EIU Faculty Development and Innovation Center

Additional Faculty Resources

FDIC on D2L

The Faculty Development and Innovation Center course site within D2L Brightspace has been moved to the current semester (Fall 2018). The FDIC site is open to all faculty and provides access to news and information. Through this course site, all faculty teaching this semester can access the 20 Minute-Mentor Commons, a series of programs on refining and rethinking teaching face-to-face, online and blended courses, at both the individual course and the department/program level. If you are faculty, but not teaching this semester and are unable to access the FDIC course site in D2L, email us at fdic@eiu.edu. 

Free Teaching Resources

Images

Links to a variety of free images on various subjects and content:

• Creative Commons
• Flickr - free images that include collections added from the British Library and United States National Archives
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art -  approximately 25,000 images from around the world. NOTE: Select the Show Public Domain Images Only option to view copyright-free images
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - images of artworks that its curators believe to be in the public domain available for unrestricted use (in accordance with the Creative Commons Zero designation).  NOTE: Select the Open Access option to search the collection
• New York Public Library -  well over 180,000 items such as, illustrations, maps, photos, ephemera such as menus, and manuscripts
• United States Department of Agriculture - thousands of animal, plant and people images
• United States Library of Congress’s collection

Audio

Links to a variety of free audio books/podcasts on various subjects and content:

• NPR - National Public Radio podcast library you may browse by category or topic
• Open Culture - List of hundreds of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction audio books (NOTE: please scroll down past the ad to locate the alphabetic listing of authors/titles)
• Free Sound - Hundreds of free sounds for poscasts, lectures, etc.
• Creative Commons Music - Hundreds of public domain music, sounds, and mixes
• Free Music Archive - an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU
• Youtube Free Music - Free music and sound effects
• Free Stock Music - Offers a 100% royalty free license to use the music without any licensing fees. 
• Free PD - This music is all licensed CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
• Silverman Sound Studios - You must give credit if you wish to use any free music tracks.
• King James Royalty Free Music - blog provides free music for media studies students and independent productions.