Faculty Resources

These are Google Docs made by PCC librarians in response to requests for help from instructors. They vary in depth. None are exhaustive. Contact us for more help or to request a new document for your class or subject.

These are OER guides by subject/class created for instructors building open courses. Excellent resource.

"MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity."

The WA Open Course Library project offers 81 of Washington's most enrolled courses. There are a lot of great readings in these course files. Great community college content

Part of Utah State University's Digital Commons

From Open University: All of the learning materials presented on this site are CC licensed, but don't confuse "Learning Spaces" with the full Open University- their licensing/copyrights are different.

Search for free, online, college courses.

Saylor offers full courses online. It can be really helpful to use the reading lists from Saylor to find and organize your courses.

Lane Community College Library has archived the CLIP information literacy tutorials

A community of people who seek to promote the use of media in teaching; the materials posted here are mostly presented using Fair Use guidelines

HippoCampus, a project of the Monterey Institute of Technology and Education (MITE), is full of high-quality resources in a variety of subjects. It is aimed at high school and college level users.

Songs by musicians who want to share their music.

Hundreds of short educational videos covering many subjects; especially strong collections in science and math.

Interactive tools from the University of Colorado at Boulder are mostly CC licensed

Inspiring thinkers on a range of subjects present big ideas and lectures on a regular basis- completely CC licensed.

A social network of video producers; agreat place to look for a wide variety of content- some is completely open for redistribution, some is open access

Wonderful content from the NSF

The thinkers behind Wikipedia bring you images, video and music all openly licensed or in the public domain.

Open access scientific research articles.

The most comprehensive collection of open access journals in a variety of disciplines; unfortunately, you can search by journal subject, but not by article subject

A curated collection of open textbooks, many reviewed by British Columbia faculty

Some books presented in this mass conglomeration of scanned books are fully available, most are excerpted

Rice Connexions is providing peer reviewed, quality open textbooks. There are some amazing textbooks available here, but some are still in production.

University of Minnesota collection of open textbooks with full reviews

Find the full text of classics and public domain works from the first massive ebook creating organization in existence. Nothing fancy here, just files with the full text.

A project of the Wikimedia Foundation, this collection of group written textbooks in a variety of sources follows rules similar to Wikipedia

Materials in the Applied Math and Science Educational Repository are free for use and adaptation. Most resources are at the high school and community college levels.

Open source materials for K-12

Learning objects and lessons from the National Endowment for the Humanities

One of the biggest and more famous places to find and share teaching resources

Seeks to collect and distribute a variety of OER at a variety of levels and subjects

This blog formatted repository seeks to bring together free resources on culture and education. The list of movies here is impressive.

A library of images and audio under Creative Commons license or in the public domain.

Millions of open access theses and dissertations