Macdonald-Kelce Library: Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Courses and Lectures

Courses and Lectures - All Subjects

Browse these general course and lecture offerings. Make sure courses and lectures are suited for college-aged students (most are). Course guides for K-12 students can be used by UT Education majors to see how they can shape an engaging class.

For materials tailored to your specific major or subject specialty, see the lists below.

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier.

Academic Earth
"Academic Earth was launched on the premise that everyone deserves access to a world-class education." Features a collection of free curated online college courses from the world’s top universities in every subject area.
edX
edX is the online learning destination co-founded by Harvard and MIT that offers courses anyone can take for free or for a small fee if you desire a verified certificate. Find courses on many subjects from multiple universities.
Internet Archive - OER
"The Internet Archive’s library of Open Educational Resources and university lectures contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China."
Khan Academy
"A nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere." Offers courses by subject and grade level.
Lumen Learning
Lumen offers customizable course materials in most subjects to aid faculty and students in their work.
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." Search by "Materials" (assignments, syllabi, textbooks, online course, etc.)
OASIS
"Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library."
OER Commons
"OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum."
Open Course Library
"The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts. Some of our materials (also called open educational resources, or OER) are paired with low cost textbooks ($30 or less). Many of the courses can be taught at no cost to students." Funded by the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges (SBCTC).
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OCL courses and materials have undergone testing for accessibility and have been designed using the industry-standard Quality Matters (QM) rubric for assessing the quality of online courses.
Open Culture
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Access free courses, films, audio books, ebooks, MOOCS, and more.
Open Learning Initiative (OLI)
Carnegie Mellon University - OLI provides dozens of college-level courses, and a platform that enables research and experimentation with any aspect of the learning experience.
Saylor Academy
Saylor is a nonprofit initiative that offers free and open online courses to all who want to learn. Find nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels.
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Earn modern, digital certificates of completion; earn tuition-free college credit through our network of partner schools; or even start a low-cost, convenient degree program.
SUNY OER Services
SUNY OER offers adaptable course catalogs, workshops and course textbooks use in the classroom.
TEDEd
"TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world." TEDEd produces a growing library of original animated videos for students, and provides an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons.
University of Oxford Podcasts
"Oxford University provides open content under a Creative Commons licence free for reuse, remixing and redistribution in education worldwide. "
WikiEducator
WikiEducator is a community project working collaboratively with the Free Culture Movement towards incremental development of open educational resources. WikiEducator was conceived as a website for educators to develop free educational content that anyone can use, modify and distribute.

Art, Design, and Communication OERs

Annenberg Learner's Art Through Time: A Global View
"Art Through Time: A Global View examines themes connecting works of art created around the world in different eras. The thirteen-part series explores diverse cultural perspectives on shared human experiences."
Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR)
"AHTR is a peer-populated platform for art history teachers. AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, video introductions to museums, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities. The site promotes discussion and reflection around new ways of teaching and learning in the art history classroom through a peer-populated blog, and fosters a collaborative virtual community for art history instructors at all career stages."
Google Arts & Culture
In addition to exploring images, Google Arts & Culture links out to videos of lectures and essays that are written by curators, art historians, anthropologists, and other educators.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (MET)
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History presents a thematic, chronological, and geographical exploration of global art history through The Met collection. Authored by The Met’s experts, the digital publication is a reference, research, and teaching tool conceived for students and scholars of art history. The Timeline currently comprises more than 1,000 essays, 8,000 works of art, 300 chronologies, and 3,700 keywords. It is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on The Met collection."
MET Curriculum Resources
Comprehensive educational materials and fully illustrated guides for teachers to provide useful background information and ideas for engaging students.
Project Himalayan Art
Teaching resources from the Rubin Museum collection: "Project Himalayan Art is an integrated three-part initiative—digital platform, publication, and traveling exhibition—designed to support the incorporation of Himalayan, Tibetan, and Inner Asian art and cultures into humanities and liberal arts teaching curricula on Asia. This digital platform offers source material on Himalayan art through digital components for the traveling exhibition, 108 in-depth object essays, online collection materials, and digital features such as an interactive map, hundreds of related objects, glossary, and videos of rituals and art-making technologies."
Smarthistory
"Smarthistory is a radical collaborative of more than five hundred art historians, curators, archaeologists, and artists who contribute because they believe that high-quality art history should be available to everyone. Smarthistory takes you inside museums and outside to ancient temples and engages in conversations about how to interpret and understand the images you’re seeing. "

Biology & Environmental Science OERs

OpenLearn - Nature & Environment
"Produced by The Open University, a world leader in open and distance learning, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. "

Business OERs

The Journal of Business Case Studies (JBCS)
"The Journal of Business Case Studies (JBCS) welcomes case studies designed for use in business and economics courses and articles related to the use of case studies in the classroom."
oikos Free Case Archives
"oikos is an international, student-led non-profit organization for sustainability in economics and management." Browse cases by topic and year.
Stanford Business Case Studies
A collection of case studies written and published by faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics OERs

Applied Math & Science Education Repository - Chemistry
"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. "

Health Sciences, Human Performance, and Nursing OERs

Medline Plus
Apart of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Medline Plus offers videos and tools to assist the health professional and anyone curious about anatomy, diseases, and procedures.

Humanities OERs

Covers the disciplines of Literature, Writing, Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Religion.

#dariahTeach
#dariahTeach is a platform for Open Educational Resources (OER) for Digital Arts and Humanities educators and students.Content on #dariahTeach is designed to be asychronously accessed by both lone learners, especially those who do not have access to digital arts and humanities teaching and training, as well as educators who can embed content into their own course offerings.
British Library: Discovering Literature
"Discovering Literature brings to life the social, political and cultural context in which key works of literature were written. Enjoy digitized treasures from our collection, newly commissioned articles, short documentary films and teachers’ notes."
MIT Open Courseware- Women's and Gender Studies
Browse MIT Courses to see class assignments and examples of discussion questions, student projects, presentations, and essays.

Music, Drama, and Dance OERs

Open Music Theory Textbook
"Open Music Theory is an open-source, interactive, online 'text'book for college-level music theory courses. This textbook is meant to support active student engagement with music in the theory classroom."
Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning
ARTSEDGE, a program of the Education Department of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. "From media-rich interactives, innovative performance guides and Podcasts for young audiences to free, standards-based lessons and materials for educators, ARTSEDGE serves teachers, students, and families by supporting teaching and learning in, through and about the arts."

Political Science and International Studies OERs

University of Oxford- Politics and International Relations Podcasts
Video podcasts and presentations on political topics covered at the University of Oxford.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) OERs

Codecademy
Codecademy has helped millions of people worldwide unlock modern technical skills and reach their full potential through code.
MIT OpenCourseWare
"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. "
PhET Interactive Simulations
"Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery."

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