Where to look for OER
There are lots of places to find openly licensed resources. Some websites curate OER into discipline, education level and/or resource type. Other websites include search functionality that enable us to refine our searches to only include openly licensed resources or other criteria.
Let’s take a closer look at other places to find CC-licensed material. Section 4.1 on OER includes many useful places to find specific types of openly licensed resources such as courses and textbooks. If you are looking for these types of resources, you may want to search these. Remember that different countries use different terminology for some disciplines. For example, ‘life sciences’ refers to disciplines including zoology, botany and biology, whilst ‘social science’ include subjects such as geography and economics. Different countries also have different education systems and you may need to think about what level the resources are labelled as being appropriate for, and whether this corresponds to your students’ needs.
You may already be familiar with eTekkatho [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] , which enables offline access to digital OER in universities, colleges and schools across Myanmar. ACU-OER promotes collaboration, open education and shares OER across the ASEAN region. The Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) provides country data and information that can be used with attribution. Open Development Myanmar provides CC BY-SA licensed tools and data.
Other useful tools include CC Search, which is a tool that lets you search 500 million openly licensed images.
Many platforms that enable CC licensing of works shared on their sites also have their own search filters to find CC content, like OER Commons. You can also filter searches on Google, Flickr and YouTube to look for openly licensed content or material with a CC licence.
If there is a particular type of content you are looking for, you may be able to narrow down particular sources to explore. Wikipedia offers a comprehensive listing of many major sources of CC material across various domains.
You can also search for works under a particular CC licence. Take a look at the Creative Commons overview of each licence that includes examples of projects and people using those licences:
When you find a work you would like to reuse, it is important to provide proper attribution for that resource. Do you remember the Title, Author, Source and Licence (TASL) from Section 3.1? We’ll take a closer look at how to use TASL to attribute a resource in Section 4.4.
Finally, you can also search for regionally specific OER using the OER World Map. For example, here is an overview of OER in Thailand.
Introduction