LibGuides: Military and Defence Studies: Open educational resources

What are open educational resources?

UNESCO defines open educational resources (OERs) as "... teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an intellectual property license that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution."

Open Education Resource Foundation
Provides leadership, international networking and support for educators and educational institutions to achieve their objectives through Open Education.

Finding open educational resources

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
A database of open online teaching and learning resources, including discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and content builder webpages.
OER Commons Advanced Search
A public digital library of open educational resources.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)
Search or browse a collection of OER repositories.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS)
A search tool designed to make the discovery of open educational content easier.
Google Advanced Search
Allows you to limit content published under an open license. Narrow your search by selecting one of the "free to use" options from the usage rights filter.
HumBox
UK Humanities repository for storing, managing and publishing humanities teaching resources.
Xerte public e-learning repository (XPERT)
Use XPERT to search a growing database of open learning resources suitable for students at all levels of study in a wide range of subjects.
Wikimedia Commons
A media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content.
OpenLearn
Free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world.