Open Educational Resources (OER)

Over 550,000 free (do-whatever-you-want) high-resolution photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

Morguefile is a free photo archive “for creatives, by creatives.” Founded by Michael Connors in 1996, the site was created to serve as a free image exchange for creative professionals and teachers to use in their work.

Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals: to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them and enable new ways of organizing photos and video.

Creative Commons’ “CC Search” project will develop and release an open online search and re-use tool that will allow high-quality content from the commons to surface in a more seamless and accessible way.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.

Open Education North Carolina is an initiative that aims to reduce the cost of higher education for North Carolina students by providing free, open e-textbooks for 30 of the most frequently-taught courses across North Carolina’s colleges and universities.

OpenStax CNX is a dynamic non-profit digital ecosystem serving millions of users per month in the delivery of educational content to improve learning outcomes. There are tens of thousands of learning objects, called pages, that are organized into thousands of textbook-style books in a host of disciplines, all easily accessible online and downloadable to almost any device, anywhere, anytime.

The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.