Open Educational Resources (OER) development, adaptation and use

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.

Table 6. Examples of OER Repositories in different countries