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OERs: Open Educational Resources: Finding OER

This guide introduces faculty to the ideas, purposes, resources and locations for using OERs for required texts, readings, and other course materials.

Evaluating Resources

From Austin Community College, provides a checklist and suggestions for evaluating OER.

Outline key features of researched resources that could be used in the BC OER assessment rubrics.

Course Material OER (slides, lessons, books, syllabi, etc.)

Link to OER Commons

OER Commons is a large repository for finding educational materials ranging from lecture slides to images. Click the image above to be taken to this site. 

Link to Merlot II

Merlot is another large repository with user-contributed educational materials ranging from lecture slides to images. Click the image above to be taken to this site. An account is required but all material is free. 

Link to OpenLearn
Repository for the Open University in the United Kingdom.

Click the image above to explore this repository from the UK.