Oer tools to identify and select
Lesson components
- Fast Fact
- Skill/Objective
- Success Indicators
- Introduction
- Activity
- Review questions
- Resources
Fast fact
Open Educational Resources (OER) are “digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.” Term first adopted at UNESCO’s 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries funded by the Hewlett Foundation. - from Wikipedia
Skills/objectives
Learners will be able to:
- Identify resources for use of primary sources as learning materials in their own teaching disciplines.
- Locate at least one primary source for use in teaching.
- Develop a lesson plan using primary sources.
Success indicators
- OER added to learner's own online collection or portfolio.
- OER review posted by the learner.
- Posted lesson plan that uses at least one primary source as an OER for their own teaching.
Introduction
Several resources are available on the Internet that provide teachers with tools to identify and select OER for use in instruction. Some of these are: OER Commons , MERLOT , Connexions , FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence , COL Knowledge Finder , and Creative Commons .
Oer commons
OER Commons is one of several Internet resources where you can identify and select OER. With a free membership, you can add tags, ratings, reviews, comments, and favorites to your own portfolio. You can post to discussion, blog, and wiki areas, and see how others are using OER.
OER Commons is created and produced by ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education. It is generously supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and represents dozens of collaborations with OER partners and communities across the globe.
Merlot
MERLOT is a pioneer in the development of searchable and shareable online learning materials for higher education. The site provides collection of peer reviewed learning materials created by registered members. MERLOT provides criteria for peer-review of learning materials submitted.
Take a Tour of the new Merlot . Searches in MERLOT can be sorted by date, reviews ratings, title, author, and material type. A tutorial about how to search for learning materials using MERLOT is available from the SUNY Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program.
Connexions
Connexions has a repository of OER that are searchable by subject, language, popularity, title, keyword, and author. The repository contains 3925 reusable modules woven into 211 collections. The content in Connexions comes in two formats: modules, which are like small "knowledge chunks," and courses, which are collections of modules. The Connexions Creative Commons open license allows for free use and reuse of all its content.
Free
FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence provides links to hundreds of education resources from or supported by the U.S. government.