While there are many search platforms available and dedicated solely to discovering and locating OER in some way or another, OER materials are becoming increasingly visible in mainstream search repositories and engines like Google, YouTube, and Flickr. The advanced search features of these platforms include search via license or usage rights filters. Give this a try next time you’re browsing these sites!
—adapted from “Open Educational Resources: Where can I find OER?”
Discovering and locating OER
Open Textbooks
Open Courses
- Lumen LearningSUNY faculty and students have no-cost access to Lumen’s courseware, technology, and OER support services. For more information about this OER discovery and usage option, contact SUNY OER Services at oer@suny.edu.
Open Course Modules
- Canvas CommonsUse the Canvas Commons to locate and adopt openly-licensed material for your course. Contact your campus Canvas team for help.
Images and Multimedia
- Creative CommonsFind content you can share, use and remix
- Khan Academy Created by experts, Khan Academy’s library of trusted, standards-aligned practice and lessons covers math K-12 through early college, grammar, science, history, AP®, SAT®, and more. It’s all free for learners and teachers. Students practice at their own pace, first filling in gaps in their understanding and then accelerating their learning. With Khan Academy, teachers can identify gaps in their students’ understanding, tailor instruction, and meet the needs of every student.
Search Repositories
- MERLOTMERLOT 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.
- OER CommonsOER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
Adapting and creating OER
One of the great benefits of OER is that they can be adapted to your needs. From rearranging chapters to adding material within your own area of expertise, these customizations can be extremely helpful for your students. Contact the library if you want help adapting an OER you’ve located.
Additionally, maybe you’ve adapted or created material you’re ready to share. We can guide you through selecting a Creative Commons license, deciding on a format, and choosing how and where to share your materials.
Milne Library Publishing also provides SUNY Geneseo faculty, students, and staff access to the publishing platform, Pressbooks. This online publishing software built on WordPress is perfect for adapting open texts, collaborative student projects, and annotating public domain texts.
To request access, fill out the form linked below, or contact Allison Brown for more information: browna@geneseo.edu.
Getting help at Geneseo
Looking for high quality, innovative learning materials?
Need help with text, media, and other digital assets?
OER can help, providing an array of free and vetted educational material for teaching, learning, and research purposes.
OER are an affordable option from conventional textbooks, and users can add or create such content as
- Content modules
- Course material
- Journal articles
Contact Fraser Hall Library at libraryhelp@geneseo.edu with your OER-related questions.
