EDIT 801: Nature & Process of Design

The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. The OER Metafinder performs a simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials. Because it is a real-time, federated search, it can take a bit longer than searches of pre-indexed, curated content; however, as compensation the results returned are absolutely up-to-the-minute for each search target.

This site includes information on copyright basics, fair use, the Creative Commons, and when and how to get permission to use a resource(s).

This step-by-step guide to narrow down the number of things you need to consider when using copyright-protected materials and to figure out what you need to do to ensure your use is permissible.

Creative Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world.

DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

Established to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate available documents of enduring value to researchers, industry, government, scholars, writers, historians, journalists and informal learners.

OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based whose mission is to give every student the tools they need to be successful in the classroom. They publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education.

This site has been around for years, and for good reason – it meets the needs of K-12 teachers. In addition to the usual assortment of OER content, teachers will find full lesson plans that are easily incorporated into classrooms.

Curriki is a nonprofit global community that offers free K-12 learning resources for teachers, students, and parents. The resources on Curriki cover a wide range of subjects in the arts and sciences.

Integrates core instructional practices like real-time assessment, rubric-grading, and digital learning activities into the Learning Navigator to support the learning needs of all students.

Content includes interactive challenges, assessments, and video in an array of topics for kindergartners through adult learners.

Lumen is dedicated to facilitating broad, successful adoption of OER at higher education and K-12 institutions.