Where to find Open Educational Resources:

Below is a list and some tips for finding openly licensed authentic resources (e.g., culturally relevant photographs and target language music), as well as openly licensed teacher-authored pedagogical resources (e.g., lessons, syllabi, and curricula).

Don't forget to also look at COERLL's own materials, if you haven't already!

Keep in mind:

If you are serious about making as much of your curriculum open as possible, this OER development worksheet developed by Lisa Young at Scottsdale Community College can help you to map out what you need. (The worksheet is licensed under a CC BY license.)
Keep an open mind... even if you don't find the specific thing you are looking for, you may stumble upon a resource and find a way to build a lesson around it (rather than building a lesson and then finding the resource to plug in).
Some of the below sites have a combination of copyright and Creative Commons materials, so be sure to pay attention to the licenses.

OER Repositories

These repositories contain educator-authored resources such as lesson plans, curricula, and syllabi.

Learn more about other repositories, and the availability of foreign language materials, in this COERLL blog post.

Media Repositories

These repositories contain openly licensed images, audio, video, and text that you can use as authentic resources. Don't forget to try searching in both English and your target language to get a variety of results!

Images

Audio

Jimendo for music
Forvo for crowdsourced pronunciations of words in many languages
iTunes U for copyrighted podcasts and educational recordings

Video

YouTube (find Creative Commons videos by searching, clicking "filter" at the top, and choosing Creative Commons from the "Features" column)
- In our blog, Christian Hilchey shares some tips for finding interesting YouTube videos (e.g., by using the search term "vlog")
In this course, the guide ▹▹▹ Shooting Video - Technical Hints & Tips may help if you are shooting your own video

Text

Wikipedia (all content is CC BY-SA licensed)
Project Gutenburg for older public domain texts

Multimedia

Internet Archive

Search platforms

These platforms allow you to search multiple locations across the internet.

Creative Commons Search (see the ▹▹▹ Getting Started page for tips on how to use this)
Google allows you to filter by license, and provides many tools for narrowing down your search further
- Learn more about searching for OER in COERLL's Fall 2016 newsletter

Vetting what you find

The UT Austin OER LibGuide has useful guidelines for evaluating the OER you find, based on the content, accessibility, licensing, quality, and format, and recommends rubrics from Achieve.org and RCampus.

Go to the next page to learn how to attribute the open content you use.