OER Repositories
In these repositories, you can find OER created by others and ready for your use or adaptation, including textbooks, lesson plans, syllabi, videos, images, and more. Browse these repositories by subject or search for materials using relevant keywords.
| Repository |
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Cons |
| OER Commons |
- One of the largest OER repositories
- Covers multiple disciplines
- Allows for sorting by education level, reuse options, and by standard
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- Rating system is a bit unclear
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| OERTX |
- New OER repository from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
- Covers multiple disciplines
- Allows for sorting by education level, reuse options, and by standard
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- Covers most of the same resources as OER Commons since the platform is shared
- Rating system is a bit unclear
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| OpenStax |
- High quality textbooks for introductory level college courses
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- Little content for upper level courses
- Not much coverage in the humanities
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| Open Textbook Library |
- Large collection of textbooks with published peer reviews by professors
- Includes some upper level/graduate textbooks
- Easy to use interface
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- As the name suggests, the content is limited to textbooks
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| MERLOT II |
- Lots of filtering and limiting options when searching
- Wide range of disciplines represented
- Wide variety of material types
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- Search interface is a bit clunky
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| OASIS |
- Searches content from over 60 different sources, you can sort by license type and type of resource.
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- Can't sort by education level
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| OER Metafinder |
- Simultaneously searches multiple repositories, could give you good ideas of other repositories to look in
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- Search interface is difficult to use
- Search results sometimes take you to the main page of different repository and then you have to redo your search
- Not easy to determine licenses for items
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