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Open Educational Resources

A "getting started" guide overviewing open, editable, and lower-cost textbooks and open teaching & learning resources for faculty, students, and librarians.

Open Videos

The following links are to repositories of open images and multimedia.

TED Ideas worth spreading
Inspiring talks. Users may freely view and download as a public service, not licensed.

DPLA Digital Public Library of America
Resources of libraries, archives, and museums freely available. Exhibitions, maps, timeline, bookshelf, apps

HippoCampus.org
A project of the Monterey Institute of Technology and Education. Middle school to college. High quality media resources, Math, Sciences, Social Sciences, English

Library of Congress
Primary resources. Art, performing arts, sound recordings, film and video, maps, manuscripts, .

Open Culture
A blog formatted repository seeks to bring together free media resources on culture and education - movies, audio books, ebooks. Also courses, MOOCs, textbook, language resources, and news. Freely available/open access.

Internet Archive : Moving Image Archive

Vimeo
Hosts millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos. Look for a wide variety of content.

Wikimedia Commons
Media repository of educational media in the public domain or Creative Commons license. Images, sounds, and videos

YouTube
Millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos. After the initial subject search, use Filters to limit to CC licenses.

Open Music and Sounds

Internet Archive - Audio
This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download

Free Music Archive (FMA)
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.

ccMixter
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

Free Sound
An archive of free sounds -- not just music, but also general sounds.