Finding OER

Inasmuch as OER are simply educational materials that use a Creative Commons license, Google's advanced search make it ridiculously easy to find OER on almost any topic. Here's a reprise of the 60 second video showing you how.

David Wiley demonstrates how to use Google to find CC licensed material

There are also several specialty search engines that make finding OER easier. OER Commons Links to an external site. is one of the best. They not only aggregate information about OER to make them searchable, but they also categorize OER in several ways so that you can browse for, say, secondary social studies games Links to an external site..

OpenTapestry Links to an external site. also indexes a large collection of OER and provides some innovative tools for remixing OER once you find them. Play around with OpenTapestry a bit and see what you can make.