We have curated this Open Education Resource (OER) guide to support King's staff who design and deliver online learning.

OERs are teaching and learning materials that have been made and shared by other educators around the world. They are freely available through an open license that allows you to re-use or adapt them. Copyright information can be found on each individual site. OERs are available at all levels of study and across the disciplines.

A Google search for Open Educational Resources can produce many results, which can be usefully narrowed down by appending discipline and level of study to your search terms. The larger repositories also link to useful resources; and guides to OERs produced by HE institutions across the world may also be worth consulting.

Our teaching provision for 2020/21 must remain demonstrably a King’s education. OERs are best used when seeking inspiration for teaching a complicated topic online, or for offering students supplementary revision exercises.

There are some key repositories to start your search for OERs. They are not always aimed at Higher Education, and quality and validity can vary.

We recognise that there may be potential for suitable, high-quality digital content to be incorporated into teaching from partner universities, or for publicly available content to be utilised. The list below directs you to some of the useful and well-known OERs currently available.

Open textbooks

Open Source & Public Domain books, images and multimedia

Many digital libraries and full text resources exist and these are often available for use in Higher Education. A non-exhaustive list highlighting prominent sites is below.