Module Reading Assignment (10 mins)
Free Content Resources: Where to Get it
It is usually easier to adapt or use existing materials than it is to design your own materials from scratch. Here are some repositories that may provide media or course materials that you can use in your course. These materials may be free for noncommercial use, but some require that you attribute the original source. Always verify the use requirements for anything you find online. Please bookmark this page so that you can return to it later.
Video
- Crash Course Videos are made by the author John Green, his brother Hank, and other subject matter experts. All videos in the series are free to use and licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
- The Global Oneness Project produces documentary films and interviews that explore ecological, economical, and social systems.
- PBS Video offers a number of its original programs.
- SnagFilms offers hundreds of full-length documentary films for free.
- TED Talks contain videos of “riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.”
- UCTV is a non-commercial channel featuring programming from the University of California
Images
- Pixabay provides high-resolution images free for use without attribution.
- Unsplash.com provides high-resolution images free for use without attribution.
- Flickr Creative Commons lets you find images that Flickr users have chosen to offer under a Creative Commons license.
- Wikimedia Commons offers freely usable images, audio, and videos, attribution required.
- Flat Icon- Mix of free and paid icons, vectors, and images.
- Freepik- Mix of free and paid images.
Course Material
Most of the resources below are licensed under Creative Commons licensing which allows you to share and reuse these materials for noncommercial purposes. However, you are required to attribute the original author.
- Academic Earth offers college-level online courses and videos.
- The Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative offers open online courses.
- Connexions offers free modules that you can incorporate into other materials.
- Khan Academy has online video courses on a number of subjects.
- MIT Open Courseware (OCW) provides free lecture notes, exams, and videos from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) has a searchable collection of free peer-reviewed online instructional materials.
- Noba is an open and free online platform that provides high-quality, flexibly structured psychology textbooks and educational materials.
- Open Educational Resources (OER Commons)
- The Open Courseware Consortium has open online courses from around the world.
- Open Yale Courses provides free access to introductory courses taught by Yale faculty.
- The World Digital Library (WDL) offers, free of charge and in multilingual format, primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.