OER Resources

[Sandy Hirtz]

Let's build a library of OER Resources. Here are a few for starters. Please add to the list.

 

Books

1. West, P., Victor, L. (2011) Background and action paper on OER. A background and action paper for staff of bilateral and multilateral organizations at the strategic institutional education sector level. Report prepared for The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. April...
   
2. Hofman, J., West, P. (2011) Open Licences for Educators. A chapter in: Education for a Digital World 2.0. April 2011.

 

Websites

OER Commons, Open Education Resources - Find Free-to-Use Teaching and Learning Content from around the World. Organize K-12 Lessons, College Courses, and more.

 

Creative Commons Search offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations.

 

Citing an Online Image

Very important! If you are citing an image found in Google Images or any other image retrieval service, be certain to cite the image in its original context. Do not provide the URL of the enlarged image - you must use the URL of the page where the image was originally shown.

• Image creator's last name, first name, if available, or page author's name if available, followed by a period and a space
• Title of photo followed by a period, in quotation marks. If no title, describe briefly within quotation marks.
• Descriptive word (photo, map, cartoon, drawing, etc,) followed by a period and a space
• Website title in italics, followed by a space
• Website publication date in DD Mo. YYYY format followed by a period and a space
• Date image was viewed in DD Mo. YYYY format followed by a space
• Web address in angle brackets, followed by a period

example:
Suzuki, Lea. "Mick Jaggar." Photo. SFGate.com 14 Nov. 2005. 14 Nov. 2005

a href="http://www.sfgate.com>">http://www.sfgate.com>;.

 

The APA guide for Referencing Digital Resources.

[David Wees]

Search engines, and other ways to find OER and Creative Commons content would also be useful:

 

Search for Creative Commons licensed works:

http://creativecommons.org

http://flickr.com (some CC stuff)

http://jamendo.com

 

Creative Commons licensed textbooks/learning materials:

http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/

http://cnx.org/

 

[Cara Elrod]

I have been working on a Google Doc for the teachers at my school with free (or available at small cost) curriculum resources. This is the link.

[Trevor Schofield]

I have 4000 science links on Delicious cataloged to the BC learning outcomes- most of them are interactive/simulations/tutorials

[Cara Elrod]

Trevor,

Could you post the link to this?  thanks, Cara

[Trevor Schofield]

Hi Cara here is the logon to Delicious (this is where the links are cataloged) through Moodle



 I will keep the enrolment key for a couple of weeks so you have a time to browse through the resources
1 Copy and paste the link  http://pacificaonline.ca/moodle/course/enrol.php?id=28 into  a browser
2  Click on Guest
3  Type in 108 for the enrolment key
4 Click on Sign In-this will take you to the final sign in page 
5 Click on Sign In

Delicious click here to access the resources

Cheers Trevor

[Cara Elrod]

Thanks Trevor, it looks very helpful, Cara

[Claire Thompson]

I took a fantastic weeklong online course called Open Content Licensing for Educators which was facilitated by Wayne Mackintosh Director of the OER Foundation and Founder of WikiEducator.  All of the content of the course is still available for anyone who wishes to know more about Open Educational Resources, just go here.  You can also check out my diigo bookmarks tagged OER here.

Cheers!

[Rosalind Warner]

Here is a library of open educational resource libraries I've been maintaining for some time now.  I hope it is helpful. http://online-educational-resource-libraries.wikispaces.com/