Open Educational Resources(OER): OER Search Engines

directs your search to content from a host of top OER repositories. If you know a site that is not listed, feel free to add it!

FREE (abbreviation for Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) allows educators, students, administrators to easily find digital teaching and learning resources created and maintained by the Federal Government and public and private organizations. It’s a search engine because it won’t store or mandate particular curricula or lesson plans, it only contains links to learning resources created by many organizations and initiatives. You can browse either by subject or by standard.

a meta-search engine incorporating many different OER repositories (uses Google Custom Search)

is a Creative Commons search engine devoted to open-license educational resources on the web. Use the site just as you would a typical search engine!

This site will help you find openly licensed media elements to use within your courses.

is a knowledge hub that eases a public and multilingual catalog of Open Educational Resources (OER) which aims to support the education community to find those resources and materials that meet their needs for teaching and learning through a specialized and collaborative search system and social tools.It contains selected educational resources, described and evaluated by an academic community.Resources categorized by area of knowledge, educational level and language, among others.Provides a friendly search engine through intuitive filters.Allows the creation of communities around educational resources.

University Learning = OCW+OER = Free custom search engine - a meta-search engine incorporating many different OER repositories (uses Google Custom Search)

Learners and educators can use XPERT to search a growing database of open learning resources suitable for students at all levels of study in a wide range of different subjects.