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Get Up To Speed with OER

This is a self-paced tutorial for faculty and staff to learn about Open Educational Resources - what they are, how to find and evaluate them, how to adapt and create them, and how to handle the copyright and technical implications.

Gathering and Evaluating OER

Learning Objectives

Once you've completed this module, you'll be able to:

  • Efficiently locate existing Open Educational Resources using various search tools, archives, and repositories
  • Evaluate Open Educational Resources for appropriateness in terms of type, format, audience, purpose, scope of topic, quality, reliability, etc.
  • Be ready to adapt and revise any Open Educational Resource that you find, in order to make it appropriate for their learners and their learning objectives