An overview of search engines for open resources and several useful toolkits, websites and sources of background information on OER and open education.
Last updated: 9 October 2024
Search engines for open data, open resources and MOOCs
| CC Search | Search engine for images, video and audio with a Creative Commons license |
| Class Central | The ultimate search engine for MOOCs and loads of information |
| Data Set Search Google | Google search engine for sets of open data |
| Every Stock Photo | Search engine for free photos |
| Mason OER Metafinder | Real-time federated search for OER content |
| OASIS | Search engine that can access 52 different OER websites that contain more than 150,000 resources |
| Solvonauts | Search engine for several types of open resources |
Miscellaneous sources
| Website | Description |
|---|---|
| Guidelines on the Development of Open Educational Resources Policies | 7 Phase process guiding in step-by-step development of an OER policy |
| OER Capability Toolkit | This toolkit aims to provide educators a fundamental understanding in the use and creation of OER. With many sources and including a nice wizard to support redesigning your course to include Open Pedagogy practices |
| Open attribution builder | A tool to help you build a proper attribution when publishing with a Creative Commons license |
| Publiceren van OER Publishing OER | A roadmap of activities that must be carried out in order to publish OER. NL and EN version. The Dutch version is targeted to Fontys School of ICT, but can easily be localized for your own context. |
| Quality model OER | A study into the quality of OER. Contains a model that can be used to determine the quality of OER. Only NL version. |
| OER Africa toolkits | Information categorized by legal, development of courses and materials and policy. |
| The OER Starter Kit | This starter kit has been created by Abbey Elder (Iowa State University) to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. |
| A Basic Guide to OER | A publication of the Commonwealth of Learning, including a FAQ on OER. |
| SURF OER support pages | SURF portal for all kinds of support for OER |
| OER Mythbusting! | Arguments against OER are refuted here. |
| Open Content Licensing | A three-step guide for open content licensing |
| Open Research Funders Group | Many tools for developing an institutional Open Policy |
| Remove background | Tool to remove background from photo with a person |
| TinEye | Reverse Image Search. Search by image and find where that image appears online. |
| Open Pedagogy | Information about and examples of practices of open pedagogy |
| Open Pedagogy Notebook | A resource for educators interested in learning more about Open Pedagogy. Includes many examples. |
| Why Open Research? | Nice, easy accessible, website for those who wants to know more about: "Why open research?", by Erin and John McKiernan |