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Open and Free Educational Resources (OER) For Teaching & Learning

Last Updated March 9, 2017 By Dr. Serhat Kurt

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Open Educational Resources (OER) are open-license materials (freely accessible) that can be used for teaching and learning.

OER can be defined as:

“teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge” [1]

Open Educational Resources

The list includes:

  • Open courses
  • Open Textbooks and curricula
  • Open services and platforms
  • Open media materials
  • E-books

A list of open educational resources (OER):

  • ALT Open Access Repository (Arts, Education, Science, Social Sciences, Math, Humanities, Business) > Different types of resources
  • American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbook Initiative (Math) > Open source and open access mathematics textbooks
  • BCcampus > Textbooks
  • Book Boon (Varies) > Free ebooks and textbooks
  • Boundless > Textbooks
  • Open Learning Initiative (Carnegie Mellon University) > Online free courses
  • College Open Textbooks > Open textbooks
  • Cool 4 Ed > Open online library for education
  • Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (University of Texas at Austin) > Languages
  • Eliademy > A free e-learning platform that allows anybody to create online courses.
  • Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) > retired in June 2015. Other government resources:
    • Kids.gov > Information for Kids, Parents and Teachers
    • EDSITEment: The Best of the Humanities on the Web
    • Education on Science.gov > More than 200 million pages of federal science information
  • HarvardX MOOCs > Harvard’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
  • iBerry > information and resources for online learners, researchers, educators
  • iMathAS > Math
  • The Open University on iTunes U > Various subjects
  • Khan Academy > Various subjects
  • Library of Congress > public domain works
  • Merlot II > Multimedia Education Resources for Learning and Online Teaching
  • Merlot X > Free Online Textbooks
  • MIT OPEN COURSEWARE > Free and open publication of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum
  • North Carolina Learning Object Repository > K-12
  • Notre Dame Open Course Ware > NotreDameX
  • OER World Map >  documents OER initiatives around the world
  • Open Course Library > A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses.
  • Open Education Consortium > Resources, tools and practices
  • Open Textbook Library > University of Minnesota
  • OpenTextBookStore > Math, Statistics, Liberal Arts
  • Open Yale Courses > Lectures and course materials
  • OpenDOAR > Directory of Open Access Repositories
  • Open Stax > Learning materials
  • Project Gutenberg > Free ebooks
  • Resource Repository > Health sciences
  • Saylor Academy> Free online courses
  • Teach Astronomy > Astronomy
  • Textbook Equity > Free college level textbooks
  • Textbook Revolution > Textbooks
  • The Learning Exchange > Online digital library
  • Wikiversity > Various – Free content
  • WikiEducator > open educational resources

REFERENCES

  1. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Retrieved 7 February 2017 from http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources

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