Finding OERs

Find OER | Open Professionals Education Network CC licensed (BY) Flickr photo shared by David Amsler modified by Paul Stacey Reusing existing Open Educational Resources (OER) can save significant time and effort. The OPEN partners recommend TAACCCT grantees invest up-front time finding OER to reuse rather than starting development of new educational resources right away. A significant benefit of OER is that they provide source material to build your development efforts around. OER come in a wide variety of types. The page below will help you find openly licensed media elements to use within your courses. OER also exist as distinctly education content such as full courses, workshops, textbooks, tests and assessments. The page below will help you find openly licensed education content you can use in whole or in part. It is unlikely that you will find OER that perfectly fit your needs. Open Educational Resources are distributed across the Internet. 1. 1.1 Google Many people start out looking for OER using Google. Google Advanced Search

Look no Further for OER Search Engines Searching for Open Educational Resources, but not sure where to start looking? Use these OER search engines to find educational content in any field. 10 Great OER Search Engines ♦ Curriki Advanced Search: Search Curriki’s vast education resource repository. Advanced search allows you to specify subject, topic, grade level, media type and more! ♦ OpenCourseWare Finder collects a list of courses from some of the well-known open courseware sites, and organizes them into categories. ♦ Learning Objects can be used for quick instruction and/or incorporation into an online education curriculum. ♦ Google University Learning searches a collection of OER and OCW sites. ♦ OER Dynamic Search Engine directs your search to content from a host of top OER repositories. ♦ Federal Resources for Educational Excellence allows you to search learning resources from government agencies. ♦ Knowledge Hub from TEMOA is a public, multilingual hub that allows the user to discover OERs by subject area or media type.

Search Engines A number of specialized search engines and services have been set up to make finding OER easier. If your aim is to find resources to combine and mix with your own and with each other, it is important to understand the licensing implications. See Licensing and specifically Which License Should I Choose? ADRIANE Search and Indexation Tool[1]: Search among several prominent OER repositories including MERLOT[2], OER Commons[3] and ADRIANE[4]. Effective search with search engines If you are already familiar with different search engines and BOOLEAN search you can skip this section. For a normal search simply enter one or more keywords or a phrase into the search box of your favorite search engine and click on the "search" button for the results. Boolean search is a type of search that uses words to establish the relationship between search terms. AND: Use the AND operator to retrieve a set in which each citation contains all the search terms. apple AND fruit NOT macintosh NOT mac NOT computer

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