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edit   Repositories of Educational Resources MERLOT - MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. BC Campus SOLR*R - Teaching and learning resources posted by BC public post-secondary educators. Open Educational Resources Archive Internet Archive edit   Open Access Textbooks Below is a selection of open access resources which include textbooks and other educational materials. You may find more resources by searching the Internet using the phrase "open educational resources" or "open access textbooks." Please read the terms of use for each resource and abide by the conditions outlined by the author(s). OER Commons - Provides access to over 24,000 items for all levels of education that are publicly available for all to use and, with the inclusion of Creative Commons licensing, many of these resources can be legally modified or repurposed. College Open Textbooks - The focus is on community college courses and the first two years (lower division) of undergraduate courses. Some textbooks are peer-reviewed. Flat World Knowledge - Subjects include business & economics, humanities, social sciences, pure & applied sciences, etc. InTech - Physical and health sciences books Project Gutenberg - Classics and books in the public domain. Repositories of Teaching and Learning Resources edit   Open Courseware Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - A web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. Open Yale Courses P2PU - Topics include writing for the web, online communication, computer programming, etc. Saylor WaSP Interact Open University's LearnSpace - includes a course on how to create your own open educational resources. edit   Open Access Journals The spirit of open access journals is to make all content freely available. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Editorial board and/or peer reviewed journal articles Open Medicine - Canadian and peer-reviewed

edit   Streaming Videos YouTube Education Khan Academy - Instructional videos HotDocs - Canadian documentaries Brightstorm Academic Earth Annenberg Learner BBC Teachers - Teaching resources from the BBC BBC Video Nation CBC Archives Free Video Lectures MIT Video Moving Image Archive Museum of Broadcast Communications PBS Video TeacherTube TED Talks edit   Multimedia Learning Objects WISC Online - Learning objects and videos. PhET from U of Colorado - Interactive simulations edit   Free Music & Audio International Music Score Project  CCMixter - Music and audio clips to listen to, sample or mash-up. Freesound edit   Creative Commons Licensed Images Creative Commons Search Flickr Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons The Noun Project Pics4Learning US Public Health Image Library - “Images are royalty-free and available for personal, professional and educational use in electronic or print media, with appropriate citation.”