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What are Open Educational Resources?  See what the following resources have to say about it:

1. OERCommons (You can also scroll up a little bit to see part of this one.)
2. Wikipedia

History

1. Intellectual Property
2. Software as a grey area
3. Creative Content
4. The Open Movement

Content Resources

Multimedia

• Europeana
• Internet Archive
• Wikimedia

Audio

• American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
• Association for Cultural Equity
• ccMixter
• ccMixter Music Discovery
• Freesound
• Free Music Archive (Tracks to Sync)
• Gardner Museum (jump to Music)
• Jamendo
• LibriVox
• Magnatune
• SoundCloud
• Sound Transit

Video

• NASA Langely Research Center Media Repository
• National Park Service: B-Roll Video Archive
• Nevada Site Office
• Next Vista
• The Open Video Project
• Public Domain Torrents
• Public.Resource.org
• Spinxpress
• Vimeo (jump to Creative Commons)
• YouTube (jump to Creative Commons or EDU)

Graphics

• Google Images (Gear Icon>Advanced Settings>Usage Rights)
• Flickr
• NASA Langely Research Center Media Repository
• National Park Service: Digital Image Archive
• Open Clip Art Library
• Open Font Library
• Pixabay

Text

• Feedbooks
• Project Gutenberg
• Scribd

Textbooks

• CK-12 Foundation
• Curriki (jump to textbooks)
• Flat World Knowledge

CourseWare

• Connexions
• Curriki
• Khan Academy
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• OERCommons
• Open University LearningSpace
• Peer2Peer University
• WikiEducator

Advocates and Agents of Open

• Creative Commons (jump to Education)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education

The Benefits of Open Source

• Equity
• No vendor lock-in
• Customizable
• Fee structure

Software

• Audacity
• Calibre
• GNU Image Manipulation Program
• InkScape
• LibreOffice
• Scribus
• VLC Media Player

Video Editing

• Avidemux
• Blender
• OpenShot

Operating Systems

• Ubuntu (Edubuntu)
• ChromiumOS
• SugarOS
• Linux Mint
• PinguyOS