Open Educational Resources (OER): Images, Audio & Video

All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository that is completely dedicated to providing educational media that are released either in the public domain or under Creative Commons license. Search tip: To check the license information on any image, scroll down the page to the Licensing section.

Flickr hosts millions of Creative Commons-licensed images. Notably, Flickr provides a separate Creative Commons licensed videos collection. Search tip: After searching with a keyword, click the "Any license" filter to narrow down to images with different kinds of open licenses.

The Unsplash license uses the Creative Commons Zero license, which doesn’t require credit to be given. However, they encourage giving credit to the photographer if possible, since they generously donated their photographs for use by the public.

Morguefile is a free photo archive. The site was created to serve as a free image exchange for creative professionals and teachers to use in their work. Search Tip: Search by keyword and then click on the license link for more specific info on how to use that image.

This is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent sites. Includes several sites that provide images, audio, and video.

TED Videos are not officially licensed with any kind of open licensing. However, TED allows the users to freely view and download the videos without restraint. The website is provided as a public service to promote the spread of good ideas.

TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed Originals are short, award-winning animated videos about ideas that spark the curiosity of learners everywhere.

Khan Academy provides top-quality educational videos that are organized by discipline and skill levels. They provide videos from various disciplines including Math, Science, Economics, Finance, and Humanities.

YouTube provides millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos (among their billions of video collections). The key is filtering them to isolate the Creative Commons-licensed ones.

Like YouTube, Vimeo hosts millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos. In addition, Vimeo provides a separate Creative Commons licensed video collection which makes the filtering process much easier.

This is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent sites. Includes several sites that provide images, audio, and video.

iTunes U is a vast learning resource offering free educational content that users can download from Apple's iTunes Store straight to their computer or mobile devices. The Open University joined iTunes U in 2008, making available a range of high quality audio-visual assets used in their courses.

This is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent sites. Includes several sites that provide images, audio, and video.

The Digital Media Bank Provides links to resources, including images, sound, and video, for the purpose of enriching online curriculum. From California State University - Chico.

This is a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

Listen to music, interviews, field recordings, and more from the Library's historic sound recording collections.

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. There is a FAQs page for Educators.