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| + | ==What Is An Open Education Resource?== |
| - | <big>'''Welcome to the OER Commons Wiki,'''</big> a shared workspace for individuals and groups of educators to develop and share open educational resources. | + | <big>'''Open Education Resources'''</big> (OER) are digital teaching, learning, and research materials available online for public use. OERs are typically used by teachers, students, and self- learners. They include are virtual collections of educational items such as streaming videos, full courses, course materials, textbooks, tests, lectures, assignments and any other educational resources used to provide knowledge. |
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| - | ''The OER Commons Wiki is an initiative of ''[http://www.iskme.org The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management (ISKME)]''.''
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| - | <big>'''Recent Updates/Changes to the OER Commons Wiki'''</big>
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| - | '''NEW:''' Subject-Based OER Project Exploration!!
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| - | If you are looking for '''ARTS-RELATED educational tools''', view the [[OER and Arts Education]] wiki page.
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| - | If you are looking for '''SCIENCE-RELATED educational tools''', view the [[OER and Science Education]] wiki page.
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| - | Otherwise, all OER Projects & Workshops are listed in chronological order at the [[Projects]] page.
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| - | '''What are OER?'''
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| - | Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.
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| - | '''Getting Started'''
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| - | 1. [[Special:Userlogin|Create an account]]. If you have an OER Commons account, you must still create an account for the wiki separately, but we suggest using the same login information for the wiki as for OER Commons.
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| - | 2. Explore our [[Tutorial]] modules: How to Use OER Commons.
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| - | 3. Help build a rich network of OER resources! Join or add [[projects]]. Browse, create or localize Open Educational Resources (OER) published in the project section of the OER Commons Wiki.
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| - | '''Licensing'''
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| - | * Unless specified otherwise, contributions to the OER Commons Wiki are licensed under a ''[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share-Alike License]'' (see OER Commons Wiki Privacy and Use Policy for details).
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| - | * If you don't want your work to be edited and redistributed, please do not submit it here. This is a vibrant community in which we work together to create resources.
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| - | * You also promise that whatever you post, you wrote yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. Do not submit copyrighted work here without permission.
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| - | '''Contributors'''
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| - | Our [[Contributors]] include a range of people from all over the world interested in developing and using open educational resources.
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