Open Educational Resources (OERs): Media

This is a list of Creative Commons licensed image-based media.

Free stock photos. Searchable. Requires free account.

Royalty-free high-resolution images. Themed image "packs" available on a donation basis.

Flickr is a photo-sharing site with photos uploaded by users. To see photos that are free to use, change the dropdown menu in the upper left corner from "Any License" to "All Creative Commons" after you search.

Free images of food.

Free wireframing design elements, icons, vector images, backgrounds, textures, and patterns.

Searchable. Must pay to download larger versions of images.

Searchable. Requires free sign-up.

Searchable. Requires free registration.

In the drop-down for "usage rights" change it to any of the "free to use" options for CC images.

Free, quirky photographs

Free photos, arranged by category. Requires attribution.

Free photographs in the public domain. Not searchable; must be browsed.

Free stock photos

Free images in the public domain

Free stock photos, primarily of architecture and landscapes

Free stock photos. Hover over photos to see licensing. Sortable by color and public domain versus attribution requirements.

Free stock photos under various Creative Commons licenses.

Vintage photographs in the public domain

Digitized images from the New York Public Library (mostly older images)

Content can be used for most purposes, excluding political content. Find more licensing information at https://www.pexels.com/license/. Author attribution is not required but is appreciated.

Mostly close-up stock photos. Not searchable; must be browsed.

A small collection of free, high-resolution images

Photos, GIFs (https://pixabay.com/gifs/), and vector images (https://pixabay.com/vectors/), which can be resized without distortion, for non-commercial purposes. Attribution is recommended but not required by the Pixabay license (https://pixabay.com/service/license-summary/).

Photos in the public domain. Not searchable; must browse.

Free stock photos, sortable by category

Free stock photos under a CC0 license--that means the creators have placed them in the public domain and you can use them for free, even without attributions.

Travel photos in the public domain

Free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes, but paid membership is required for images marked with a plus sign in the upper left corner of the preview image. Permission for using free images is not needed, but attribution is appreciated. Find more licensing information at https://unsplash.com/license. Use the search bar or browse by category.

Over 14 million contributed media files -- free to use. Use the Community Portal to learn more about uploading and using files.

The online royalty free public domain clip art page.

Open and public domain clipart.

Free streaming video series' on most subjects for use by individuals or instructors.

History, Science, and Economics videos on YouTube

"This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts."

Many universities offer audio or video recordings of on-campus lectures or lessons specifically designed for distance learners through iTunes U. (This content is only available through the iTunes application.)

11,000+ videos!

106 full-length programs on current social, political, business, and public health issues.

Watch full length documentaries and lesser-known movies for free.

Within TED-Ed’s growing library of lessons, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can then distribute TED-Ed lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Watch, search, or browse their TED Talks videos here, or take a look around the rest of the site at any of the other TED activities going on.

Provide access to videos of lectures, talks, conferences and courses at UCLA

Use the facets to the left to refine your results

Free video recordings of course lectures and events at the University of California, Berkeley up through Spring 2015

Full courses available. 'All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format. Registration is not required and no course credit is available.'

Video from major universities

This is a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses. Music on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons license. You are free to download and sample from music on this site and share the results with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Some songs might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses. Each submission is marked clearly with the license that applies to it.

This is a list of Creative Commons licensed audio media.

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.

We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research. Many audio research institutions have trouble finding correctly licensed audio to test their algorithms. Many have voiced this problem, but so far there hasn't been a solution.

Many universities offer audio or video recordings of on-campus lectures or lessons specifically designed for distance learners through iTunes U. (This content is only available through the iTunes application.)

Jamendo is the world's #1 platform for free and legal music downloads. Publishing your music on Jamendo guarantees you efficient referencing on the web, which will increase your music's visibility. Thanks to our community of members, Jamendo also enables you to get feedback on your music from around the world. You can check your popularity through detailed statistics. You can also opt in to commercial programs to get money and extra exposure.

Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net for free. All our audio is in the public domain, so you may use it for whatever purpose you wish.

Scroll down to the "Media" section for free sound clips of all types

Interactive simulations in Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Interactive simulations in Chemistry from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Interactive simulations in Earth Sc ience from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Interactive simulations in Math from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Interactive simulations from the University of Colorado at Boulder

Content and animations related to the study of modern genetics