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
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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.
DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) is an Indian national platform for school education
aoe.fi (Library of Open Educational Resources) is a Finnish national platform for sharing OER in all educational sectors (including life long learning). The shared resources are searchable in different libraries and for example in the joint search service for Finnish museums, libraries and archives Finna.fi
Canadian context: OER K -12 - Google Docs (note: not really a repository, you can request access to edit, still some useful links)
See Also
WikiEducator https://wikieducator.org - much open content, 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
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.
Thank you Shushumna, that’s new to me, and very worthwhile as a repository for French language resources. It looks like Camerise enables contributing resources.
I do not see any kind of licensing designation for content, but the terms and conditions suggest the person who adds something acknowledges the resource is original or does not include copyrighted material and that they grant Camrise the rights to share it openly.
DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) is an Indian national platform for school education, an initiative of National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), under the aegis of the Ministry of Education (MoE), GoI. Launched in 2017. DIKSHA has been adopted by almost all the States, Union Territories, central autonomous bodies/boards in India.
Thank you, Anna! This Library of OER has all the featured, flexible search, a wide range of resource types, clear licensing, and a means to add new OER.
Thank you Sushumna for adding our local/regional repository Camerise (York university FSL Hub) to the list. We are working with Learnful (Yasin Dahi on this thread of discussion) to create version 3.0 for the Camerise repository with a H5P studio allowing authoring OER directly from the platform. Version 3.0 will provide our users direct access to other OER repsoitories to find resources they could use to create derivatives for the field. More to comme soon.
That’s very exciting to read this development for Camerise. I’m a big fan of Learnful and it’s Studio concept (and @yasin.dahi!) Please keep us posted.
Thank you, I am enjoying seeing the H5P resources you are sharing for Open Education Week.
These lists are useful for helping educators find places to look for OERs, what I have been seeking are the repositories we can recommend to people to add their own OERs into to be shared
