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Definition:

Open Educational Resources (OER) - digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research - Wikipedia

This page links to information, directories, discussion etc about OER and its use (including Open Courseware), rather than OER itself.

• Academic Commons (US) - community of

This page links to information, directories, discussion etc about OER and its use (including Open Courseware), rather than OER itself.

• RECAP Limited (UK), Podcast Directory for Educators, Schools and Colleges - podcasts from over 450 selected podcast channels for educational use: About podcasting, Professional items, College podcasts, Subject podcasts, Video channels, Educator's tips, e-Learning, Podcast resources, weblog, Submit a podcast, wiki

• Seneca College (CA), Learning Objects Portal - collaborative effort between

This table provides a quick search of the Open Courseware Directory - go to the square corresponding to the intersection of a main subject row with the required 'media type' column - Click on 'ALL' inside a square to find items at all academic levels; otherwise click on:

1. for 'introductory' (university first year undergraduate level - or equivalent)

2. for 'intermediate' (university undergraduate level but excluding first year - or equivalent)
3. for 'advanced' (university graduate level - or equivalent)

Example: To find OCW items containing exam material (sample exams, old papers etc) in introductory Social Sciences go to the bottom right hand corner and click on '1'.

Clicking on one of the Main Subject Areas in the left column will give all OCW items for that subject area.

This provides a quick way of locating the part of the Open Courseware Directory that covers a particular topic - it does not give an exclusive list of OCW items on that topic. Please recommend any

This page and the next below lists sites that offer OCW in general, typically covering a range of academic subject areas.

Individual items of OCW from these sites might not have been included under subject headings of the Open Courseware Directory (see Open Courseware Directory menus on left). If you find OCW items you would like to recommend please post or, better still, register and create the OCW item yourself.

The final page links to information about Open Educational Resources (OER) in general.

Prime Sites

• MIT OpenCourseWare (US) - free & open educational resource (OER) for

• Annenberg Media, Learner.org - multimedia resources for teachers to help them improve their own teaching practice and understanding of their subject, makes use of telecommunications technologies, the Internet, including broadband video streaming, and satellite television broadcasting as well as hard copy media

• Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER)(US) - portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use

• The Assayer, Book Reviews and Discussion for the Free Information Renaissance - catalog of free books, collects user-submitted reviews: add or review a book, browse by (subject, author, title, reviewer)

• Best Online Documentaries - links to