Friday, April 06, 2007
Open Educational Resources: OER
You may have read that MIT has made all their courses available online .. and so have many other institutions .. and they are searchable at www.oercommons.org. ISKME (The Institute for Study of Knowledge Management in Education) has created this new learning portal with more than 8,000 digital classroom materials from top university faculty available free of charge. But it's not just a higher ed resource, K-12 materials are available, too. They have aggregated a lot of course here and there are also some other searching resources for technology resources and news that you can use. I'm sure they will continue to expand and look for additional contributors.
Open Education Resources, or OER, offer new ways to engage with free-to-use learning content.Users can create their own portfolios of materials. " With a free membership, you can add tags, ratings, reviews, comments and favorites to your own portfolio. You can also post to discussion, blog and wiki areas and see how others are using OER."
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