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    [Hands–on- Activity]

    Open Educational Resources

    What are OERs?


    Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely
    available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner.
    Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework
    assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games,
    simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around
    the world. JISC OER Infokit

    Useful resources
    JISC OER Toolkit:
    https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836860/What%20are%20Open%20Edu
    cational%20Resources
    Open Learn (Over 600 free courses from the Open University): http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
    MIT Open Courseware initiative (over 2000 free courses, lectures notes and materials) :
    http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
    LSE DELILA project: http://opendelila.wordpress.com
    Kings OER Project website: http://keats.kcl.ac.uk/course/category.php?id=11
    UNESCO OER http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-
    knowledge/open-educational-resources/

    Open Educational Resources


    Name/Details of the Site Web Link
    OER Commons www.oercommons.org
    NPTEL www.youtube.com/nptelhrd
    http://nptel.iitk.ac.in/
    SAKSHAT www.sakshat.org
    National Repository of Open Education http://nroer.gov.in/home/
    Resources
    Teacher Portal ( Class room resources) http://www.teachersofindia.org/en
    Open Resources for Schools ( Home baba http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/research-
    Centre for Science and Education) development/projects/open-educational-
    resources-for-schools-oer4s
    National Institute of Open Learning http://www.nios.ac.in/online-course-
    material.aspx
    Lecture fox http://www.lecturefox.com
    MIT http://techtv.mit.edu
    http://ocw.mit.edu
    http://video.mit.edu/
    Berkeley University http://ocw.uci.edu
    Yale University http://oyc.yale.edu
    Princeton University www.princeton.edu/webmedia
    John Hopkings University http://ocw.jhsph.edu
    Rice University http://cnx.org
    Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/oli
    [Hands–on- Activity]
    Open Educational Resources
    Tufts Open Courseware http://ocw.tufts.edu
    University of Notre Dame http://ocw.nd.edu
    Utah State University http://ocw.usw.edu
    Utah Open Courseware Alliance http://uocwa.org
    Paris Tech Graduate School http://graduateschool.paristech.org
    Open University of Nederland http://ocw.tudelft.nl
    University of Southern Queensland http://ocw.usq.edu.au/
    New Zealand OER Project http://www.repository.ac.nz
    United Nations University http://www.ocw.unu.edu
    Vietnam http://ocw.vn/index.ocw
    http://ocw.fetp.edu.vn/home.cfm
    Open Courseware Mexico http://ocw.itesm.mx

    Open Courseware Consortium http://www.ocwconsortium.org/


    Open learning object repository: (Merlot) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.ht
    m?materialType=Learning%20Object%20Rep
    ository&category=372822&sort.property=ove
    rallRating
    Open textbooks: (Connexions) http://cnx.org
    Aggregated video: Academic Earth http://www.academicearth.org
    Mixed Media: Wikimedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_media
    University of Minnesota: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
    (Open academics textbook catalog)
    Open access research: (DOAJ) www.doaj.org
    Open textbooks for K12: (Siyavula) http://www.siyavula.com/

    Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/


    OER Africa http://www.oerafrica.org/
    Carnegie Mellon University ( Open http://oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/see-our-
    Learning Initiative) free-open-courses/
    The Open Video Project http://www.open-video.org/
    WiKiEducator Project http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
    WiKiversity http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:M
    ain_Page

    Project Oscar ( Open Source Coursware http://oscar.iitb.ac.in/oscarHome.do;jsessioni


    Animations repository) d=71850E51474C038380686931C2F2AB72

    Finding OERs
    Jorum (UK repository for teaching and learning materials): http://jorum.ac.uk

    LSE Learning Resources Online: http:l//earningresources.lse.ac.uk/

    DiscoverEd (find materials licensed under Creative Commons):


    http://wiki.creativecommons.org/DiscoverEd
    [Hands–on- Activity]
    Open Educational Resources

    Xpert (tool for finding OERs from Nottingham University): http://xpert.nottingham.ac.uk/

    OER Commons (find resources for all educational levels) : http://www.oercommons.org/

    A longer list of resources is available at:


    https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/27045418/Finding%20OERs

    Evaluating OERs

    DELILA Evaluation Criteria for Digital and Information Literacy OERs:


    http://delilaopen.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/delila_criteria-for-evaluating-oersv2.doc

    JISC Evaluation and Synthesis Wiki: https://oersynth.pbworks.com/w/page/29595671/OER-


    Synthesis-and-Evaluation-Project

    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

    Hands-on activity

    Visit the Jorum website (http://jorum.ac.uk) and search for an OER related to your subject area.
    OR explore the KCL resources in academic practice
    (http://keats.kcl.ac.uk/course/category.php?id=11).

    Using the form below, consider how you might use this resource in your teaching and evaluate the
    resource using the form below. If you finish this activity, search for OERs in another collection and
    carry out second evaluation. Please ask for an additional form.

    Name of resource:

    Brief description:

    1. What is your immediate reaction to the resources (in terms of accessibility, layout,
    intuitiveness, coherence as a package)

    a) Is the resource specific and practical?


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    Open Educational Resources

    b) Reusability: can the resource be adapted to suit others needs?

    c) Is the resource accessible and structured logically?

    2. How might you use this resource in your teaching?

    a) Would you adapt it or use it as it is?

    b) What issues can you foresee if you used this resource?


    [Hands–on- Activity]
    Open Educational Resources
    c) What advantages for using this resource, as opposed to creating your own material?

    3. What will students be able to learn from this resource?

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