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Free Online Library: One of the largest online libraries in the world -- Millions of news, trade publications, newspapers, magazine, journal and reference documents on business, communications, entertainment, health, law, government, politics, science and technology from leading publications are available on the Free Online Library.
The Free Library is an invaluable research tool and the fastest, easiest way to locate useful information on virtually any topic. Explore the site through a keyword search, or simply browse the enormous collection of literary classics and up-to-date periodicals to find exactly what you need.
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Training Educators to Design and Develop ODL Materials (VUSSC course)
The course contents: - About this Facilitator's Guide - Workshop overview - Getting around this Facilitator's Guide - Before the workshop Modules: Module 1: Principles of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Module 2: Instructional Design Models Module 3: Needs Analysis Module 4: Developing a Learner Profile Module 5: Methods of Delivery (including learner support) Module 6: Developing Content for Open and Distance Learning Module 7: Assessment in ODL Module 8: Developing a Student Guide Module 9: Relevant Technologies Module 10: Course Evaluation Module 11: Other Key Issues Associated with ODL Material Development The complete course is available for download
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UNESCO has launched its Open Access Repository (OAR) making more than 300 on-line books, reports, and articles freely available. The OAR will operate under a new open licensing system developed by the Creative Commons organization specifically for intergovernmental agencies. “The new licensing tool, developed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the UN family, makes a wealth of knowledge available to people all over the world; knowledge that can be used and reused,” said Ian Denison, Chief of UNESCO’s Publishing and Branding Section.
Click here to access http://en.unesco.org/open-access/search_unesdoc
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Greg Ferrie, Director of Information Technology for a school district in British Columbia, discusses how to better prepare students for a rapidly changing world by teaching with open source.
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An educator's guide to open educational resources (OER), including online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, sources for lesson plans and activities, and open textbooks.
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Creative Commons offers a list of resources to teach kids about copyright; they are open educational resources (OER), licensed under a CC license that enables free and legal reuse, redistribution and remix.
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The European Commission's Opening up Education initiative in a nutshell
The main goal of this initiative is to stimulate ways of learning and teaching through ICT and digital content, mainly through the development and availability of OER. Amongst its actions, the most important one is to change the role of digital technologies at school. All the actions within the initiative are put in place with the hope that they help attain the ultimate objective, namely to boost competitiveness and growth at the European level.
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If your students are using images, video, or music in the final products that they are producing for your class, then it is INCREDIBLY important that you introduce them to the Creative Commons -- an organization that is helping to redefine copyright laws. With a self-described goal to "save the world from failed sharing," the Creative Commons organization has developed a set of licenses that content creators can use when sharing the work. While every Creative Commons license requires that attribution to be given to the original owner of a piece of content, every license also details the ways that content can be used by others WITHOUT having to ask for permission in advance. That makes Creative Commons content perfect for use in classroom projects. Students can find engaging images, videos and music clips to enhance their work AND respect the ownership rights of content creators all at the same time.
Efrén Lepe's curator insight,
September 11, 2013 9:19 AM
Ideas breves y acotadas sobre el fenómeno CC. Ofrece algunos motores de búsqueda para encontrar recursos bajo licencia CC.
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Our University has launched a free online resource centre for all Higher Education staff to access a range of learning and teaching guides. The Leeds Met Press published titles, which were previously sold under license to other institutions who wished to adapt the materials for their own university, are now available as Open Educational Resources (OERs). The collection includes popular resources such as 'In at the Deep End', a guide for colleagues starting their teaching careers in Higher Education, 'Writing and Using Good Learning Outcomes' and 'Hands-on Internationalisation'. Titles have been written by Leeds Met authors including Graham Gibbs, Phil Race, David Baum, Sally Brown, Simon Thomson and the Director of the University's Centre for Learning and Teaching, Ruth Pickford. - See more at: http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/news/leeds-met-opens-up-to-online-resources17062013.htm?type=external#sthash.4NN
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The OpenData StackExchange site has just launched in beta, and looks to be a great resource for open data sources.
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One of the leading benefits of OER is that they are free and open to educators all over the globe. The information can be used by any student or teacher and ease out their teaching and sharing by simply visiting a website to access the material.
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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is an all-digital library that aggregates metadata — or information describing an item — and thumbnails for more than 7 million photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the united states.The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
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Here are the best sources for Open Educational Resources (OER) suggested by expert educators.
Education is a fundamental human right and as important as the primary basic needs. It improves one’s knowledge, gives one a broader view of the world around us and how things work, reduces the social and economic disparity, thus propagating equality and also raises one's self esteem. But the world’s overall educational statistics aren’t up to the mark, only 22% of the world's children finish high school and only 55% finish sixth grade. Noticing these drawbacks, many educators, administrators and startups have started creating awareness on education. Introduction of technology into the educational field creates a revolution in student learning. Unlike olden days, people nowadays have numerous sources to get quality education at low costs or even free of cost. Tutorials of high qualified professors, materials from well-established universities and courses on numerous topics from around the world are available on Web. The above mentioned things come under Open Educational Resources (OER).
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Open source alternatives can come in handy in more ways than one. While the fact that they are free reduces your costs a lot, the constant support from the community is also a big boost for any developer. Take a look at these 15 software that are completely free and open source!
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We’ve introduced you to a variety of quality image sites where you can find Creative Commons images, but the Creative Commons license goes far beyond just images. Different types of content are licensed online using Creative Commons — videos, music, and even blog content. You’ll find plenty of it online to share, remix and use commercially. When it comes to Creative Commons music — there are certainly no shortage of websites with audio you can use for any occasion.
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HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. What can you do with HathiTrust? Browse collections [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?colltype=featured ] Explore user-created featured collections.
Read books online [ http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015069268087 ] Read millions of titles online — like this one!
Read books on the go [ http://m.hathitrust.org/ ] Take the library’s books anywhere with our mobile website.
Download books* & create collections *requires institutional login
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Tips and tricks to finding Creative Commons video assets and how to use them correctly in your own videos.
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This page provides an annotated list of websites with OER (Open Educational Resources) for education teaching materials. It is not a definitive list - please let us know of sites that you think should...
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With the trend for freely available online resources now growing popular at university level, Patrick Lockley notes that the impact of such material is now of increasing interest to funding bodies....
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An Introduction to OER and Directory of Major OER Repositories From information famine to information overload Over the past decade or two the Internet has
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This binder is a compliation of resources shared at the KSDE Annual Conference Panel Discussion on Open Education Resources, Nov 2, 2011
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Find out about open educational resources(OER)and the benefits that creating, sharing and using OER can provide. Improve the way that you create, share and use OER by using our guide.
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Thanks @Educause for this great list of #OER http://t.co/Cbpqdjk0IA #edtech #onlineed
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An amazing list of free e-books!