Open Educational Resources (OER):
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Open, participatory learning ecosystem
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Simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good, and that
technology and the World Wide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity
for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge.
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Teaching and learning resources that reside in the public domain or have been released
under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by
others.
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Web 2.0 – a shift from information consumption to participatory creation
Predominantly K-12 (some with postsecondary)
BetterLesson: Share What Works
http://betterlesson.com/
California Learning Resource Network (CLRN)
http://www.clrn.org/browse/index.cfm/web-info-links
CK-12
http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/
Curriki
http://www.curriki.org/
EDSITEment (National Endowment for the Humanities)
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
eMedia – from the Utah Education Network
http://www.uen.org/emedia/
Georgia Virtual Learning – Shared Content
http://www.gavirtuallearning.org/Resources/SharedLandingPage.aspx
Gooru
http://www.goorulearning.org/#!discover
Hippocampus (MITE)
http://www.hippocampus.org/
International Children’s Digital Library
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Michigan Online Resources for Educators (M.O.R.E.)
http://more.mel.org/
MyOER.org
http://www.myoer.org/index.php
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
NSTA Learning Center: Science Objects
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/science_objects.aspx
OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org/
SAS Curriculum Pathways
http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/portal/#/
Sophia
http://www.sophia.org/
TED-Ed – Lessons Worth Sharing
http://ed.ted.com/
The Orange Grove – Florida’s Digital Repository
http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/home.do
WatchKnowLearn – Free Educational Videos. Organized.
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/
Predominantly Postsecondary (some with K-12)
Flatworld Knowledge
http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
Genes to Cognition (G2C – Cold Spring Harbor)
http://www.g2conline.org/
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
Merlot
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
Open Course Library (Community Colleges, WA)
https://sites.google.com/a/sbctc.edu/opencourselibrary/
Open Courseware Consortium
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
OpenCoursewareProject (OCW-MIT)
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Open Learning Initiative (Carnegie Mellon)
http://oli.cmu.edu/
Open UW
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/openuw/
Open Yale Courses
http://oyc.yale.edu/
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
http://www.plos.org/
Saylor.org
http://www.saylor.org/
Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets (SOFIA – Foothill-DeAnza Comm. College)
http://sofia.fhda.edu/index.htm
Tufts OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.tufts.edu/
UC Berkeley on iTunes (free courses)
http://itunes.berkeley.edu/
UC Irvine OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.uci.edu/Welcome.aspx
Comprehensive (K-20+)
CC Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/
Connexions
http://cnx.org/
Ibiblio – The Public’s Library and Digital Archive (UNC, Chapel Hill)
http://www.ibiblio.org/
Internet Archive
http://archive.org
Google Custom Search (University Learning = OCW+OER = Free)
http://tinyurl.com/OCW-OER
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE)
http://www.montereyinstitute.org/index.html
National Science Digital Library
http://nsdl.org/
Open Collections Program (Harvard)
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/
Open Tapestry
http://www.opentapestry.com/items
PhET (University of Colorado at Boulder)
http://phet.colorado.edu/
Xpert
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/
LiveBinder aggregations:
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OER
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=770695
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OER – ADLC
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=632119
Videos:
 David Wiley TED Talk – Open Education and the Future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb0syrgsH6M
 Password: OER
http://vimeo.com/43437812
 The Voice of the Active Learner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ5Vy9BgSeY&feature=player_embedded
 Wanna Work Together?
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/movingimages/webm/WannaWorkTogether_480p.we
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 Learning to Change – Changing to Learn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahTKdEUAPk
Additional Resources:
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Rubrics for Evaluating Open Education Resource (OER) Objects
http://www.achieve.org/files/AchieveOERRubrics.pdf
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OER Evaluation Training Videos
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FAF3D76A72FA1B9
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OER at the Digital Learning Commons, OSPI
http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/
Note 1: This document can be accessed as a digital file from the File Collection page of John
Hardy’s SWIFT site: http://staff.rentonschools.us/renton/john-hardy/file-collection
Note 2: Most of the above links, along with others, can also be found on the Link Collection page
of John Hardy’s SWIFT site: http://staff.rentonschools.us/renton/john-hardy/link-collection.
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