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\"\"Finding OERs, a great way to NOT \u201cre-invent the wheel\u201d!<\/h1>\r\nThe recognition, creation and use of Open Educational Resources has grown around the world over the last number of years. What began as a small, idealistic endeavour to share content among educators has grown to be an initiative supported globally and by all levels of government. Educators and students can browse curated \u201crepositories\u201d of re-usable digital content \u2013 from complete textbooks, to lessons, interactive quizzes and other assessments. They are \"free\" for you to adopt and use in your teaching. Often, depending on the license, these open resources can also be adapted, meaning if they don't quite match your teaching outcomes, you are permitted to make changes.. The range of open resources spans every discipline. You might find a resource someone else has already created work and make it a better fit for your course and then share it back to the repository! Pretty sweet.\r\n\r\nBelow are a few collections to get you started. There are many more.\r\n\r\nFor your quest you need to find an open education resource that you could use and provide a citation. Here\u2019s a link to a webpage at Trent University that explains how to cite OERs that are images<\/a>. If your OER is textual use the style guide for your discipline, i.e. APA<\/a> or MLA<\/a>.\r\n\r\nBC Open Collection<\/a>\r\n\r\nHosted by BCcampus, this site is a great resource to \u201cfind free, open, and customizable materials by course or subject.\u201d\r\n\r\neCampusOntario Open Library<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe eCampusOntario Open Library provides educators and learners with access to more than 1,900 free and openly-licensed educational resources. The library was launched in 2017 in partnership with BCcampus.<\/em>\r\n\r\nOER Commons Curated Collections<\/a>\r\n\r\nISKME (Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education) created a global OER Commons, a comprehensive, openly accessible digital library for educators at all levels to identify high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER) and collaborate around their use, evaluation, and improvement to address the needs of their classrooms.<\/em>\r\n\r\nOpen Stax<\/a>\r\n\r\nOpenStax is the world\u2019s largest publisher of open education resources (OER) and a provider of integrated learning technologies and education research for high school and college. Open Stax is a global nonprofit at Rice University.\r\n\r\n ","rendered":"

\"\"Finding OERs, a great way to NOT \u201cre-invent the wheel\u201d!<\/h1>\n

The recognition, creation and use of Open Educational Resources has grown around the world over the last number of years. What began as a small, idealistic endeavour to share content among educators has grown to be an initiative supported globally and by all levels of government. Educators and students can browse curated \u201crepositories\u201d of re-usable digital content \u2013 from complete textbooks, to lessons, interactive quizzes and other assessments. They are “free” for you to adopt and use in your teaching. Often, depending on the license, these open resources can also be adapted, meaning if they don’t quite match your teaching outcomes, you are permitted to make changes.. The range of open resources spans every discipline. You might find a resource someone else has already created work and make it a better fit for your course and then share it back to the repository! Pretty sweet.<\/p>\n

Below are a few collections to get you started. There are many more.<\/p>\n

For your quest you need to find an open education resource that you could use and provide a citation. Here\u2019s a link to a webpage at Trent University that explains how to cite OERs that are images<\/a>. If your OER is textual use the style guide for your discipline, i.e. APA<\/a> or MLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BC Open Collection<\/a><\/p>\n

Hosted by BCcampus, this site is a great resource to \u201cfind free, open, and customizable materials by course or subject.\u201d<\/p>\n

eCampusOntario Open Library<\/a><\/p>\n

The eCampusOntario Open Library provides educators and learners with access to more than 1,900 free and openly-licensed educational resources. The library was launched in 2017 in partnership with BCcampus.<\/em><\/p>\n

OER Commons Curated Collections<\/a><\/p>\n

ISKME (Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education) created a global OER Commons, a comprehensive, openly accessible digital library for educators at all levels to identify high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER) and collaborate around their use, evaluation, and improvement to address the needs of their classrooms.<\/em><\/p>\n

Open Stax<\/a><\/p>\n

OpenStax is the world\u2019s largest publisher of open education resources (OER) and a provider of integrated learning technologies and education research for high school and college. Open Stax is a global nonprofit at Rice University.<\/p>\n

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