Where can I find materials that can be used freely?
Pictures and videos
- creativecommons.org More than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset
- iRightsinfo: free: Ten places to go for images on the web
- Pixabay: Pixabay photos no longer CC0 irights.info-Artikel
- FlickR: Photo community with several billion photos. In the search settings, you can filter by CC licences, and in the image information you will also find the link to the relevant licence.
- https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search
- Smithsonian: The US Smithsonian Institute puts images and 3D models of its exhibits as well as research data online, much of it under a free licence
Music
- Linkssammlung auf dem Medienpädagogik Praxis-Blog: Numerous repositories with freely usable music and sounds
German portals and search engines
- http://www.bildungsserver.de/elixier/
- GERMAN: partly CC-licensed (findable via advanced search), quality-checked materials, especially for schools
- https://www.lehrer-online.de
- GERMAN: partly CC-licensed teaching material (worksheets and complete teaching units)
- https://www.zum.de/portal/
- GERMAN: Mostly CC-licensed teaching materials for schools
- https://www.edutags.de
- GERMAN: Social bookmarking system for teachers (manage, rate, comment and search OER pages/materials)
- https://edulabs.de/oer
- GERMAN: free teaching ideas and materials for school
- https://imoox.at/mooc/
- GERMAN: free courses on various topics (various licences)
International OER Portals & Search Engines
- https://phet.colorado.edu/
- ENGLISH: interactive simulations for science and mathematics
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- ENGLISH: Media search
Attention: Text under CC BY-SA 3.0, images differently licensed
- ENGLISH: Media search
- http://edeos.org/downloads-erklaervideos-unterrichtsmaterialien
- GERMAN/ENGLISH: Explainer videos, scripts and teaching materials (CC BY-SA)
- https://www.oercommons.org/
- ENGLISH: various free materials on different topics and educational levels
- https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
- ENGLISH: different free materials on different topics and educational levels
- http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
- ENGLISH: free materials (courses, interactive materials, videos, texts, ...) of the Open University
- https://openstax.org/
- ENGLISH: complete textbooks for mathematics, natural, human and social sciences
- http://lreforschools.eun.org/
- DIFFERENT LANGUAGES: different, mostly CC-licensed materials.
- https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
- ENGLISH: MIT courses on various topics (mostly CC BY-NC-SA)
- https://www.khanacademy.org/
- ENGLISH: Courses on various topics (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- https://www.europeana.eu/portal/de
- ENGLISH: Online collection of art, culture and science with various materials (various licences).
- https://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
- ENGLISH: Wiki for various forms of educational materials (CC BY-SA as standard)