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Jeffrey Williams Post 1

• 8 June 2018, 10:29 PM

Connections

I have difficulty, sometimes, with trying to make connections between the world of open educational resources and my actual teaching.  It seems so simple and so straightforward.  However, my major problem is trying to find the time to sit down and do the research necessary to find the actual resources.  The gap must be bridgeable since so many have not only made use of them but have also, indeed, based their careers on researching open education.

I want to enrich my courses with open educational resources, but I really don't know where to start to find the best ones available.

Are there two or three places out there that are good repositories for open education resources?



Irwin Devries Post 2 in reply to 1

• 12 June 2018, 6:52 AM

One of the simplest ways to find them is either through straightforward web searcehs with "OER" included, or looking at any of a number of university libraries, many of which have excellent directories that help to narrow your search. A simple search for "OER repositories" in Google just now produced many good starting places for me. In my own practice I have found that I have saved up to 50% of course development time by finding, incorporating and adapting OER rather than starting from scratch. Another trick is to find an open textbook in your subject and just take what you need out of it, if you wish. In a properly licensed OT, every part of it can be seen as an OER.