By submitting the above-mentioned types of items to OER Matters, you can promote the work you are involved in, such as wiki, blogs, or conferences to the OER Commons community.
Just like the other submission forms, many of the questions on the“ Submit OER Matters Content ”form are self-explanatory. I’ll explain the fields where I anticipate you might have questions. This form differs from the others—there is more than one page. By clicking the“Next”button as you complete each page, you will be given the opportunity to rate, comment, create tags, and notes for this material.
Content Types : There are seven OER Matters content types:
- News Stories
- Articles and Reports
- Tools and Technology
- Organizations and Associations
- Conferences and Workshops
- Discussion Forums
- Blogs and Wikis
You can choose more than one content type. For example, if your content is a news story and is on a blog or wiki, choose both by clicking in the selection box next to each content type.
Content Topics : There are nine OER Matters content topics. They are listed below with a short description:
- How and Why of OER: The challenges and potential impact of OER.
- Teaching and Learning: The impact of OER for educators and learners.
- Localization: The process through which educational resources are adapted to meet local teaching and learning needs.
- Standards/Certifications: The alignment of curriculum standards to OER.
- Intellectual Property: Legal issues surrounding the sharing, use, and re-use of OER.
- Open Source: A movement, its activities, and concepts associated with the collaborative creation of freely available software source code.
- Technology: The latest innovations in and roles of OER-related technologies.
- Research: Models, methodologies, paradigms, and theories in the OER research community.
- Policy: Infrastructure, funding, stakeholders, accessibility, and other support mechanisms that sustain and grow OER.
Just like content type, you can choose more than one topic.
Content Creation Date : There are drop down menus to choose (in this order from left to right) year, month, day, hour, minute.
After completing the rest of this form, click the“Next”button. This takes you to a form to rate the material you are submitting. All of your information is automatically saved when you click“Next.”
There is a succession of pages with short forms; you reach each next page by clicking the“Next”button. On each“next”page you can add comments, keywords and/or tags, and notes. Click the“Save”button to submit your OER Matters content.
Recommend new oer
Complete the Recommend New OER form if you would like to recommend either Course-Related or Libraries and Collections OER. Using this form helps the OER Commons team become aware of more OER providers and materials to include in OER Commons. This in turn helps educators and learners connect with even more teaching and learning material.
Oer commons submission policy
The OER Commons Team reviews data contributed through the use of the forms mentioned above, but does not guarantee the accuracy of data submitted to us by others. Our policy requires that users submit only material that they own, have permission to use, and properly attribute. Consistent with this policy, we would remove items from our database found to be in violation of the rights and conditions of use for those materials.
Activity: submitting oer material
Choose materials to submit to OER Commons. Click on the appropriate link and submit your materials using the submission form:
- Submit your Course Materials
- Submit Your Library or Collection
- Submit OER Matters
- Recommend new OER materials
Activity: share your experience
In the OER Commons discussion“ How and Why of OER ,”post your stories, suggestions, and questions with using OER in your teaching and learning. Here are a few questions to consider in your post:
- What do you feel are the benefits of sharing OER?
- What issues have you encountered in sharing OER?
- How has sharing OER changed the way you work?
- If you have not shared your own materials, what keeps you from sharing?
For more information
The following resources have been selected to provide more information on concepts we covered in this module.
- OER Commons Matters: (External Link)
- OER Commons Conditions of Use: (External Link)
Other modules in this course include…
- Why OER?
- Finding OER Materials You Can Start Using Now
- Tagging, Rating, and Reviewing OER Materials
- My OER Portfolio
- OER Licensing and Conditions of Use
- What is Localization?
- Students and OER
- What are Open Textbooks?
- OER Case Study
- Glossary
This module showed how to submit your own content items or links to items about the field of open education to OER Commons. The next module,“ OER Licensing and Conditions of Use ,”will give an overview of the licensing and conditions of use in OER Commons as well as a general overview of licensing for OER.
Oer commons links
For more information about OER Commons, send an email to info@oercommons.org .
Use this feedback form to send OER Commons general feedback, a feature request, or information about a bug/problem you had using the site.
To see the ever-growing list of the new content providers and contributors to OER Commons, visit the Content Providers page often. You can be one too!
“Quotable quote”
People with shared interests have organized around shared documents, while in turn such documents have helped develop new interests.
About this module
The "How Tos" of OER Commons is a set of learning modules evolving out of the development of OER Commons ( (External Link) ), a teaching and learning network for free-to-use educational materials from around the world, created and licensed by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME).
Course contributors are Lisa Petrides, Amee Godwin, and Cynthia Jimes, and online learning consultant, Patricia Delich.
For more information, visit (External Link) and (External Link) .