1. Discovering OER:
What are we looking for?
Lorna M. Campbell and R. John Robertson,
CETIS, UKOER10, 23 July 2010
This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.
2. What are you looking for?
Materials on research methods
Assessment Items
Resources to support a specific topic (e.g. employability)
A course on recursion in programming
An image of crystal defects
Something I can use in my textbook (i.e. commercially)
Resources to support a particular learning outcome
Resources at a particular educational level
3. Where might you find stuff?
Google
In a repository or other specific known system
Through a feed
Using an aggregator or search tool e.g.
DiscoverEd,
On iTunesU
In JorumOpen
YouTube, Flickr, Scribd, SlideShare
4. The UKOER approach
Putting useful stuff where people can find it!
How hard can that be...?
5. UKOER guidelines
Put it in JorumOpen
Put it somewhere else
Tag it with ukoer
Include other information like: Title, Author,
Date, URL, File format and size
Use an open license like Creative
Commons
12. A bit of...
Google
In a repository or other specific known system
Through a feed
Using an aggregator or search tool e.g. DiscoverEd,
On iTunesU
In JorumOpen
YouTube, Flickr, Scribd, SlideShare
