XAVIER SCHOOL NUVALI
Learning Resource Center
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. ---UNESCO
Below are links to some of the most popular OER sites that are helpful to teachers and students.
FOR GRADE SCHOOL
The Let's Read library is full of books that explore important topics such as gender equality, environment and climate action, diversity, understanding and empathy, and STEAM. Every book can be downloaded and printed for offline use.
Free Kids Books is a growing library of unique children’s books, literary resources, and textbooks for children and young adults, available online and for download primarily in a user-friendly pdf format. Books are categorized per age group: toddlers, children, and young adults.
Unite for Literacy provides free digital access picture books with audio narration of different languages including Tagalog. It pictures a world where all children have access to an abundance of books that celebrate their languages and cultures and cultivate a lifelong love of reading.
The Globe eLibrary is both a web platform and mobile application that provides students and educators with free and quick access to digital story books and eLearning videos. It features age-appropriate and engaging educational resources tailored to children and young adults in the Philippines. Users can enjoy free access to hundreds of digital titles and video content through their mobile phone, tablet, laptop, and desktop computer.
Children's Library is a collection of digitized books at the Internet Archive. These books are from the University of California Libraries, the University of Florida's "Literature for Children" Collection, National Yiddish Book Center, New York Public Library, International Children's Digital Library and some libraries that sponsored books to Internet Archive.
The ICDL is part of the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation, a nonprofit organization that encourages children all over the globe to read. It provides free access to high-quality children’s books from around the world in different languages, including Arabic, Afrikaans, Danish, English, Farsi and beyond.
Fable cottage created new versions of traditional tales especially for language learners, teachers, and anyone who enjoys a nice story. Traditional stories are retold in modern language and are translated in four languages: French, Spanish, Italian, and German.
Brainpop is an animated educational websites for K-12 students. It offers curriculum based animated movies, learning games, interactive quizzes, primary source activities, and additional resources for students. Its topics span Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Engineering & Tech, Health, and Arts & Music.
Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners. Storyline Online is a program of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization that relies entirely on gifts, grants and donations to fund Storyline Online and produce all of its videos
FOR HIGH SCHOOL
Free-to-use resources for students, teachers, parents, or anyone interested in deeper learning! Educational resources are segmented into topics they may encounter depending on their education level.
PhysicsCentral, a web site run by The American Physical Society (an organization representing 48,000 physicists), has created a series of comic books designed to get kids excited about physics. Among other comics, you can can read Nikola Tesla and the Electric Fair for free online.
Starbooks contains thousands of digitized Science and Technology resources in various formats (text and video/audio) placed in specially designed “pods” set in a user-friendly interface.
A growing collection of professional quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed, editable intro-level textbooks. All textbooks are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) and are freely available in PDF, HTML, ePub, and customizable via Connexions (cnx.org).
Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Salman Khan, with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators. All resources are available for free to users of the website and app.
OER Commons is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials.
This non-profit provides “open textbooks” for K-12 students all over the world. It offers free high-quality, standards-aligned, open content in the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
The Open Textbook Library is a collection of over 700 freely available electronic textbooks licensed under one of six Creative Commons licenses. Some books include faculty peer reviews. All can be read online and are downloadable for offline reading.
The mother of all ebook sites hosts 40000 free ebooks, and makes them accessible for Kindle, Android, iPad, and iPhone.