offers TVET professionals an opportunity to learn new skills and advance their career. | courseware | English | ||
SkillsCommons | Comprehensive collection of workforce training materials created by over 700 community colleges across the United States. College course materials like lecture presentations and syllabus can be found. Content is organized according to US Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes. | textbooks, presentations, courseware | English | ||
SMART Education of Chongqing | The National Smart Education Platform of China is a comprehensive and integrated system designed to provide public education services. It combines entrances from different educational platforms across all levels and consolidates high-quality resources, services, and applications from government, schools, and society. | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations, multimedia, projects, animations | Chinese | ||
Tacoma Community College OER Subject Guides | Refers to open resources listed by subject. | textbooks, courseware | English | ||
TED-Ed | TED-Ed is an education platform with original lessons featuring the words and ideas of educators brought to life by professional animators. The videos are accompanied by quizzes, additional resources and discussions. | lecture videos | English | ||
TESDA Online Program | TESDA Online Program (TOP) is a web-based platform that offers free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for the technical education and skills development of Filipino workers. | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware | English | ||
TESSA – Teacher Education for Sub-Saharan Africa | At the heart of the TESSA network of teachers and teacher educators across Sub-Saharan Africa is a bank of OER linked to the school curriculum, and designed to support teachers and teacher educators in developing active approaches to learning. | textbooks, courseware | Arabic, English, French, Kiswahili | ||
The national ODEL in TVET learning resource catalogue | Online catalogue providing links to more than 5,000 openly accessible learning resources, from “Animal husbandry” to “What is a signal converter”. | textbooks, courseware | English | ||
The Open University, OpenLearn | Produced by The Open University, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. Nearly 1000 free courses across 9 different subject areas are offered. | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations, multimedia | English | ||
The Open University, OpenLearn Create | OpenLearn Create is an open educational platform where individuals and organisations can publish their open content, open courses and resources. It is Moodle based and has tools for collaboration, reuse and remixing. | textbooks, lecture videos, courseware, presentations, multimedia | English | ||
The Orange Grove | Online collection of textbooks and educational materials available to students for free. Topics range from Precalculus to Oceanography to English Composition. | textbooks, courseware | English | ||
TVET Academy | The TVET Academy offers entire courses of TVET related instructions and guides by way of video and pdf files. The amount of available training contents vary depending on country and theme. | lecture videos, courseware, presentations | Spanish, French, English | ||
UNESCO-UNEVOC Learning and Working campaign | The backbone of the Skills Development Package “Learning and Working” is a set of short films, shot in Haiti, displaying traditional skills around wood, metal, cement, etc. These are complemented by a series of documents that support the activities presented in the films. | textbooks, lecture videos | English, French | ||
Uruguay Educa | Uruguay Educa serves as the educational portal for the National Administration of Public Education (ANEP). Its primary goal is to develop and adapt digital resources to support teachers, aiming to enhance their effectiveness and ultimately elevate the overall quality of education. | textbooks, presentations, multimedia, photos, animations, projects | Spanish | ||
VET Toolbox | In the Vet toolbox, five European cooperation agencies - the British Council, Enabel, Expertise France, GIZ, and LuxDev, cooperate to share best practices and lessons learned to support decent work and inclusive growth. | practices, projects | English, French | ||
Virtu-WIL - Simulation Canada | Virtu-WIL is a project led by Colleges and Institutes Canada in collaboration with Simulation Canada that uses virtual simulations to enhance healthcare education. | simulations | English, French | ||
VOCEDplus | research | English | |||
Wikibooks | All simulations are free for Canadian educators and students, and many are accessible globally. | textbooks | Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and many more | ||
Wikiversity | Wikiversity is a collaborative platform for study and research groups, promoting diverse content creation like notes, discussions, and practical info. Emphasizing free and collaborative knowledge, it encourages users to organize studies, share notes, and engage in discussions. | textbooks, courseware | Arabic, German, Korean, Slovenian, Spanish, Finnish, French, Greek, Hindi, English, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Swedish, Czech, Chinese | ||
Wisconsin Online Resource Center | Offers contents ranging from corporate learning solutions to instructional programs, including technical learning materials like: barber/cosmetology, aeronautics and welding. | lecture videos, photos, animations | English | ||
YouTube | While YouTube is not an educational or training platform, it still has an enormous amount of how-to videos and many other videos of educational value. Some of the videos are even published under a Creative Commons license. | lecture videos | English, French, virtually any other language |