Name: Hassan O.

Faja Course: MAEd 1-English

I. Introduction of the Assigned Topic:

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are learning and teaching materials that
are freely available online for anyone to use. OERs can consist of full courses,
course materials, modules, textbooks, videos, tests, software and any other tools,
materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge. Normally, small
units of OER (e.g. animations, videos, podcasts, etc) are most attractive to
educators from both the re-use and production angles, as they are easier to
embed into existing classroom or online learning activities. Many teachers embed
OER material into teaching sessions (e.g. classroom sessions, practical classes,
workshops, seminars) and/or provide links to OERs via the VLE to enhance self-
directed learning opportunities.

Meanwhile, OER has its producers locally and internationally known for its best
features online classes which are free and accessible anytime and anywhere.
These producers hit different programs in online environment for the welfare of
the professionals and learners creatively and to ease the burden of a certain
circumstances.

II. Detailed Content on the Assigned Topic:

OER by Subject

 Discipline-Specific OER from Virginia Tech

On these pages you will find openly licensed textbooks along with
supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.

 Subject Resources from University of New Hampshire

A collection of resources divided into humanities, social science, and STEM

categories.

 WeBWorK

WeBWorK is an open-source online homework system for math and science

courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a
National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems.
Problems in the NPL target most lower division undergraduate math courses
and some advanced courses. Supported courses include college algebra,
discrete mathematics, probability and statistics, single and multivariable
calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and complex analysis.
COMPLETE COURSES

 Academic Earth

Find lectures and videos from some of the most respected instructors in the world.

 Bridge to Success

Materials, mostly study skills, to support students transitioning to college.

 Coursera

Large library of MOOCs, some of which have material freely licensed for re-use.

MULTIMEDIA

 TED

Inspiring thinkers on a range of subjects present big ideas and lectures on a regular
basis- completely CC licensed.

 Khan Academy

Hundreds of short educational videos covering many subjects; especially strong

collections in science and math.

 Wikimedia Commons

The thinkers behind Wikipedia bring you images, video and music all openly licensed
or in the public domain.

IMAGES & ARTWORK

 Creative Commons Search

Creative Commons has created this really useful search engine that lets you
search for resources that are CC licensed. The image search is the most
useful.

 Guide to the Public Domain

 We've put together this page on the Public Domain and how to find images
and artwork that are in the Public Domain. Included are several resources for
searching and finding images that are in the Public Domain.

 Smithsonian Open Access

You can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images.
With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D
and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian collections.

OPEN ACCESS BOOKS

 Open Textbook Library

Hundreds of complete, open college-level textbooks collected by the University of

Minnesota.

 WikiBooks

A project of the Wikimedia Foundation, this collection of group written textbooks in a

variety of sources follows rules similar to Wikipedia.

 FreeBooks4Doctors

Free medical textbooks.

LARGE REPOSITORIES

 Connexions

Large repository of individual teachers' content, some courses and lots of modular
writings about a variety of topics.

 Curriki

Open educational materials for K-12.

 OpenCulture

This blog formatted repository seeks to bring together free resources on culture and
education. The list of movies here is impressive.

REFERENCES

: https://pitt.libguides.com/openeducation