OER & CC Resources

Where to find Open Educational Resources (OER)

The following are three of the main portals to discover OER content, however there are many more discipline specific portals - ask your colleagues if they can recommend any:

• OER Commons Links to an external site. 
• MIT OpenCourseWare Links to an external site.      
• MERLOT Links to an external site.          

KnowHow

At University of Liverpool KnowHow offers workshops, webinars and online resources to help you and your students improve academic skills. Topics include academic writing, time management, referencing, presentations and statistics and much more. 

Available via the Commons area of Canvas. 

• Import/Download the resource
• Add to favourites
• Copy Resource Link

Find out more about KnowHow

Creative Commons (CC)

Find out more about CC and check out the CC browser extension which supports you in easily finding and correctly attributing CC materials through Chrome, Edge and Firefox.

• Creative Commons (CC) Website Links to an external site. 
• CC Licensing Tool Links to an external site.
• CC Search Browser Extension Links to an external site.

Other tools of interest:

Figshare

figshare Links to an external site. is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.  Edge Hill University has compiled a large repository of accessible resources using figshare.