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Open Educational Resources: A Guide for Educators and Learners
A plain starting guide to open educational resources: what they are, where they come from, and how teachers and students can each put them to practical use.
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Open Resource Guides
Practical guides to finding, using, creating and licensing open educational resources.
Open Educational Resources: A Guide for Teachers and Educators
A teacher-side workflow for picking an open resource, adapting it to a lesson plan, and keeping a clear record of every change you make along the way.
Open Educational Resources: A Guide to Creating Accessible Content
An authoring checklist for building new open learning material that works with screen readers, captions and clear structure from the very first draft.
Open Educational Resources: A Guide to Creating Your Own
How to decide whether to write an open resource from scratch, scope a manageable first project, and release it with a clear license others can rely on.
Open Educational Resources: A Guide to Using Them Effectively
Practical advice on fitting open materials into a course week by week, with quality checks, sensible pacing and the mistakes teachers most often run into.
Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Accessibility Features
A review of the accessibility features commonly found in open resources and formats, from text alternatives and captions to flexible layouts, and their limits.
Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Best Practices
A summary of widely agreed good habits for selecting, attributing, adapting and sharing open educational resources, with the reasons behind each habit.
Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Best Sources
A look at the kinds of repositories, libraries and collections where open learning materials can be found, and practical ways to judge whether each is reliable.
Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Copyright Issues
A general explanation of copyright basics, open licenses and attribution, plus the common pitfalls of combining differently licensed educational material.
Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Technical Requirements
A review of the technical side of open educational resources: file formats, hosting, devices and bandwidth, and what is needed to publish or reuse them.
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