Open Educational Resources

Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. Communities use and alter OER according to their requirements and constraints. A scientific analysis of these alteration, forking or extension of OER provide insights in the drivers and needs of communities.

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Contents

The following resources can be found in these Subpages:

• Introduction - Introduction to OER
• Lesson - Lesson on OER
• Sources - Sources of OER (table of resources w/ counts of data available from each)
• Student Authoring - Resources supporting student-authored content
• Adoptions - Schools and courses using OER
• Classifying educational resources
• Open Courses - Open course lists
• Open Textbooks - Open textbook lists
• Training - For teachers
• Geographic Information Systems and tailored educational resources for a specific region
• Tailored WikiBooks
• Green Open Access
• Wikiversity:Edit-a-thon to create OER

Learning Activities

• (w:en:UNESCO) Explore the recommendation of UNESCO on Open Educational Resources and derive an application to your institutional setting:
  • as a teacher for designing classroom activities,
  • as a learner/student to perform the learning tasks in the classroom (e.g. supporting material as OER for performing a learning task)
• (Digital Public Good) Explore and compare the concept of
  • digital public good,
  • common goods and
  • OER

and identify similarities and differences between these concepts. How can digital public goods can trigger as building blocks for an Open Innovation Ecosystem. What are the benefits, challenges and constraints?

See Also

• Intellectual Honesty
• Open academia
• Open Badges as digital certificates and record of achievements for OER courses and learning activities
• Open Community Approach and OER as one main constituent
• PanDocElectron for using Wikiversity Resource as Slide Presentations with the option to annotate slides in a browser with a stylus
• Reproducible Science
• Open educational resources (Wikipedia)
• Open Innovation Ecosystem

External Learning Resources for OER

• Lumen Learning: Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Classroom
• Hawaii.edu: OER Training