OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
by: Vladimir Miranda // 08/25/2020
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. OER form part of ‘Open Solutions’, alongside Free and Open Source software (FOSS), Open Access (OA), Open Data (OD) and crowdsourcing platforms.
Below are the compiled OER’s that can help the Wesleyan Community to cope with the new normal.
DepEd Commons was designed as a direct solution to give access to online review materials and Open Educational Resources (OERs) during class suspensions and other similar circumstances.
OER Commons (OER for open educational resources) is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials.
Link: oercommons.org
MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is an online repository and international consortium of institutions (and systems) of higher education, industry partners, professional organizations and individuals. MERLOT partners and members are devoted to identifying, peer reviewing, organizing and making available existing online learning resources in a range of academic discipline for use by higher education faculty and students.
The BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide is an excellent resource to help you plan, prepare, write, and publish an open textbook.
Link: https://open.bccampus.ca/
AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use.
Link: https://amser.org/
Open Culture highlights the best free cultural and educational media available on the web. Open Culture sifts through the world of audio and video, find the bits of media that make learning dynamic, productive, and fun, and then present them to people in an organized way.
The Teaching Commons showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities and makes them available to educators and students around the world. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.