Guides: Open Educational Resources Guide: Finding OER

OER Resources by Discipline

Catholic University's liaison librarians have included discipline-specific OER resources in many of their subject guides. To access OER resources by discipline, choose a subject from the list below.

Mason OER MetaFinder (MOM)

The Mason OER Metafinder from George Mason University launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.

Finding OER

Beyond Mason OER Metafinder, a list of open educational resources search engines and discovery sites

Academic Earth
Academic Earth " “offers free online video courses and academic lectures from the world's top universities. It is considered a search engine for full-text scholarly information, with videoc ourses covering around 50 primary subject disciplines.”
AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository)
“A portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use.”
Coerll - Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning
Coerll "provides free teaching materials and resources for world languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and many more.”
MERLOT
“The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.” Created in 1997 by the California State University Center for Distributed Learning.
OASIS
Developed at SUNY Geneseo, OASIS is “a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 97 different sources and contains 385,629 records.”
OER Commons
OER Commons is "a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum."
OER Consortium
A non-profit, global, members-based network of open education institutions and organizations. OEC represents its members and provides advocacy and leadership around advancement of open education globally.
Online Writing Lab: Excelsior College
“An award-winning open education resource offering multimedia support for writing and reading.”
SkillsCommons
Created by the US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program, Skillscommons is “a free and open online library containing learning and program support materials for job-driven workforce development.”
Teaching Commons
“Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.”
Writing Commons
The Writing Commons aims “to create an encyclopedia that synthesizes and extends what is known about the study of writing in Writing Studies and beyond.”