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Guide to discipline-specific sources of open educational resources.

Oer discipline-specific sources

Lesson components

  • Fast Fact
  • Skill/Objective
  • Success Indicators
  • Introduction
  • Activity
  • Review questions
  • Resources

Fast fact

Learning objects are:

  • Web-based, self-contained, small chunks of learning
  • small enough to be embedded in a learning activity, lesson, unit or course
  • flexible, portable, and adaptable, and can be used in multiple learning environments and across disciplines

Skills/objectives

Learners will be able to:

  • Identify resources for locating OER in their own teaching disciplines.
  • Develop a lesson plan using a discipline-specific OER.

Success indicators

  • Lesson plan developed which uses OER.

Introduction

In addition to simply searching for Public Domain Materials on the Web , a number of OER and learning object repositories of on the internet provide a means to search for learning materials by topic and academic subject matter. The Center for International Education at UW-Milwaukee provides a thorough list of learning object repositories .

Other repositories include:

Other discipline-specific sources of OER include:

Archeology

Art history

Computer science

Economics

French

Health

History

Literature

Math

Philosophy

Physics

Political science

Psychology

Science

Sociology

Spanish

Activity

Experience

  • Find learning materials in your teaching discipline at each of the following repositories. Note whether or not a review or rating of the learning materials is available.

Reflect

Complete one of the following reflection activities:

  • Join MERLOT , identify learning materials in your teaching discipline, then add an assignment to a learning object or review a learning object.
  • Join OER Commons , then make your own posting to the OER Matters Discussions area. Click on OER Matters Localization Forum to answer the following question:

"Participate in discussions about how open education content is localized and how the creation of OER facilitates or impedes making content be context-specific. How is content localized at the individual, school, cultural, and national level, and what are the benefits?"

Apply

  • Identify the most useful sources of OER for use in your teaching discipline.
  • Develop a lesson plan using these discipline-specific sources. Post your lesson plan to MERLOT

Review questions

  • What is a learning object?
  • What are the most useful sources of OER in your teaching discipline?
  • What criteria can be used to assess the usefulness of these OERs?

Resources

Questions & Answers

the diagram of the digestive system
Assiatu Reply
How does twins formed
William Reply
They formed in two ways first when one sperm and one egg are splited by mitosis or two sperm and two eggs join together
Oluwatobi
what is genetics
Josephine Reply
Genetics is the study of heredity
Misack
how does twins formed?
Misack
What is manual
Hassan Reply
discuss biological phenomenon and provide pieces of evidence to show that it was responsible for the formation of eukaryotic organelles
Joseph Reply
what is biology
Yousuf Reply
the study of living organisms and their interactions with one another and their environments
AI-Robot
the study of living organisms and their interactions with one another and their environment.
Wine
discuss the biological phenomenon and provide pieces of evidence to show that it was responsible for the formation of eukaryotic organelles in an essay form
Joseph Reply
what is the blood cells
Shaker Reply
list any five characteristics of the blood cells
Shaker
lack electricity and its more savely than electronic microscope because its naturally by using of light
Abdullahi Reply
advantage of electronic microscope is easily and clearly while disadvantage is dangerous because its electronic. advantage of light microscope is savely and naturally by sun while disadvantage is not easily,means its not sharp and not clear
Abdullahi
cell theory state that every organisms composed of one or more cell,cell is the basic unit of life
Abdullahi
is like gone fail us
DENG
cells is the basic structure and functions of all living things
Ramadan
What is classification
ISCONT Reply
is organisms that are similar into groups called tara
Yamosa
in what situation (s) would be the use of a scanning electron microscope be ideal and why?
Kenna Reply
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) is ideal for situations requiring high-resolution imaging of surfaces. It is commonly used in materials science, biology, and geology to examine the topography and composition of samples at a nanoscale level. SEM is particularly useful for studying fine details,
Hilary
cell is the building block of life.
Condoleezza Reply
what is cell divisoin?
Aron Reply
Diversity of living thing
ISCONT
what is cell division
Aron Reply
Cell division is the process by which a single cell divides into two or more daughter cells. It is a fundamental process in all living organisms and is essential for growth, development, and reproduction. Cell division can occur through either mitosis or meiosis.
AI-Robot
What is life?
Allison Reply
life is defined as any system capable of performing functions such as eating, metabolizing,excreting,breathing,moving,Growing,reproducing,and responding to external stimuli.
Mohamed
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Source:  OpenStax, Introduction to open educational resources. OpenStax CNX. Apr 17, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10413/1.3
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