Open Educational Resources are all about sharing.

In a brave new world of learning, OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know.  http://www.oercommons.org/

Open Educational Resources (OER). The Internet and digital technologies have transformed how people learn. Educational resources are no longer static and scarce, but adaptable and widely available, allowing educational institutions, teachers, and learners to actively participate in a global exchange of knowledge via http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER

The OER Center for California provides support for community college educators to find, create, remix, use, and share openly licensed learning content. Together, as knowledge workers, we can learn to share…and share to learn. http://grou.ps/oercenter

OER Research

The body of work collected here represents the combined efforts of organizations worldwide. During the last ten years, as the Open Educational Resources movement has grown, so has the body of research being produced on the topic. We invite you to engage with the new discoveries and analyses that this collection has to offer. http://oer.issuelab.org/research

Introduction to OER Tutorial

This tutorial is designed to provide U.S. community college educators with the knowledge and skills necessary to find, use, develop, and share open educational resources.  In addition, educators will discover a variety of worldwide efforts underway to make educational opportunity available to more people.  While educators are likely to benefit personally and professionally from completing this tutorial, they may find that the biggest reward is in meeting others like themselves and joining in the OER Movement. View document here

Training

Self-paced Tutorials about Open Textbooks

Self-paced Tutorials about Open Educational Resources

Training

Blogs

MERLOT Open Textbook Project

  • The Student PIRGs and MERLOT formed a strategic alliance to promote use of open textbooks with the new Open Textbooks Project.  Visitors to MERLOT can now find open textbooks using the Open Textbook category under Advanced Search > Material Type.
  • See open textbooks listed at MERLOT.  MERLOT members are encouraged to provide evaluation and commentary on the listed open textbooks.  For details, visit MERLOT Innovations.

Google Books

On August 13, 2009, Google announced that authors can now use Google Books to distribute their Creative Commons licensed work.  Authors benefit from using a CC license because it allows them to distribute their work more widely and clearly communicate how they want the content to be used and shared.  Readers who download these books can use the work in ways specified by the license such as giving proper credit to the author on any remixes or further public distributions.

To date, nine open-access books are available for download from Google Books:

Open Licensed Photos

Educators seeking images for slideshow presentations can now find Creative Commons open licensed photos using Flickr, Google, and Picasa.