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Many resources are available to help you achieve your OER goals!

Resources for OER

Many resources have been created to support the development of Open Educational Resources:

WikiEducator: Platform for the development and hosting of OERs, and also a source of tutorials and other support infrastructure on OER development and IP licensing: http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

The Creative Commons portal provides free licenses and support for OERs: http://creativecommons.org

The Wikimedia Commons provides access to more than 18 million CC-licensed graphics and video files: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

For recent perspective visit the website of the 2012 Paris Declaration, in which educators and policy makers call on all governments to adopt OER’s: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/

‘Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Higher Education’ (page 9 onwards) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002136/213605e.pdf