I see this as a great starting place. Find a way that works for you. Work with it. Adapt it. Then in due course create your own in the image of the design that you have found works for you and your students.
My experience may well need to be reviewed. I simply have not had the time to dig around enough. All may have their merits and others may tell me if I am missing a trick. Some of these platforms need to rethink their approach regarding quality controls. I also wonder if a 'community of practice' through the likes of LinkedIn could provide support and links to resources that have a better fit for you.
Open Education Resource Platform | Notes and Examples | Rate |
Open Learn https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ A repository of open materials produced by The Open University, | Excellent. Out of box. Just get on and do it! The Open University was established to make learning possible for those still in work, in care roles, who may have left school early or without qualifications. It’s mission with Open Learn as with the Open University and even the Business and Laws Schools is to make content accessible in every meaning of the word: attainable, usable, doable, (easier). E.G. Take Your Teaching Online > https://bit.ly/39LI4Vw Art and Visual Culture : From Medieval to Modern > https://bit.ly/33JuMF0 Lights, Camera, Action : technology and theatre > https://bit.ly/37GsuHQ Open Advent > https://www.open.edu/openlearn/advent | 5+ |
MIT Open Course MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials A web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. | Undergraduate and graduate courses in full with every possible detail provided to run such a course. E.G. 12 hours a week over 16 weeks: the real deal > Education Technology Studio Rachel Slama, Garron Hillaire, Joshua Littenberg-Tobias, and Jose Ruiperez-Valiente. CMS.594 Education Technology Studio. Spring 2019. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. E.G. Special 1 Hour Seminar in Communication: Leadership and Personal Effectiveness Coaching. Christine Kelly. 15.277 Special Seminar in Communications: Leadership and Personal Effectiveness Coaching. Fall 2008. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. (1 hour for post-grad MBA students, 3 to 4 hours for School/College undergrads) | 5 |
Saylor.org Nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels | Sounds like Open Learn and Adult Learning: articles, lectures and videos. Aiming for people seeking career change, getting into a career or getting into uni. Certification / badges ala Coursera / FutureLearn. Sign in required. https://youtu.be/vAEZoveEUg8 E.G. Beginning Lower-Intermediate English as a Second Language + 12 hours, course outcomes and materials. Modern Revolutions + 85 horse, course outcomes, certification and materials. E.G Learning in a Digital Age: digital literacies, digital citizenship, open education, media literacies and digital skills > Develop and apply digital and learning literacies that are critical for learning success in tertiary education in the 21st century. Last updated 28 Sept 2020. https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=388 | 5 |
OER Africa Developing professional educational resources with the Hewlett Foundation. | Focus > Agriculture, Foundation Skills, Health and Teacher education for the African context.
E.G. Communication Skills, Kampala university. Download Resource as a .docx. As a Google Doc, template to personalise with learning outcomes, modules, aims and units running to 55 pages | 4 |
Open Educational Resources https://archive.org/details/education A library that contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from the US and China. | Requires Email Sign in. Over 6 million videos. Hilarious archive training films. Old TV and commercials. Super 8mm on sexual maturity. 1973. Download options. The World at War. Genocide. Video 2017 ‘Kick starting Your Career’. Nearly 5 million books. E.G. Book > World War One, Norman Stone First World War, Horrible Histories. Borrow for an hour. | 4 |
OER Commons Free-to-use learning and teaching content from around the world. | Author Open Resources. All education levels and adult learning. E.G. 21st Century Skills, including for example digital fluency for adult learners. A set of instructional videos paired with a simple assessment. Learners that get a passing score are awarded a digital badge. These can be shared to Google Classroom. 21st Century Skills for Teachers > Collaboration, Creativity, Communication, and Critical Thinking. Just a set of 5 slides.
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Open Course Library A collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts. | Materials shared to Google Drive: Docs, tables, lesson plans and activities. Readily adapted. However heavily US, business and manufacturing orientated. | 3 |
Merlot https://www.merlot.org/merlot/ Tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and content builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, | A thoughtful, time consuming sign in process and account verification process that helps place you, your field of interest, institution and students before offering content. Filter by: discipline, material type, audience and platform Deeply disappointed that having clicked through categories and read through what looked like it would be an up to date YouTube video on Social Media I got the alert ‘This site does not exist’. Thankfully the next shot, to get a resource that would help students make better presentations with slides was a hit with a TED lecture and blog > https://blog.ted.com/10-tips-for-better-slide-decks/ 10 tips on how to make slides that communicate your idea … Then directly into creating a learning exercise from it with a lesson exercise sheet to complete > The Learning Exercise form will allow you to define the tasks, audience and all aspects of the exercise for others to use with the corresponding MERLOT material. Please provide as much information and detail as possible. Twice more a dead end. Then not only off site, but further sign in and payment expected. Go through THAT official registration successfully but still have no access. | 3 |
OpenStax CNX Tens of thousands of learning objects, organised into thousands of textbook-style books in a host of disciplines, | Books, so pages, with diagrams, text and exercises. Search by subject, browse by keyword and publication date. E.G. SWOT analysis > https://bit.ly/2VI8ZsR Employer Training and Development > https://bit.ly/2VE5Fim However, the community is self-managed, which rather like people who blog can result in some random contributions and domination by an individual. | 3 |
AMSER Repository A portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges | Applied Math and Science Repository. US but many subjects covered even though Science bias, with military science, arts, history etc: but the taxonomy search/browse did not work. More like an index. Some content from 2001. And three times ended up with an empty ‘folder’ with no resources to use. | 1 |
Solvonauts A search engine that searches across repositories (they also provide open repository software for institutions wanting to set up their own repository of OER). | No sign in. Simple, too basic, too 2010. More like a directory. The content I considered was out of date and simply a video of someone’s presentation | 1 |