Finding Open Educational Resources (OER) for Teaching and Learning

An Australian-based site which distributes videos about social justice and environmental issues in the Asia Pacific. All videos are Creative Commons Attribution licensed.

Contains feature films, shorts, silent films and trailers. Select those with a Creative Commons license for reuse (Tips to search for different license types).

Contains various types of digital moving images, such as fiction and documentary films, advertisements, news footage, television programmes, etc. Select those with a Creative Commons license for reuse (Tips to search for different license types).

Contains thousands of films from the Prelinger Archives! Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Select those with a Creative Commons license for reuse (Tips to search for different license types).

Provides video lessons mostly in mathematics and science topics. Also offers lessons in the humanities and economics. Khan Academy videos are licensed under the MIT license: http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. Most videos are under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Users need to set up a personal login and password.

A comprehensive source of Open Educational Resources for K-12 and college level programmes under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. Includes videos, lesson guides, sound files and online tutorials from around the world.

Provides access to videos from expert speakers on a wide range of topics. TED talks are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Non Derivative license. The TED-Ed portion of TED aims at educators and students. Note that TED-Ed videos on YouTube are available under YouTube policy. For more, refer to TED talk usage policy.

A social platform for sharing videos. Vimeo permits upload of videos licensed with Creative Commons. To limit search results to only show items with Creative Commons licenses, on the main search results page, look for “+ more filters” on the left. Then under “License”, select “CC0” or other desired license.

An online video community that allows users to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube allows users to mark their videos with a Creative Commons Attribution license. To find YouTube videos with such a license, after typing your search query in the search box, click the “Filters” drop-down menu and select “Creative Commons”.