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Finding Assignments, Activities, and Other Learning Objects

There are many sites that collect all kinds of OER, including short pieces like single readings, lesson plans, activities, quizzes and assessments, and more. You can search by discipline or a more specific topic:

Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative Commons A resource for Maryland faculty to find easy-to-adopt, high-quality OER to replace expensive textbooks in college courses.
OER Commons Large repository of many open educational resources, provided by Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). Use filters for educational level and type of material.
Open Textbook Library Part of the Open Education Network. This site includes a multitude of diverse materials within the given subjects. Format is easy to read and navigate.
Teaching Commons Compiles OER from colleges and universities worldwide

Many states maintain repositories of OER materials. Maryland's is the Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative, mentioned above, but other states have similar projects. Sometimes you'll see the same resources and materials across multiple repositories; other times, you'll find something unique. Here are a few of these statewide repositories from around the country:

Alabama OER Commons The Alabama OER Commons is a place for Alabama educators, students, and the general public to find and share free educational resources. We aim to bring together in one location some of the most useful OER textbooks and other materials available, and also to provide a central location for OER that are “made in Alabama” - original creations, as well as OER that have been adapted or remixed to fit the needs of Alabama students and residents.
California: MERLOT's Open Textbook Initiative MERLOT, which comes out of the California State University System, is a high-quality clearinghouse for digital learning resources. They now provide access to over 900 open source textbooks.
Colorado: OERColorado Colorado’s microsite for Open Educational Resources, where PK-12 educators are empowered to use openly licensed digital resources.
Connecticut: Connecticut Open Educational Resources Grant Program A program sponsored by the Connecticut Open Educational Resources Coordinating Council to strategically support Connecticut higher education institutions' efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students through the incorporation of open educational resources (OER).
Connecticut: GoOpen Connecticut Welcome to GoOpen CT, the State of Connecticut’s public digital library of open educational resources by and for teachers, professors, students, and education leaders.
Georgia: GALILEO Open Learning Materials Similar to MERLOT, GALILEO is an OER project that arose from a group of statewide universities and colleges in Georgia. The collection can be searched or browsed by subject, author, or course.
Hawaii: University of Hawai'i OER Project The University of Hawaiʻi System aims to empower instructors to take control of their curriculum through the adoption and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER), advancing a more dynamic and integrated learning experience for students while also removing costly barriers to education. The UH System is committed to being a leading Indigenous-serving institution and proudly delivers a multicultural global experience in a Native Hawaiian place of learning.
Idaho Teaching & Learning Community The Idaho Teaching & Learning Community (ITLC) was initiated by the Idaho State Department of Education (SDE) to provide Idaho education stakeholders an interactive platform to collaborate, curate, and create quality Open Educational Resources (OER) to support student-centered learning.
Illinois: Open Illinois Open Illinois facilitates the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and supports training, advocacy, and coordination of cooperative effort for the benefit of members of Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and other Illinois stakeholders. This centralized repository provides materials helpful to academic and research institutions in developing OER and advocating for adoption of OER on their campuses to reduce students costs.
Louisiana: Affordable Learning LOUISiana The Affordable Learning LOUISiana OER repository is a digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create and collaborate with educators around the state and the world to improve curriculum.
Massachusetts: Open Massachusetts A platform for sharing open educational resources created and adopted by faculty from Massachusetts Public Higher Education Institutions. Join us here as we collaborate, curate, and create high quality open educational resources that serve the needs of students of Massachusetts Institutions of Public Higher Education.
Michigan: #GoOpen Michigan Explore our library of open education resources and join a network of Michigan educators who are dedicated to using high quality, openly-licensed educational resources.
Minnesota OER Commons Minnesota OER Commons seeks to support educators, curriculum experts, and administrators across K-12 and higher education in creating affordable, high quality content solutions using Open Educational Resources (OER). Minnesota OER Commons is part of a statewide collaborative called Minnesota Learning Commons (MnLC), which offers consulting, training, and a suite of tools for the use of OER in all types of learning and classrooms.
Missouri OER Commons Missouri's statewide platform for open educational resources (OER). Here, educators can collaborate to discover, create, and share openly licensed content.
Nebraska OER Nebraska's statewide platform for open educational resources (OER) where educators collaborate to discover, create and share openly licensed content
New Hampshire Open Education Consortium Today, the New Hampshire Open Education Consortium (NH Open) focuses on adopting and developing open textbooks to: drive down the real cost of college; improve learning outcomes, throughput and completion rates, and student engagement; improve higher education’s capacity to prepare graduates for the needs of a changing workforce; and develop 21st-century pedagogical approaches to serve our students and our state.
New Jersey: OpenNJ The Open NJ repository allows faculty and students to find Open Educational Resources (OER) created and adopted at participating New Jersey institutions along with materials created through the Open Textbook Collaborative grant. By sharing this common space, OpenNJ enables faculty to share OER, expand their knowledge of adopted OER, and identify OER for their potential adoption. Approved members of the academic community can also submit OER online through the integrated OpenPublishing tool. (learn more )
North Carolina: Open Education North Carolina Open Education North Carolina is an initiative that aims to reduce the cost of higher education for North Carolina students by providing free, open e-textbooks for 30 of the most frequently-taught courses across North Carolina’s 2 and 4-year colleges and universities. Learn more about the program at nclive.org/oenc
Ohio Open Ed Collaborative Create, adopt, and utilize open materials for Ohio's higher education courses.
Oregon: Open Oregon Educational Resources This page lists course materials that Oregon community college and university instructors are using to reduce textbook costs in their courses.
Tennessee Open Education Hub The Tennessee Open Education Hub brings together the intellectual and creative power of faculty throughout the state, providing a place to build and share resources with the common goal of improving student learning outcomes.
Texas: OERTX Repository Discover collections of resources. Contribute OER. Collaborate with educators.
Vermont: #VTOpen VT educators share both regionally and across the State with resources that are created by fellow Vermonters.
Virginia: #GoOpenVA Welcome to #GoOpenVA where teachers are empowered to support personalized learning for all their students by creating, using and sharing openly-licensed digital resources. By Virginia Educators, For Virginia Educators.
Washington OER Hub Washington's platform for sharing K-12 open educational resources - providing equitable access to standards-aligned, high-quality instructional materials.
Wisconsin: WISELearnResources Welcome to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's dynamic digital library and network. Explore our resources and join Wisconsin educators dedicated to curriculum, instruction, professional learning, and collaboration.
Wyoming: Open Range Wyoming Wyoming is dedicated to creating and sharing high-quality units, lessons, and resources that have been aligned to current Wyoming State Content Standards. We want to ensure that all resources shared with our educators are of superior quality, are easy to download and customize for their students, and serve as a tool to increase student engagement and achievement.

Using OER Search Engines and Other Tools

There are also search engines and tools dedicated to finding OER, which can be faster than searching through multiple repositories or websites:

The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) Real-time federated search for OER content across 21 resources, sponsored by the George Mason University Libraries.
OASIS Ssearches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records. Developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
Open Washington search engine Search tool hosted along with a list of recommended resources.
California State University ISBN search tool Find free online course materials related to a commercially-published book, such as a textbook you're already using in your course