Bryan College Library: Faculty and Staff Resources: OER & Open Access (No Cost) Resources

Free Instructional Resources During COVID-19

iClicker
iClicker makes it easy to track attendance, increase participation, facilitate quizzes, measure performance, and get more out of your classroom. iClicker works “out of the box” with PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, and all online courseware solutions.
Kahoot!
Kahoot is a tool for quizzing students in online learning. For affected universities the full version of Kahoot is free. Educators may request an account directly at Kahoot.
SoftChalk
SoftChalk, the education company that provides the premier online lesson creation and student interaction tool, is offering assistance to academic institutions and organizations to help educators meet the demands created by school closings and the temporary shift to online course delivery during the COVID-19 threat.
SoftChalk is offering an extended trial to anyone who may need it to quickly and easily create online lessons and course materials for delivery to students.
University Business: 82 free higher ed resources during coronavirus pandemic

EBSCO Faculty Select
EBSCO is offering a simplified version of Faculty Select that includes access to OER material as well as the option to discover more than 225,000 DRM-free EBSCO eBooks in one place, available at no charge for faculty to use through June 30th.

Cengage
Cengage is providing free access to Cengage Unlimited through the end of the current academic term for US students attending colleges affected by COVID-19. This includes the entire Cengage catalog of eBooks, online courseware, study tools, and more.
SAGE
To help you navigate the challenge of transitioning to teaching online, we have opened up access to the following resources to help you set up and manage an online course quickly and successfully, at no charge to you or your students.
Pearson Help for Moving Your Course Online
Do you need to move your course online as soon as possible? Quickly and easily get started and help your students continue their learning in a virtual environment.
Course Hero
All verified educators on Course Hero will have access to our document library of more than 40 million teaching and learning resources through September 30th.

COVID-19: Special Offers, Events, News, and Updates From Library Vendors, Publishers, Online Services, and Others
Netflix US YouTube Channel
For many years, Netflix has allowed teachers to screen documentaries in their classrooms. However, this isn’t possible with schools closed. So at their request, we have made a selection of our documentary features and series available on the Netflix US YouTube channel.
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https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/free-educational-documentaries
Online Resources to Help Adults Stay Sane in the Time of CoVid -19
Just for fun.
Resources for research, teaching and to support wellbeing
Access regularly updated resources to support teaching online, foster critical thinking, get your new research published, and connect it to those who will use it.
JSTOR Resources for 2021
Here is a selection of checklists, webinars, and reminders to help you get the most out of your access to JSTOR and Artstor and get you ready for the challenges of the new year.

Academic Info’s Digital Libraries List
By discipline or subject, a list of digital collections of publications, exhibits, journals, and exhibits.

ARTSTOR This link opens in a new window
An image database featuring an unparalleled range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository.
Video tutorial on using ARTSTOR:

More video tutorials for using ARSTOR

Bioscience Education Network
Portal for over 4,700 reviewed resources covering 77 bioscience topics.
Classroom Clipart
Creative Commons
Freely available images. Its "CC Search" Project offers access to more than ten million images across 13 providers.
Digital Collection of the University of Washington
Library of Congress
Includes a number of collections of documents, audio, video, photos, and maps.
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
Arts, business, education, humanities, math and stats, science and technology, social sciences.
The New York Public Library Digital Collections
Pixabay
Over 960,000 free stock photos, vectors, and art illustrations.