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Where to find OER
By Hongxin Yan in the group Teaching and Learning at Athabasca March 30, 2015 - 1:31pm
1. Use a specialized OER search engine
- Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) Alliance: www.globeinfo.org.
- Commonwealth of Learning (COL), www.col.org/OER,
- Folksemantic: www.folksemantic.com. (over 110,000 OER)
- DiscoverEd: http://discovered.labs.creativecommons.org/search/en. (The results come from other repositories such as OER Commons)
- Connexions and the Open Courseware Consortium (OCWC).
- Creative Commons Search: http://search.creativecommons.org.
- Open Courseware Consortium: www.ocwconsortium.org/courses/search.
2. Locate a suitable OER repository
- OpenLearn: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk.
- MedEd PORTAL: http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal (medical focus).
- MIT OCW: http://ocw.mit.edu.
- China Open Resources for Education (CORE): www.core.org.cn/en.
- AgEcon Search: http://ageconsearch.umn.edu (agricultural focus).
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Teacher Education in sub-Saharan Africa: www.tessafrica.net (teacher education focus).
3. Use OER directory sites
- OER Commons: www.oercommons.org.
- Commonwealth of Learning: www.col.org/OER.
- OER Africa: www.oerafrica.org.
[from"A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resource" -
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002158/215804e.pdf]
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