OER Commons

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OER Commons is ranked #6 of 30 in teacher resource libraries on The Geeks Club. It runs on Web. There is a free plan.

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OER Commons free account Free Access the digital library · Open Author · Create groups · Collaborate to curate or remix content · Save resources to a personal profile iskme.org · 30 Sept 2026

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Purpose: OER Commons is an openly accessible digital library for educators to find high-quality open educational resources and collaborate around their use, evaluation, and improvement.
Audience: The library serves K–12 and higher education educators, librarians, and homeschooling parents.
Open Author: A free account enables users to create or publish open educational resources using tools such as Open Author.
Hubs: Hubs let organizations develop collections, manage content, facilitate conversations, and share information about their work.
Microsites: Custom microsites can have independent libraries and domains, tailored metadata and content creation, and analytics dashboards.
LMS integration: ISKME offers data integration and API integration services to connect OER Commons with learning management systems.
Metadata formats: ISKME says its tools can receive OER feeds in Dublin Core, IEEE Learning Object Metadata, and RSS, and provide targets for harvesting content in those formats.
Accessibility: Open Author includes an accessibility checker, requires alt text for embedded images, and automatically captions videos uploaded to an Open Author resource.
Accessibility review: ISKME says it has completed two full platform accessibility audits meeting WCAG 2.1 AA standards and is conducting another review.
Accessibility responsibility: ISKME states that authors and users are responsible for ensuring resources meet accessibility requirements, and that many indexed resources are hosted by external providers.
Support: ISKME provides content curation by digital librarians and directs organizations to contact [email protected] about product and service offerings.
Legacy content limit: OER Commons says it will remove resources created in the legacy Open Author 1 editor on December 31, 2026; Open Author 2 resources are not affected.
Maker: OER Commons was created by ISKME, which describes itself as a global nonprofit.
Founded: 2007
Price from: Free

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Teacher Resource Libraries in 2026#6 of 30
Best Open Educational Resource Platforms in 2026#5 of 27

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iskme.org· checked 30 Sept 2026
iskme.org/platforms-tools-and-training/· checked 30 Sept 2026
iskme.org/oer-support/· checked 30 Sept 2026
iskme.org/iskme-accessibility-statement/· checked 30 Sept 2026
help.oercommons.org/support/solutions/articles/42000118181-· checked 30 Sept 2026
oercommons.org· checked 23 Sept 2026