7.7 USEFUL OER REPOSITORIES

[1] OER Commons & Open Education (www.oercommons.org)-

The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the human right to access high-quality education. This shift in educational practice is not just about cost savings and easy access to openly licensed content, it's about participation and co-creation. Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning content through engaging educators in new participatory processes and effective technologies for engaging with learning.

2] Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER, www.cccoer.org)-

CCCOER is a growing consortium of community and technical colleges committed to expanding access to education and increasing student success by adopting open educational policy, practices, and resources. We provide community and resources to learn about the evolving practice of open education.

[3] OER Metafinder (https://oer.deepwebaccess.com/oer/desktop/en/search.html)-

A single search engine of dozens of open access and open educational databases all in one. A Google for OER.

[4] MERLOT (https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm)-

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners, and researchers.

[5] Open Course Library (http://opencourselibrary.org)-

Open Course Library is a collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs, making it easy to access, browse, and download.

[6] Open Research Library (https://openresearchlibrary.org/home)-

The Open Research Library includes all Open Access scholarly book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 20,000 Open Access books.

[7] Open Knowledge Repository (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org)-

The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is the World Bank’s official open-access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

[8] National Science Digital Library (https://nsdl.oercommons.org)-

National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. NSDL collection links to web-based educational resources held on other sites by their providers.

[9] Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS, https://oasis.geneseo.edu/index.php)-

The OASIS is a search tool developed by SUNY Geneseo, in consultation with Alexis Clifton, SUNY OER Services Executive Director, that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 73 different sources and contains 171,998 records.

[10] Live Lingua (www.livelingua.com)-

A collection of U.S. Government created public domain language eBooks and a/v resources for almost every language.

[11] Skills Commons (https://www.skillscommons.org)-

A repository of OER supported by the U.S. Department of Labor's Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program that lets you browse by material type, discipline, credential type, and more.

[12] Teaching Commons (https://teachingcommons.us)-

A showcase of high-quality open educational resources from leading universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions and hosted by bepress, the Teaching Commons includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more.

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