2016

Open Content Resources

General
Poll Everywhere		http://www.polleverywhere.com/	Live Audience Polling Ask your audience a question They answer using SMS text messages, Twitter, or the web See real-time results
iTunes U		http://deimos3.apple.com/indigo/main/main.xml	Multimedia content created by professors and administrators of colleges and universities that is searchable by students, and can be downloaded and taken on the go.
Library of Congress		http://www.loc.gov/teachers/	Access to thousands of historical documents and images. Hundreds of lesson plans available for teachers to use.
Creative Commons		http://creativecommons.org/	Access to research, education, and cultural materials
Open Courseware Consortium		http://ocwconsortium.org/	Openly licensed course materials from hundreds of universities worldwide
MIT Open Courseware		http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm	Openly licensed course materials from more than 1,800 MIT courses
Open Learn		http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/	Open educational resources from The Open University
Merlot		http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm	Search Merlot’s collection of peer reviewed learning materials and pedagogy for content to include in your courses.
OER Commons		http://www.oercommons.org/	Using OER Commons, you can share what you know, browse for what others know, and edit or review content from around the world.
Quizlet		http://quizlet.com/	Quizlet is an easy to use application which allows you to produce not only interactive flash cards, but also automatically generates a whole raft of activities for each set of words you enter.
Anthropology
dmoz: open directory project	http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/		This website is edited and maintained by volunteer editors and it contains a directory of information available on the Web.
mar: Museum Anthropology Review	http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/mar		This is an open access journal that publishes articles, reviews, essays, obituaries, and other content.

Criminal Justice
The United States Department of Justice	http://www.justice.gov/	The Department of Justice web site offers a variety of resources including highlights of historical cases, photographs, press releases, and videos.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service	http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/AbstractDB/AbstractDBSearch.aspx	From the website, it states that NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
Education
Open Michigan	https://open.umich.edu/education/soe/educ403-winter2008	Materials for an Elementary Reading Instruction Course given at the University of Michigan including a syllabus, reading list, and several PowerPoint lectures are available for incorporation into your course.
Open Education Resources	http://www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=Education	Contains free-to-use content such as lectures, PowerPoint presentations, and multimedia items to include in your courses.
Emergency Management and Planning
Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency	http://www.pema.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pema_home/4463	This web site has links that include Incident reports, homeland security information, county emergency management websites, alerts and advisories, news reports, and general information.
Emergency Management Institute	http://training.fema.gov/	Training materials and web-based courses are linked on this web page for self-paced learning. Courses may include video content along with information for practice purposes.
Fire Science
Firefighters Online	http://www.firefightersonline.com/news/pennsylvania.asp	Register for free participation in message forums, and join discussions on various topics relating to Fire Science
Fire Science on iTunes U	http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fire-science-technology-program/id262682810	Links to various podcasts on Fire Science topics.
Geography
Connexions	http://cnx.org/ http://cnx.org/content/m32249/latest/	Find multiple resources to include in your classroom activities. This web site will provide a Geography lesson to incorporate into your classroom using ePals. Connexions
History
Smithsonian Learning Resources	http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/resources/education.asp	Use this resource for learning materials including an interactive Who Am I? mystery game.
Military History: Americans at War	http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html	This is an interactive page with information about historical conflicts.
White House Historical Association	http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_history/history.html	Located on this page are facts and trivia, history timelines, and new media and lectures. From this page, you can take a tour of the art located and displayed in the White House.
Gettysburg Address	http://logs2.smithsonian.museum/FlashBrowser/viewfa.html?path=kioskinteractives/GA_final/Document_gallery2.cis&aratio=1.77	Gettysburg Address read by Actor Liam Neeson
Human Services
Connexions	http://cnx.org/content/m33857/latest/	Part IV — Aging is a module you can use for your course as supplemental materials to the lessons you teach.
Case Management	http://cnx.org/content/m12682/latest/	This is a module that will offer directions for proper treatment and strategies for case managers
Political Science
Otter	http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/oer/oers/politics-and-international-relations	This web site offers course packs for materials to be included into your course.

Psychology
AmoebaWeb	http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/amoebaweb/	Maintained by a Professor of Psychology, this web site provides over 2000 links to Psychological content.
Psychology Research Guide	http://ubishops.ca.libguides.com/content.php?pid=45210&sid=334246	This web page contains links to 8 Psychology Journals you can access free of charge.
The Psychology Files	http://www.thepsychfiles.com/	Several podcasts related to Psychology.
Sociology
Open University	http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3847	This is an interview with a Social Worker .
temoa: Open Educational Resources Portal	http://www.temoa.info/taxonomy/term/30961 http://www.temoa.info/taxonomy/term/30964	Educational resources for teaching various topics within the Sociology Discipline including lecture webinars and podcasts.
More
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image	http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/	The University of Pennsylvania has made over 12,000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music available through their SCETI site.
Dmoz: open directory project	http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/	This is a human-edited directory of the Web, constructed and maintained by volunteer editors.
YouTube EDU	http://www.youtube.com/edu	This is a specific channel for Educational Content on YouTube. You can search this web site for video clips to include in your class content.
Academic Earth	http://academicearth.org	This is another searchable site for educational videos you can include in your course content.