OER Web Resources

1. Open Educational Resources (OER)

●     OER Commons

●     OpenCourseWare Consortium

●     MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

●     Open Yale Courses

●     JHSPH OpenCourseWare (OCW)

●     OpenLearn (The Open University)

●     USQ OpenCourseWare

●     SJTU Open Courseware

●     Saudi Arabia?

○     National Centre for e-Learning & Disctance Learning

○     KFUPM Open Courseware

○     King Khalid University OCW

○     Qassim College of Medicine OCW

●     Pakistan?

○     Virtual University of Pakistan

●     Iran?

○     Farabi Institute of Higher Education OCW

●     Indonesia?

○     The University Indonesia

○     University of Sumatera Utara

○     UG OCW

●     Malaysia?

○     Universiti Teknologi Malaysia  OCW

○     Open University Malaysia OER

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●     All Open CourseWare (OCW)?
OCW Master List of courses (250+)

Open Textbooks (e-books)

●     Project Gutenberg

●     Open Textbook Catalog

●     Flat World Knowledge

●     College Open Textbooks

●     Community College Consortium of OER

●     CK-12 FlexBooks

●     Wikibooks

●     ManyBooks.net

●     20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks

MOOCs & Open Teaching

●     MOOC Guide

●     What is a MOOC? (Video)

●     UDACITY

●     Coursera

●     P2PU

●     University of the People

●     Sharing to Connect, Interact and Learn!

          (Online Talk by Zaid Ali Alsagoff)

Learning Repositories

●     iTunes U

●     EDU - YouTube

●     MERLOT

●     Khan Academy

●     Academic Earth

●     CMU OpenLearningInitiative

●     Connexions

●     WikiEducator

●     Wikiversity

●     Extreme Learning

●     Online College Classes

●     Curriki

●     Internet Archive

●     OER Africa

●     MEDtube

●     Quora

●     Wolfram Alpha

●     101 OER Resources

●     MORE OER (250+)

2. Copyright & OER

●     Creative Commons Video

●     Creative Commons (CC) Licenses

●     CC Comparison Table

●     Open Educational Resources Licensing Continuum

●     Article: http://edtechfrontier.com/tag/connexions/

●     CC License Selection Tool

●     If license used incorrectly will I be sued?

●     OER Risk Management Calculator

3. Finding OER

●     Google Custom Search

●     2 Great Starting Points!

○     OER COMMONS

○     OCW Consortium

●     Other Good OER Search Engines?

○     OCW Finder

○     Xpert

○     OER Recommender

○     Temoa

○     Curriki Search

○     University Learning = OCW+OER = Free

○     Knowledge Finder

○     Jorum

○     OER Dynamic Search Engine

○     Discover Ed

○     Folksemantic

●     OER Glue

●     Einztein

●     iBerry

●     Social Curation Tools

●     http://www.delicious.com/zaidlearn/

●     Create Your Own Customized OER Search!: Google Custom Search

●     Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-custom-search-for-openfree.html   

4. OER Case Studies

●     New Initiative: MITx (Article)

●     Salman Khan talk at TED 2011

●     Tools Salman Khan Used to Create the Videos?

●     Introduction Video: Coursera

●     OER Case Studies

●     Flickr Creative Commons

●     OER Funding Models

5. Creating & Sharing OER

●     Turning a resource into OER (video):

●     OER Development Cycle?(Source 1 and 2)

●     OER Educator Handbook

●     Alternative to University LMS:

○      Edmodo          

○      Schoology

●     Wiki tools:

○     Google Sites

○     Google Docs

○     Wikispaces

○     Wetpaint         

●     Blogging Tools:

○     Blogger

○     WordPress

○     Tumblr

○     Posterous

●     Authoring Tools:

○     Slideshare (slidecast example)

○     Prezi

○     Create Online Crossword Puzzles!

○     WizIQ (web conferencing)

●     Create Cartoons, Movies & Animations:

○     Xtranormal

○     Go Animate

○     Toondoo

●     Desktop Authoring Tools:

○     Courselab

○     Exe

●     Use your iPad to Create OER On-The-Fly:

○     Educreations

○     Explain Everything

●     Social Media Tools and tips

●     200+ Learning Tools

●     Just in Time Training To You (JiT2U) on Social media and Web 2.0

●     OER Gurus

○     Stephen Downes
   Home: http://www.downes.ca/
   Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/presentations  

○     George Siemens
   Home: http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/
   Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/gsiemens

○     David Wiley
   Home: http://davidwiley.org/
   Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/presentations

○     Stian Håklev
   Home: http://reganmian.net/blog
   Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/houshuang/presentations   

○     Curt Bonk
   Home: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/
   Presentations: http://www.trainingshare.com/workshop.php

●     Recommended OER resources (starting points):

○     Open Educational Resources - Educator Handbook

○     A Basic Guide to OER

○     UNESCO-COL Guidelines for OER in Higher Education