EDU 220: Technology for Teachers : Creative Commons Images

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Visit the McGovern Library's Open Education Resources guide for additional information on OER and where to find them!

The sources listed here have images and photos that can be downloaded for free with no or limited restrictions.

Creative Commons Image Search
CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. Aggregates results across multiple public repositories into a single catalog, facilitates reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.

Flickr
Images provided are listed under "no known copyright restrictions" and can be shared and used with appropriate attributions. 

Pexels
Provides high quality and completely free stock photos. No attribution required.

Pixabay
Provides royalty free photos and videos. Pictures are shared as part of the public domain with people all over the world.

Unsplash
Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash.

Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone.

OER repositories contain more than just open textbooks. Learning materials in these collections include full courses, syllabi, images, presentations, videos, simulations, and many more.

MERLOT
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

OER Commons
A digital public library and collaboration platform launched by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). OER Commons allows searching by material types, educational or grade levels, and subject disciplines.

California Open Online Library for Education (COOL4Ed)
Developed by the State of California Higher Education Systems who are working together to provide an easy access to quality OER that everyone can use for teaching and learning.

Open Course Library 
A collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – for 81 high-enrollment college courses. This collection was developed by the Washington State Colleges.

OpenStax CNX
A dynamic non-profit digital ecosystem that delivers educational content and learning objects. Organized into thousands of textbook-style books in a host of disciplines, all easily accessible online and downloadable to almost any device.