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4 Creating your OER

4.1 Sources of material

You will probably be making an OER in an area in which you have some expertise so you are likely to already have lesson plans and resources that you use in your face-to-face work that will be invaluable to others.

As well as your own materials, you might like to look at a range of other OER repositories in addition to OpenLearn.

Activity 4: What is available already for me to use?

You should allow 1 hour(s), 0 minute(s).

Look at the following OER repositories where there are often not whole units but rather useful ‘bits and pieces’ that could be mixed (but also be careful to look at the licence used in each case). This activity should take about an hour to scan what is available – and then become a very useful reference list.

Music

http://ccmixter.org/

Multi-media resources across a range of topics

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Images

http://www.flickr.com/

A wiki of general repositories hosted by UNESCO

http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Jorum – a sharing site for Higher Education in the UK

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

OER Commons

This site has a range of open resources

http://www.oercommons.org/

Science

http://www.wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator/Science_repositories

Humanities

http://www.wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator/humanities_repositories

As well as the units in the LearningSpace, OpenLearn has a large selection of older Open University materials in the LabSpace which could help in the construction of your OER. Here you could also try out uploading material from OpenLearn that you have translated or localised.

Let us now explore the different types of content resources.

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4 Creating your OER

4.1 Sources of material

You will probably be making an OER in an area in which you have some expertise so you are likely to already have lesson plans and resources that you use in your face-to-face work that will be invaluable to others.

As well as your own materials, you might like to look at a range of other OER repositories in addition to OpenLearn.

Activity 4: What is available already for me to use?

You should allow 1 hour(s), 0 minute(s).

Look at the following OER repositories where there are often not whole units but rather useful ‘bits and pieces’ that could be mixed (but also be careful to look at the licence used in each case). This activity should take about an hour to scan what is available – and then become a very useful reference list.

Music

http://ccmixter.org/

Multi-media resources across a range of topics

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Images

http://www.flickr.com/

A wiki of general repositories hosted by UNESCO

http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Jorum – a sharing site for Higher Education in the UK

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

OER Commons

This site has a range of open resources

http://www.oercommons.org/

Science

http://www.wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator/Science_repositories

Humanities

http://www.wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator/humanities_repositories

As well as the units in the LearningSpace, OpenLearn has a large selection of older Open University materials in the LabSpace which could help in the construction of your OER. Here you could also try out uploading material from OpenLearn that you have translated or localised.

Let us now explore the different types of content resources.

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