When you’re looking to do something interesting with your class, the internet is the first place that most of you turn for help. The internet holds the keys to textbooks, web tools, teaching guides, lesson plans, apps, and more. But how do you know what’s free for using vs. free for changing, adapting to your needs, and building upon? That’s a harder question to answer.
The How to Search for Open Educational Resources Infographic makes your path to finding useful, openly licensed educational resources easier. Open Educational Resources (OER) are digital materials that can be used, re-used and repurposed for teaching, learning, research and more, made freely available online through open licenses such as Creative Commons. OER include a varied range of digital assets from course materials, content modules, collections, and journals to digital images, music and video clips.