Get started with OER

Search

• Google Advanced Search
  The Advance Search uses the power of Google to help narrow down results based on “Usage rights”. This allows you to scan multiple repositories for open content.
• Wikimedia Commons
  Multimedia repository with free-use images, sound, and video files.
• Openverse
  An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use.

Additional Resources:

• LibGuide: Search Strategy
• LibGuide: Dig Deeper

Create

• Creative Commons 
  Apply a Creative Commons (CC) license to any work you create to choose how your work can be shared. You can have clear conditions for attribution and reuse. 
• ISU Pressbooks 
  Pressbooks is an open-source web platform for creating and publishing digital books.
  

Additional Resources

• About the licenses
• Marking your work with a CC License
• LibGuide: Creating & Adapting OER

Share

• OER Commons
  Digital library with network hubs of Open Educational Resources (OER) for educators to store and share content. Idaho Teaching & Learning Community (ITLC) is a network hub that promotes Idaho education by creating and sharing OER content through an interactive platform, fostering student-centered learning.

Find Help

• Meet with a librarian
  Oboler Library's Research Services can help you with your information needs.
• Library OER Info Request and Repositories
  Work with the library to find and evaluate OER.
• Instructional Design Consultation 
  Work with the ITRC to help incorporate OER into your course.