Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials that are freely available under a license that allows them to be:

• reused - users have the right to reuse the content in its unaltered/verbatim form
• revised - users have the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
• remixed - users have the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new
• redistributed - users have the right to make and share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others.

For further details and background see the thorough review article in WikiEducator at http://wikieducator.org/Open_educational_resources_and_practices

For a project on Learner Use of OER see LUOERL - funded by Higher Education Academy and JISC May-June 2011.

For the upcoming project on Policies for OER Uptake see http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/POERUP

Reusable Learning Content

National Digital Learning Resources, a collaborative community of Higher Education academics in Ireland, is a repository including 71 collections [1] of Reusable Learning Objects, relatively small content components that are meant to be reusable in different contexts.

Moodle Repositories: [2]

   Youtube videos [3]
   Flickr public [4]
   Flickr [5]
   Picasa web album [6]
   URL downloader [7]
   Wikimedia [8]
   Alfresco [9]
   Amazon S3 [10]
   Box.net [11]
   Dropbox [12]
   File system [13]
   Legacy course files [14]
   Merlot.org [15]
   EQUELLA [16]
   WebDAV [17]