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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]
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
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Retrieved 7 February 2017 from http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources
Cite this article as: Kurt, S. "Open and Free Educational Resources (OER) For Teaching & Learning," in Educational Technology, February 20, 2017. Retrieved from https://educationaltechnology.net/open-free-educational-resources-oer-teaching-learning/