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What is an Open Educational Resource (OER)?
According to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, OER are:
“...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 repurposing by others.
OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge
(Hewlett Foundation, 2016).”
How to search and find OER
How to search and find OER
Search via a search engine, such as Google
Search through many different college and university library websites
A List of valuable OER sites
A List of valuable OER sites
This Open Educational Resource site is especially created for students in K-12.
According to the site, "Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals."
According to the D-PLACE website, "D-PLACE contains cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1400 human ‘societies’. A ‘society’ in D-PLACE represents a group of people in a particular locality, who often share a language and cultural identity. All cultural descriptions are tagged with the date to which they refer and with the ethnographic sources that provided the descriptions.
"These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, so they can be freely shared and re-posted".
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