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And a student describes his use of OER to complement his notes and lectures:
“I just look for any concepts that I need for [my] classes that are a little shady from my notes and lectures. That’s pretty much what I do now.”
OER Commons is in the forefront in providing a teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K-12 through college, from algebra to zoology, open to everyone to use and add to. We’ll be using OER Commons in this course for all the hands-on activities.
As of 2007, OER Commons has nearly seventy institutional partner collections bringing over 11,000 resources to instructors and learners. And it’s growing every day!
The power of OER is the contribution of individual educators and learners, like you. Your contribution makes a difference worldwide in education. The following two stories illustrate how OER has touched the lives of both students and educators.
Students in New York and Barcelona collaborate on a global climate change presentation.
An educator in Hong Kong finds group exercises for her learning sciences class.
Your experience using open and freely shared course-related materials is valuable in the reuse and evolution of the materials. Tell us your story ; how you’ve used these materials and how their use has impacted how you teach or learn.
The following activities have been created to help you get started with OER using OER Commons.
If you don’t have a free OER Commons account yet, complete the short registration form . Your account will be created immediately.
To receive regular updates about the exciting developments in OER Commons, subscribe to the newsletter on the OER Commons homepage. Look for the blue box on the right side of the computer screen called “Sign Up to Receive e-News!” Enter your email address and click the “Sign Up Now” button.
You can also view archives of the newsletter online.
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 some questions to consider in your post:
If you haven’t started using OER, consider these questions:
If you are a Facebook member, add OER Daily to your profile to receive a new-featured item from the OER Commons site every day.
Facebook members can find the OER Daily application at: (External Link)
To add OER Daily to your profile, click the link "GRAB THIS APP!"
The following resources have been selected to provide more information on concepts we covered in this module.
What is OER
About OER Commons
In this module, some OER basics were presented and opportunities were provided to help you get started using OER Commons. In the next module, “ Finding OER Materials You Can Start Using Now ,” will cover finding OER materials you can start using right now in your teaching and learning.
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!
For all information’s independence and extent, it is people, in their communities, organizations, and institutions, who ultimately decide what it all means and why it matters
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) .
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