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How to Find and Evaluate OER - YouTube

This video has been created to teach faculty how to locate and evaluate Open Educational Resources for use in their classes.

Via Elizabeth E Charles, Miloš Bajčetić, Marco Pozzi
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Free Resources: Saylor Foundation Opens Thousands of Learning Tools to Colleges and Universities ~ Campus Technology

Free Resources: Saylor Foundation Opens Thousands of Learning Tools to Colleges and Universities ~ Campus Technology | Into the Driver's Seat | Scoop.it

by David Nagel

 

"The Saylor Foundation has opened its Media Library to the public, providing thousands of open educational resources, videos, articles, and full-length textbooks.

 

"The Saylor Foundation is dedicated to providing free and open education, with complete courses offered at the K-12 and post-secondary levels. It provides a total of about 300 academic courses, along with workplace skills courses.

 

"Its online Media Library, built on the open source DSpace repository platform, provides a growing list of about 6,000 total resources, including 3,000 open educational resources, 1,300 videos, 124 full-length textbooks, and 2,500 articles. Resources cover the arts, sciences, humanities, social sciences, engineering, business, and test prep. Materials include primary texts (such as Beowulf and Hamlet), references (such as the Catholic Encyclopedia), textbooks (such as The Electronic Introduction to Old English), maps, presentations, audio recordings, assessments, assignments, data sets, and others."

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