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Faculty Guide for Evaluating Open Education Resources

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Faculty Guide for Evaluating Open Education Resources

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https://open.bccampus.ca/files/2014/07/Faculty-Guide-22-Apr-15.pdf

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ALBERTA:

Red Deer Polytechnic's site includes FAQ

https://guides.rdpolytech.ca/friendly.php?s=oer

University of Alberta OER starter kit

https://openeducationalberta.ca/oerstarterkit/

OER at SAIT including their policy and procedures

https://libguides.sait.ca/OER

BRITISH COLUMBIA:

OER at UBC

https://open.bccampus.ca/

Open UBC is a curated collection of resources for faculty and students.

https://open.ubc.ca/

SASKATCHEWAN

Open Educational Resources - University of Regina

https://ctl.uregina.ca/resource/open-educational-resources

University of Saskatchewan

https://www.saskoer.ca/university-of-saskatchewan/

MANITOBA

University of Manitoba

https://umanitoba.ca/libraries/help-and-services/instruction-support/open-educational-resources

ONTARIO

Developing innovation and collaboration in Ontario’s postsecondary institutions.

https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/

McMaster University

https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/mcmasteroerdiscipline/

Ontario Tech University

https://learninginnovation.ontariotechu.ca/oer/index.php

University of Toronto

https://ocw.utoronto.ca/about/

University of Waterloo

https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/oer-canada

Ryerson University

https://learn.library.ryerson.ca/oer

University of Ottawa

https://scholarlycommunication.uottawa.ca/open-educational-resources

Algonquin College

https://algonquincollege.libguides.com/oer/home

QUEBEC

McGill University

https://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/c.php?g=627640&p=4378583

ATLANTIC PROVINCES

https://atlanticoer-relatlantique.ca/

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B.C. Open Textbook Collection continuingly adding open textbooks on a variety of subjects. These textbooks are reviewed by B.C. faculty.

https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

https://www.doabooks.org/

NOBA modules allow you to adapt, modify or use as is textbooks. Instructor manuals, PowerPoint presentations and test banks are available for many modules.

https://nobaproject.com/

Milne Library Publishing (Formally known as SUNY Textbooks) at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.

https://milneopentextbooks.org/

The Open Textbook Library currently has 1006 open textbooks that can be freely used and adapted. Supported by the Open Education Network (https://open.umn.edu/oen).

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

OpenStax textbooks are peer-reviewed, openly licensed, 100% free, and low-cost in print.

https://openstax.org/subjects

Free the Textbooks provide open-source textbooks that are written and reviewed by professors and are published under an open license.  Online versions of the textbooks are free to view and download, and print copies are available for a much cheaper price than the current textbooks college students buy. Open licenses allow for intellectual property to be viewed and modified by individuals of the general public.

https://freethetextbooks.org

Intchopen provides peer-reviewed open access books.

https://www.intechopen.com/books

The Pressbooks Directory indexes public books created on Pressbooks EDU networks and allows users to search and access open resources.

https://pressbooks.directory/

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60 thousand free e-books.

https://www.gutenberg.org/

Librivox provides public audio domain books.

https://librivox.org/

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iBiology’s mission is to convey, in the form of open-access free videos, the excitement of modern biology and the process by which scientific discoveries are made.

https://www.ibiology.org/

The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts. Unless otherwise noted, all materials are shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license.

https://opencourselibrary.org/

Open Learning Initiative (OLI) allows you to create and /or modify courses in the collection.

https://oli.cmu.edu/

Open Yale provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses in the humanities, social sciences, and biological & physical sciences.

https://oyc.yale.edu/

MIT OpenCourseWare’s goal is to create an open education ecosystem by sharing OER’s from MIT and prompting global collaboration. Discover courses, materials & teaching resources.

https://ocw.mit.edu/

Saylor Academy is a nonprofit initiative working since 2008 to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn. We offer nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels, each built by subject matter experts. Excluding course final exams, content authored by Saylor Academy is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Third-party materials are the copyright of their respective owners and shared under various licenses. https://www.saylor.org/open/licensing-information/

https://www.saylor.org/

UCI offers nearly 50 massive open, online courses at Coursera in a variety of formats: on-demand (anytime) or cohort-based. UCI was an early adopter of MOOCs and a number of these offerings are based on open educational resources also available on this site.

https://open.uci.edu/

Open Learn (Open University) thousands of free courses, interactives, videos, and more.

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/

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·OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

https://www.oercommons.org/

·Oasis is the Commonwealth of Learning’s online institutional repository for learning resources and publications. The publications found here are licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 and can be freely downloaded for reuse and adaptation with attribution to COL (exceptions are noted).

http://oasis.col.org/

·The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers. (Taken from website)

https://www.merlot.org

·Creative Common licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law.

https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/

·Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

https://archive.org/

·Free to learn guide/index of OER resources

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Free_to_Learn_Guide/Index_of_OER_Resources

· OER Handbook for Educators

https://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one/Find

· Meta-Wiki, the global community site for the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects and related projects, from coordination and documentation to planning and analysis.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

·324 Free Tools for Teachers separated into 18 educational technology categories.

https://elearningindustry.com/321-free-tools-for-teachers-free-educational-technology

·Resource site collection of all EDUCAUSE resources related to open educational resources (OER) in higher education.

https://library.educause.edu/topics/teaching-and-learning/open-educational-resources-oer

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Openverse is an extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use.

https://openverse.org/?referrer=creativecommons.org

WordPress is a tool by the makers of CC licenses that allows you to discover and use openly licensed and public domain works.

https://wordpress.com/support/finding-free-images-and-other-media/openverse/

Flickr allows you to search for CC-licensed images on Flickr by using the “Any License” drop down menu.

https://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/

Flickr contains public domain photography collections supplied by libraries and museums from around the world.

https://www.flickr.com/commons

Foodies Feed compiles photos from food photographers from all around the world to share their photos under the Creative Commons Zero (CCO) license.

https://www.foodiesfeed.com/

Gratisography bills itself as the world’s quirkiest collection of high-resolution free stock images.

https://gratisography.com/

The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. All images are licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND license.

https://genderphotos.vice.com/

Imcreator is a  curated collection of free web design resources for commercial use.

https://www.imcreator.com/

Isorepublic is an independent website that provides curated collections of the best high-resolution CCO photos and videos.

https://isorepublic.com/

Noun Project launched in 2011 and includes nearly 3 million community-contributed icons.

https://thenounproject.com/

Open Clip Art Library is an online media collection of more than 160 000 vectorial graphics, entirely in the public domain.

https://openclipart.org/

Picjumbo provides free stock photos for personal and commercial use. Search by categories including animals, food, technology, and more.

https://picjumbo.com/

Picography is a source for high-resolution, free phots.

https://picography.co/

Pixabay includes copyright-free images and videos released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist.

https://pixabay.com/

The Smithsonian has made available nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from their collections with more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums and research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

Start-Up Stock Photos is a free start-up, office, and tech stock pictures.

https://startupstockphotos.com/

Unsplash provides freely usable images of high resolution. (Taken from website)

https://unsplash.com/

Wikimedia Commons is a collection of over 80 million freely usable media files. (Taken from website)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Searching Techniques for Open Educational Resources

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Searching Techniques for Open Educational Resources

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·Libguides

https://irsc.libguides.com/c.php?g=642900&p=4564551

·Cccoer

https://www.cccoer.org/using-oer/find-oer/

·Weebly

https://col-oer.weebly.com/module-4---the-oer-landscape---how-to-find-oer.html

·Oeglobal

https://www.oeglobal.org/ &  https://www.oeglobal.org/oe-resource/

·Scalar is a free, open-source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online.

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/guide2/index

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Abacus is a collection of publicly available data including censuses and surveys.

https://abacus.library.ubc.ca/dataverse/open

ArcGIS is an Open GIS data from Esri

https://hub.arcgis.com/search

Portage,  Compute Canada (CC), and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) are collaborating to provide a scalable federated platform for digital research data management (RDM) and discovery.

https://www.frdr-dfdr.ca/repo/

GBIF is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world’s governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

https://www.gbif.org/

NASA’s clearinghouse site for open data is provided to the public. Tens of thousands of databases are available. Some datasets are harvested from other NASA data archives and other datasets only exist here.

https://data.nasa.gov/browse

The open data network is a global search engine that allows you to search across tens of thousands of datasets from hundreds of open data catalogs.

https://www.opendatanetwork.com/

Open Canada provides data from the Government of Canada

https://open.canada.ca/en/open-data

OpenICPST provides open data from the inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. All open ICPSR Data is governed by the Attribution 4.0 Creative Commons License.

https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/

OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafes, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Dataverse is a publicly accessible data repository platform, open to affiliated researchers to deposit and share research data openly with anyone in the world.

https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/

Developer Twitter is a public Twitter data (developer platform)

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs

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BigSoundBank.com is a library of royalty-free sounds, free of charge, and public domain sounds.

https://bigsoundbank.com/

Free music archive visitors are able to browse, listen and download music for free

https://freemusicarchive.org/

Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds.

https://freesound.org/

Free PD offers music that is available for commercial use and has a Creative Commons 0 license

https://freepd.com/

Musopen provides recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. (Taken from website)

https://musopen.org/

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Directory of open access journals

https://doaj.org/

An open database of 31,674 free scholarly articles

https://unpaywall.org/

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Phet was founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. (Taken from website)

https://phet.colorado.edu/

Games & Activities for the ESL/EFL Classroom

https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=290996

CUNY Games Network

https://games.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Dobble Debate: A game promoting discussion of difference and disabilities

https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/item-details/#/c2a14f53-530e-4be2-bd06-2285b47ef40d?k=games&itemTypes=6&itemTypes=12&sortCol=2&increasePopularSearch=true

The Art of Serious Game Design: A Hands-On Workshop for Developing Educational Games – Facilitator guide

https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/item-details/#/dc12d69b-c730-49b0-9e83-729193b49f44?k=games&itemTypes=6&itemTypes=12&sortCol=2&increasePopularSearch=true

Game Jam: "The documents used from our sessions have been openly licensed and are available to be used to create your own Jam. The beauty of an OER is that you can adapt and modify the format and purpose of our documents to create a Jam to suit your own needs.

Lead a group through the creating, licensing, and sharing of a board game as an Open Educational Resource (OER) with this hands-on workshop in multiple formats, created by Stephanie (Charlie) Farley and Gavin Willshaw of Information Services."

https://open.ed.ac.uk/run-your-own-board-game-jam/

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RefSeek's guide to the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos. With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free and most without registration.

https://www.refseek.com/directory/educational_videos.html

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https://www.youtube.com/user/AsapSCIENCE/featured

https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse

https://www.youtube.com/user/NOVAonline

https://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceChannel

https://www.youtube.com/user/smithsonianchannel

https://www.youtube.com/education