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What is an OER
Link to OER Foundation FAQ on OERs http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation/FAQs/Open_Education_Resources/

OER Foundation
What is the OER Foundation http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home

What is Wikieducator http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

OER Foundation Strategy http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation/Strategy

Open Education Resources
OER Funding Game Changer http://www.ottawacitizen.com/funding+open+education+materials+game+changer/4363933/story.html

Publishers response http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/publishers-criticize-federal-investment-in-open-educational-resources/31483

Why is OER so Important
UK roundtable - JISC http://www.youtube.com/user/JISCmedia#p/u/13/pkLHyRj33Nw

Article on Authentic Learning for the 21st Century http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3009.pdf

Benefits of OER
Benefits of Open access to your institution JISC UK http://www.youtube.com/user/JISCmedia#p/u/14/QoN-S0-YkZk

How will students in your institution benefit from OER? http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation/FAQs/Open_Education_Resources/

What is Otago Polytechnic Doing
 Internal examples

http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic/OER_Projects

Otago Polytechnic Projects http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic

Otago Polytechnic YouTube Hort http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4McTE_wuiE

Otago Polytechnic School of Hospitality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOoOmu2e6eo&playnext=1&list=PLCBE09EE9C8D69419

External Examples

Learning for content workshops http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C50/Home

Existing Free Textbooks
Please, add unlisted FT projects here


 * California Learning Resource Network
 * Bookboon - Free Books for Students
 * http://www.fhsst.org/ Free High School Science Textbooks]
 * Wolne Podreczniki
 * XXI Texts
 * Free Creative Commons Calculus Text
 * Motion Mountain, physics - free as in beer, not as in speech
 * Online mathematics textbooks
 * Textbooks in mathematics
 * A First Course in Linear Algebra
 * Open-Source Textbooks
 * Textbook Revolution
 * Free Online Textbooks
 * Flat World Knowledge
 * Wikibooks
 * Freeload Press - free as in beer, not as in speech (with registration + survey)
 * Global Text Project
 * Free Business Textbooks
 * Free Non-business Textbooks
 * Economics Textbooks Free and Online
 * cK-12 Flexbooks, collaborative, custom-collated, self publishable educational content (CC-BY-SA)
 * Free High School Textbooks
 * Free Course Materials, textbooks and more

Creating an OER
Turning a Resource into an Open Educational Resource (OER) http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/ps/documents/briefing_papers/oer.pdf

Creating an OER textbook http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one

Examples and links of OERs
OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/

Creative Commons wiki what is OER http://wiki.creativecommons.org/What_is_OER%3F

New Zealand Governments Position http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal

http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one

Educause Conference Session on OER http://www.educause.edu/E2010/Program/SESS135

Link to what is Open Access http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm

Creative Commons http://wiki.creativecommons.org/New_Zealand

Open Access UK Initiative http://open-access.org.uk/

Higher Education Academy UK http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/teachingandlearning/oer

Open Education Projects
Open University (UK) Open Content Initiative http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

Example Essay and Report Writing Skills http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=398972&direct=1

Forth Road Bridge Engineering example http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3763

Introduction to structural integrity http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3258

Maths and Stats examples http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/category.php?id=8

Rice University Connexions OER  http://cnx.org/

University of California example on environmental science http://cnx.org/content/m16730/latest/ How to read a Scientific report with an engineering example http://cnx.org/content/m16039/latest/ Chicken coup measurement exercise http://cnx.org/content/m18763/latest/

Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/

MIT OCW http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm Furniture making MIT http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-296-furniture-making-spring-2005/#description

Otago Polytechnic Projects http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic

Otago Polytechnic YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4McTE_wuiE

Otago Polytechnic School of Hospitality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOoOmu2e6eo&playnext=1&list=PLCBE09EE9C8D69419

YouTube and Creative Commons http://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons

Repositories and commons
National Repository of Online Courses http://courserepository.org/

OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/oer

Image commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Public library of science http://www.plos.org/

Wikipedia http://wikipedia.org

Chemistry portal on Wikepedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Chemistry

Wikieducator http://wikieducator.org Simple maths tutorial on whole numbers http://wikieducator.org/ABE_Math_Tutorials/Whole_numbers

Health Education Assets Library http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators   and learners. The collection includes a variety of learning objects, such as digital images, videos, animations, presentations, lectures, virtual patients, tutorials, cases, and quizzes. Users have access to the HEAL Reviewed Collection, resources that have undergone a formal review process by our editorial board, and Affiliate Collections, resources from partner digital libraries which have been subjected to their own quality assurance processes.

Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ Examples
 * Annals of Innovation and Entrepreneurship http://www.innovationandentrepreneurship.net/index.php/aie
 * Australian Journal of Business and Management http://www.ajbmr.com/

Many Books http://www.manybooks.net/categories/

Open textbook on Fluid Mechanics http://www.potto.org/downloadsFM.php

Open access resources on nursing http://www.nursingplanet.com/resources/

Khan Academy Videos http://www.khanacademy.org/

Open Learning repositories http://wikieducator.org/Exemplary_Collection_of_Open_eLearning_Content_Repositories

Academic Earth http://www.academicearth.org/