Creator Resources

Other Helpful Resources

We’ve created this page to share resources we believe will be helpful for developer who are working on creating open resources.

Open Press Style Guide

The Open Press Style Guide is only available to developers we work with. Contact us at openpress@tru.ca for the password.

The guide can be found at Open Press Style Guide.

  • Flickr: Largest photo sharing site. Be sure to use advanced search and select for Creative Commons licensed images.
  • Google Advanced Image Search: Filter results by usage rights i.e. “free to use or share”
  • Creative Commons Search: (now OpenVerse) Search a variety of media.
  • TRU Indigenous Stock Image Gallery: OP Project led by Christine Miller. Anyone is welcome to use this resource under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license! 
  • CIRA Stock Image Gallery: Check CIRA Stock Images Terms of Use.
  • CIRA Indigenous Stock Image Gallery: Free-to-use resource created with the purpose of honouring Indigenous entrepreneurship and addressing the Indigenous representation gap in most online stock images. Indigenous peoples are shot on-location at three Indigenous-owned .CA locations: Adaawe, Beandigen Café and Mādahòkì Farm. CIRA also consulted with Pow Wow Pitch. Check CIRA Stock Images Terms of Use.
  • Wikimedia Commons: Freely usable media files (images, audio, video). Check the image summary for details on permitted use.
  • Pexels: Free images available with a CC0 (public domain – available to use freely for any legal purpose)
  • Pixabay: Free high-resolution stock photos with a CC0 (public domain) depicting a wide variety of subjects
  • Unsplash: Free high-resolution stock photos with a CC0 (public domain) depicting a wide variety of subjects.
  • Noun Project: A collection of millions of icons and images available for use under a Creative Commons license, offering a wide range of visual representations for various concepts and ideas – registration required for free account.
  • Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary: Stock photo library that features images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. Aims to provide better representation of members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities—people with careers, relationships, talents, passions, and home lives. All images released under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.
  • UK Human Development Institute: Diverse collection of stock photos that highlight disability representation. All photos are CC0
  • Al Jazeera: Select video is available for free to be downloaded, shared, and remixed
  • BCcampus Open Online Courses: Includes open course materials relevant to B.C. post-secondary course credits, with a focus on those with high enrolment and transferability in the B.C. post-secondary system.
  • Critical Commons: Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts.
  • Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive: Contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
  • Khan Academy: Find videos or short lectures on math, biology, chemistry, physics, humanities, finance and history.
  • TED: TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).
  • videolectures.net: An open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by scholars and scientists at events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science.
  • Vimeo: Vimeo allows content creators to add a creative commons licence to their videos. These videos can be searched for using the advanced search filter.
  • YouTube Education: YouTube allows content creators to add a creative commons licence to their videos.
  • *Inclusive Digital Design Course – from Learning Technology and Innovation (LT&I)
  • TRUSpace: TRU’s institutional open educational resource repository.
  • TRU OpenCourses: TRU’s openly licensed courses that are available via Moodle.
  • BC Open Collection – British Columbia’s highly-esteemed and large collection of OER repositories.   
  • Coursera: An education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
  • edX: Offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from some of the world’s top universities, including MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, and UTx.
  • Khan Academy: Interactive exercises, videos, and assessments in math and sciences, primarily k-12 but useful as review tools for undergrads. Donor supported, not-for-profit.
  • Open Yale: Free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale.
  • MIT OpenCourseWare: Open web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.
  • Open Course Library: Collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs.
  • OER Repositories and Additional Resources   
  • UWSpace – The University of Waterloo’s repository for research produced by faculty, students and staff.  
  • eCampus Ontario – Pressbooks and H5P for educators who want to create and upload OER.  
  • Open Textbook Library  – Well-known OER repository supported by the Open Education Network.   
  • OER Commons  – Resource for building and publishing OER resources.   

Open Repositories

  • HippoCampus: Free academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content — videos, animations, and simulations — on general education subjects from middle-school to college level.
  • Learning Activities @ TRU: Collection of learning activities that can be adapted.
  • Libretexts: LibreTexts provides free access to more than 400 texts across a variety of disciplines, with an early emphasis on chemistry and other STEM disciplines. The libraries are supported by a nonprofit organization founded by UC-Davis Chemistry professor Delmar Larsen.
  • MERLOT – Education resources: The MERLOT system provides access to curated free and open online teaching and learning support materials and content creation tools, used by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
  • National Science Digital Library: Access to teaching and learning materials in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Search by level, resource type, and subject.
  • openNCCC: Collects and shares learning resources (e.g., documents, audio/video clips, simulations, learning modules, and assessments) for North Carolina teachers from elementary school to college. Formerly known as NCLOR: North Carolina Learning Objects Repository
  • Open Professionals Education Network: Find OER: Resource to find openly licensed media elements (i.e, images, video, audio) to use in your courses.
  • OpenStax: OpenStax has published dozens of high-quality, peer reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks for commonly taught introductory college subjects. Many of the OpenStax books have been imported into Pressbooks (by BCcampus, Lumen Learning, and other users). OpenStax is part of Rice University, a nonprofit private university in Texas.
  • Pressbooks Directory: An incredible collection of publicly available OERs, all created, adapted or existing in the world of Pressbooks. Learn more about using the Pressbooks Directory.
  • PhET Interactive Simulations: Free interactive, research-based math and science simulations to engage students by learning through exploration and discovery via an intuitive, game-like environment.
  • SOL*R: Repository service to free online learning resources provided by BCcampus to facilitate sharing, discovery, reuse, and remixing of a growing collection of content created by BC post-secondary educators from a wide variety of disciplines and subject areas. Resources include open textbooks, individual learning activities and tools, and full programs.
  • WISC-ONLINE: Small, high quality digital library of web-based learning resources.

Search Tools

  • The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM): This search tool allows users to perform a real-time, federated search of more than 20 different sources of open educational materials, including OpenStax, OER Commons, MERLOT, and other repositories which contain public domain and openly licensed material. The search tool is maintained by librarians at George Mason University.
  • OASIS: This search tool searches for open content from among several hundred thousand records provided by more than 100 different sources. OASIS is maintained by librarians at SUNY Geneseo.

For Students

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OJS Training for participants:

References:

Research guides: Open education resources (oers): Find images, videos, and more. Find Images, Videos, and More – Open Education Resources (OERs) – Research Guides at Thompson Rivers University Library. (n.d.). https://libguides.tru.ca/oer/ancillary