Find OER
Find OER
OER Campus in Stud.IP
 | OER materials can be searched for using the search bar, with filters helping to display only videos, for example. Clicking on an entry in the hit list displays the metadata and various buttons can be used to download the OER, add it to a course or, if necessary, open the website of the material. |
OER can be found on individual websites, in subject-specific repositories, regional or institutional repositories, explicit OER repositories and generally everywhere on the internet. Only what is labelled as OER for search engines can be found - which can sometimes make the search somewhat difficult.
Here is a small selection of OER portals, search engines and other resources to make your search easier:
twillo.de
 | twillo.de is a portal for OER in university teaching and is supported by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and Culture. |
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Other Federal States also have their own OER initiatives, an overview of which can be found here:
Other OER repositories in Germany
Other portals, search engines and other good sources for OER
OER Info provides a collection of OER directories and services, including search services, collections of materials for subjects and educational areas as well as train-the-trainer materials and services that bundle and disseminate OER activities.
This portal also covers a wide range of topics relating to OER, from "What is OER" and "OER knowledge" to "How To" guides, a blog and an OER calendar with current events.
OERSI is a search engine for free educational materials in higher education and is a project of the North Rhine-Westphalia University Library Centre (hbz) and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
OER search engines
Openverse.orgThisEnglish-language site can beusedto find openly licenced and public domain works (especially images, audio and video). The specific licence conditions should be checked briefly for each item found.
Elixirisa joint offer of public information services in the form of a shared resource pool for teaching/learning materials, especially for school lessons.
Wikimedia Commons is a collection of many freely usable media files.
WirLernenOnline is a search engine for OER materials in the school sector.
MUNDO is an open educational media library for everyday school life.
Other resources
A list of the 200 best OER sources (as of 2022) is provided by the operators of #OERcamp.
Common search services or providers such as Google, Bing, Yandex or Flickr, Freesound or YouTube also offer the opportunity to search for materials under a free licence.
- There is a short guide for Google here as a PDF or for reusers as a Word document.
- For YouTube, here is a short guide as a PDF or for reusers as a Word document.