Are you looking for content to use in your teaching or research? Use the resources on our “Find” pages to locate media you can reuse in presentations, papers, course lectures, and more. You can search for open content of all kinds, from within and beyond the University of Michigan community.
What are Open Educational Resources?
Open educational resources (OER) are materials that are free to use for teaching and learning. They are often licensed for reuse and remixing, allowing instructors, students, and self-paced learners to use them in the classroom and create their own educational resources to share with others. OER can encompass many kinds of educational materials, including lecture slides and notes, videos, sample exercises, and much more.
What are Open Data?
Open data are publicly available, free to use, reuse, and distribute. Open data can be used to replicate prior work or advance new findings.
What are Open Publications?
Open publications are scholarly works publicly available to readers without charge. They are often licensed for reuse, and can be made publicly available through a variety of methods, including funding agency mandates, choice of publication venue, and by authors self-archiving their work in institutional or disciplinary repositories.
Find Open Content You Can Use
As you create learning objects, papers, presentations, and more you’ll likely need multimedia content to supplement, illustrate, and enrich your work.