1. Locating OER
Jessie Chuang
www.classroom-aid.com
License : CC BY-SA

2. Recognizing Licensed Work
Several places to spot the CC license notification on a website or blog :
the footer, sidebar or there is text that says "license"...

3. Google Advanced Search
How to use Google to search for open content ? - Use advanced search to
locate content (including images and videos) that you can legally reuse.

4. CC Search (http://search.
creativecommons.org/)

5. Internet Archive (archive.org)
"The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a
digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in
digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to
researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."
Just to make it easier, here are the basic searches:
● Public Domain
● Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)
● Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)
● Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)
● Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)
● Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)
● Attribution (by)

6. Learning Registry (LR)
The Learning Registry, an open-source software project,
provides the technical infrastructure and community
practices for sharing information about learning resources
across systems. It will store more than traditional
descriptive data (metadata)--it will also allow sharing of
ratings, comments, downloads, standards alignment,
etc.
It enables the learning resource information created by one
site to be shared with others. The data published to the
Learning Registry network can serve as the basis for
learning resource analytics to help recommend
resources, detect trends in resource usage, and judge
user experience. (so called : paradata)

7. About Paradata
Paradata captures the user activity related to the resource
that helps to elucidate its potential educational utility, from
NSDL Network, it's :
● a complement to metadata, not a replacement
● separate layer of information from metadata
● a means to automate information generation about
resource use by using social networking tools
● a means to create an open source and open access
data space around resources
● emphasizes dissemination rather than description
● accommodates expert and user-generated knowledge
More details about paradata here.

8. Learning Resource Metadata
Initiative (LRMI)
Co-led by the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP)
and Creative Commons (CC), this project builds a new
tagging standard enables the use of rich, education-specific
metadata that not just describes a resource but how it can
be used to support personalized learning.
The ultimate goal of LRMI is the creation of a de facto
standard for online tagging of educational content and
products not only among publishers, but among the search
vendors as well.

9. Online Repositories and
Communities
Users can search curated collections of learning materials,
upload and share their own materials, read and write
reviews, create "playlists" for their purposes, and interact
with other users.
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10. OER Commons

11. OER Commons
● Curating quality OER - since 2007
● The Common Core Alignment and OER Evaluation Tool
is found on all Resource Pages in OER Commons.
● Common Core alignment data shared with the Learning
Registry, OER is tagged to LRMI.

12. MERLOT
(Most in higher education area)

13. Gooru (K-12)
Gooru is a nonprofit organization with a free platform for
students and teachers that offers access to a curated
collection of 50,000 open educational resources for grade 5
through 12 mathematics and science. These resources
range from digital textbooks to individual animations to
games, all tagged to the Common Core State Standards.

14. CK-12
High quality STEM content is curated here. CK-12 makes it
easy for teachers to assemble their own textbooks. Content is
mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common
core. You can start from scratch or build from anything in the
FlexBooks library. (offer PDF, ePub, mobi files)

15. Curriki
Curriki links to a wide variety of resources, including
worksheets, games, and lesson plans. Teachers group
their favorites as online "collections" that they can invite
other teachers to share, discuss, or add to, or peer-review
information for accuracy.

16. Open High School of Utah
The Open High School of Utah is an online charter high
school open to all students across the state of Utah. Part
of our School Mission includes sharing our open education
resources with students, parents and teachers alike across
the world.
Each OER course includes a Moodle 2 backup files that is
available for download, and licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For assessment validity
reasons, all OER courses are course content only and do
not include assignments, forums, quizzes, or exams.

17. The Orange Grove
The Orange Grove repository, is Florida's digital repository
for instructional resources. The repository provides an
environment for educators to search for, use, remix, share,
and contribute educational resources. The repository can
also be integrated with your Learning Management
Systems (e.g., Blackboard, Desire 2 Learn, Canvas) .
Discover, contribute, and import repository resources
directly from your LMS.

18. Jorum
Jorum is a Jisc funded Service in Development in UK
Further and Higher Education, to collect and share learning
and teaching materials, allowing their reuse and
repurposing. This free online repository service forms a key
part of the Jisc Information Environment, and is intended to
become part of the wider landscape of repositories being
developed institutionally, locally, regionally or across
subject areas. Jorum is run by Mimas, based at the
University of Manchester.

19. Wikibooks
Wikibooks is the wikimedia community for creating free
education textbooks that anyone can edit or add to;
Wikijunior is for elementary level.

20. Project Gutenberg
The site has a collection of 42,000 free eBooks. Students
can use Project Gutenberg to expand their reading
opportunities, and teachers can use this to access literary
pieces through the iPad. Project Gutenberg offers a variety
of file formats for users : choose among free ePub books,
free kindle books

21. BetterLesson
BetterLesson is a curriculum-sharing platform containing
more than 300,000 teacher-contributed preK–12 lessons
that users can browse and search using key words and
tools for creating collections. BetterLesson is free to
individual teachers; school districts pay a subscription fee.

22. LearnZillion
LearnZillion is a learning platform that combines video
explanations, assessments, and progress reporting. Each
lesson highlights a Common Core Standard, starting with
math in grades 3 through 9. The site offers more than 2,000
lessons created by teachers using a Web-based
application.

23. Share My Lesson
Share My Lesson is an online portal created by the
American Federation of Teachers that now contains more
than 250,000 digital learning resources reviewed and
prepared by 200 teachers. The lessons include OERs that
can be remixed, reused and reposted.

24. Citing Sources
So after you find something open-licensed that you want to
use, you don't need to contact the creator or ask
permission, but you do need to credit the creator of the
work. This is a requirement of all CC licenses. (It is not
required for public domain works.)
Display the screen name or website address as the credit.
● put the credit right with the work
● or, include a link to the source
● or, include all the credits at the end of the work

25. More Resources
Open Educational Resources，O.E.R
Open Textbooks and Materials for Open Source Education
Open Source Multimedia, Open Source Sound, Open
Source Photo
Free eBooks
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