OER Resources

Community of scholars offering access to their originally created learning materials, creating their own personal collection of materials from the database, serving as peer reviewers of submitted materials and working together to improve the culture of sharing good materials for learning and teaching.

Tony Hirst describing his thoughts on building a course for the British Open University and relying on Wordpress (due to its ability to handle RSS feeds so robustly) blogs to build a cacophony of blog entries by his students to craft pathways for the creation of new knowledge.

Build your own Creative Commons license via a simple quiz outlining your rights as the creator and describing the ways that your materials can be used (and reused) by others.

Community of educators commited to finding, sharing and communicating about open educational resources of high quality.

International community of educators and researchers sharing learning materials of high quality

Peer-based online university - relatively free (small fees for registration and exit exams). Small groups of peers work with scholars in 10 week sessions with explicit expectations for students to work together as they learn.

Courses and online degrees compiled from a wide variety of universities where videotaped lectures are freely available.

Cornell University's website on academic integrity, including a nice section on student rights for their own content created for class work.

Collection of free textbooks created for the Florida schools and universities.

A 7th grade science student shows us her personal learning environment (PLN) created by Symbaloo tumblelog- including how she uses a variety of platforms in searching out experts and talking with them (e.g., Skype and Blogster) or practicing how to write a lab report (e.g., Google Docs).

Overview of Diigo as bookmark/notetaking app and community connections through sharing bookmarks publically and recommending ideas/knowledge to others.

Shows how to avoid bots harvesting email addresses in an open courseware project by encrypting them with CryptX

How-to for faculty to develop their own open courseware strategy, including benefits (global, institutional, personal/professional).