Authors: A.Texeira, L.Morgado, Universidade Aberta, Portugal; A.A.Fuente, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Having successfully completed all training material, you will be able to:
- understand the Open Educational Resources and Open education Practices
- describe/identify specific characteristics of OER
- describe the evolution of the OER movement
- find, select, assess an OER
- use an OER in a VM context
- produce/reuse an OER for a VM context
Unit 2. Finding and Selecting Open Educational Resource (OER) for a virtual mobility course
2.1 Find and Select an OER: Searching Repositories
David Wiley (2010) address a key issue about openness and sharing learning: “If open education practionners (both individuals and institutions) cannot move from large-scale sharing to large-scale adopting, the field (OERs) is dead.” http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1698
There are an abundance of OERs that could be used are deposited and it is possible to discover from whole courses to smaller learning objects a lot of valuable, reusable educational content for a variety of subjects.
There are different types of Repositories in the world that store Open Content and hosts collections of OERs. Some of them are good examples of Open Educational Resources Repositories.
All of the resources are free and can be used as they are or adapted, remixed, that is: they can be used or re-used.
A repository supports mechanisms to import, export, identify, store and retrieve digital assets. Putting digital content into a repository enables staff and institutions to manage and preserve it, and therefore derive maximum value from it.
Educational repositories mainly contain elearning objects, diferent types of teaching materials or research data.
There are different types of repositories in the world. We selected some of them as examples of Open Educational Resources Repositories. All of the resources are free and can be used as they are or adapted, remixed, that is: they can be used or re-used.
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Repository Name |
Link |
Country |
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Ariadne |
European Union |
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Federica |
Italy |
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Gold |
http://gold.indire.it/gold2/ (the link no exists) |
Italy |
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E-MYKOMASIS |
http://www.emokymasis.com/tinklarascarontis/scientix-projektas-atvirieji-vietimo-itekliai-gamtos-moksl-ir-matematikos-mokymuisi (the link no exists) |
Lithuania |
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NDMA (National Association of Distance Education) |
http://www.ndma.lt/lt/turinys/atvir%C5%B3j%C5%B3-%C5%A1vietimo-i%C5%A1tekli%C5%B3-kaupyklos |
Lithuania |
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R21 |
http://r21.ccems.pt/ (the link no exists) |
Portugal |
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RODA |
http://roda.culturaextremadura.com/ (the link no exists) |
Spain |
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PROCOMON |
http://procomun.educalab.es/comunidad/procomun (the link no exists) |
Spain |
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Lab Space |
United Kingdom |
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Merlot |
United States |
|
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National Learning Network |
http://www.nln.ac.uk/ (the link no exists) |
United Kingdom |
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OER Commons |
United States |
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OER Online Archive |
Undefined |
Table 6. Examples of OER Repositories in different countries