OER Repositories, so many of them, and also, so many lists to links to repositories. We call here for your help for something that will help frame part of activities for next year’s Open Education Week (early ahem– March 4-8, 2024).
What are the broadest/most comprehensive places for people to share and find OER? The big ships, if you will…
These are the attributes we are looking for-- Repositories that:
Cross all disciplines
Covers a wide multiple types of OER format (e.g. not just textbooks or videos or specific media)
Allow for anyone to contribute/suggest an OER (This is a must have)
Ones of regional (e.g. continent/country/audience) focus (yes @danmcguire I seek those ones that include or focus on K12, can you help?)
Ones with content are all explicitly openly licensed
ideally, ones that are indexed by federated searches. e.g. listed as sources for OASIS, OERSI, Mason OER Finder (also if you know more of these types of searches reply below).
We seek not a Big List nor a list of ALL repositories but a list of the Big Comprehensive Ones. Obviously the first draft below is thin! In searching I have stumbled across many link lists and more broken links than my web heart can take.
How to Contribute
The next response below will be set up to be Wiki Style. This means, if you are logged in to OEG Connect, you can click an Edit button, and add/edit modify what is there. Feel free as well to reply using the Reply button here to send comments/feedback/questions about what we are doing.
The Big OER Repository List (Big as in Repository, not the list)
Here is the part you can edit (see button below) please keeping in mind the characteristics listed above, repositories that
Cross all disciplines
Covers a wide multiple types of OER format (e.g. not just textbooks or videos or specific media)
Allow for anyone to contribute/suggest an OER (This is a must have)
Ones of regional (e.g. continent/country/audience) focus (yes @danmcguire I seek those ones that include or focus on K12, can you help?)
Ones with content are all explicitly openly licensed
ideally, ones that are indexed by federated searches. e.g. listed as sources for OASIS, OERSI, Mason OER Finder (also if you know more of these types of searches reply below).
Use that Edit button to make this list bigger/better.
WikiEducator https://wikieducator.org - much OER, collaboratively assembled by a global community of educators. There are also many entire courses (mostly made up of micro-courses) and remixes of those courses. Most is in English, but there is some French and other languages, too. Also, there’s a full, dedicated Spanish-language- community version: https://es.wikieducator.org
edit here here is where you add more because we know there are more…
Regional (Continental/Country) Broad OER Repositories
A good example of a robust, well-developed regional (well, state) OER repository is OERTX, which is built on OER Commons. “OERTX Repository is a public digital library of open educational resources for higher education.” It is managed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Thanks Yasin, you know how much I adore H5P, and these are certainly of interest. But the ones I am hoping to gather are not specific to one content type, looking for the ships that can store any kind of OER. And most likely referatory style.
Thank you for mentioning K-12. Unfortunately, there are not many Big repositories beyond OER Commons and MoodleNet. Skillscommons should probably be on the list, though, as many of their entries are suitable for secondary schools.
