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OER Discipline-Specific Sources

Module by: Judy Baker. E-mail the author

Summary: Guide to discipline-specific sources of open educational resources.

OER Discipline-Specific Sources

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  • Fast Fact
  • Skill/Objective
  • Success Indicators
  • Introduction
  • Activity
  • Review questions
  • Resources

Fast Fact

Learning objects are:

  • Web-based, self-contained, small chunks of learning
  • small enough to be embedded in a learning activity, lesson, unit or course
  • flexible, portable, and adaptable, and can be used in multiple learning environments and across disciplines

Skills/Objectives

Learners will be able to:

  1. Identify resources for locating OER in their own teaching disciplines.
  2. Develop a lesson plan using a discipline-specific OER.

Success Indicators

  1. Lesson plan developed which uses OER.

Introduction

In addition to simply searching for Public Domain Materials on the Web, a number of OER and learning object repositories of on the internet provide a means to search for learning materials by topic and academic subject matter. The Center for International Education at UW-Milwaukee provides a thorough list of learning object repositories.

Other repositories include:

Other discipline-specific sources of OER include:

Archeology

Art History

Computer Science

Economics

French

Health

History

Literature

Math

Philosophy

Physics

Political Science

Psychology

Science

Sociology

Spanish

Activity

Experience

  1. Find learning materials in your teaching discipline at each of the following repositories. Note whether or not a review or rating of the learning materials is available.

Reflect

Complete one of the following reflection activities:

  1. Join MERLOT, identify learning materials in your teaching discipline, then add an assignment to a learning object or review a learning object.
  2. Join OER Commons, then make your own posting to the OER Matters Discussions area. Click on OER Matters Localization Forum to answer the following question:

"Participate in discussions about how open education content is localized and how the creation of OER facilitates or impedes making content be context-specific. How is content localized at the individual, school, cultural, and national level, and what are the benefits?"

Apply

  1. Identify the most useful sources of OER for use in your teaching discipline.
  2. Develop a lesson plan using these discipline-specific sources. Post your lesson plan to MERLOT

Review Questions

  1. What is a learning object?
  2. What are the most useful sources of OER in your teaching discipline?
  3. What criteria can be used to assess the usefulness of these OERs?

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