This came across my radar via Mastodon on the announcement that OERSI now indexes the entire Pressbooks Directory (as well as titles from OpenStax)
I’ve often recommended for OER search metasearch/federated sites like the Mason OER Metafinder and OASIS, but with just some brief play, I’d suggest strongly using the advanced search features in OERSI and note that the site offers access in German, Dutch, English, and Ukraniane (!!).
OERSI indicates it indexes (today) 75904 OERs. It’s the filters on the left side that make it powerful:
- Academic Subject (multilevel)
- Type (video, course, textbook, presentation, worksheet,. etc)
- License (you know, CC flavors)
- Author (search or browse)
- Organization (to filter by universities, etc)
- Language (From Arabic to Vietnamese and many more in between)
- Provider (here is where I can see MIT COurseware, Pressbooks Directory, and many other repositories)
Okay, how specific is this? I found 6 videos for psychology in Finnish
How about OER for Geeology/Paleontology from MIT OpenCourseware or Pressbooks Directory? Yes, 62 of them.
What about OERs authored by Rajiv Jhangiani @rajiv That would be 31
Rather than just plopping keywords in, filtered searching lets you change and modify results both easily and powerfully.
Kudos to OERSI, which we have heard about before in presentations from @axel.klinger
And noting that the entire project is open source available in GitLab.
Don’t just take my word for it- give OERSI a try and share a really useful or interesting result below.
I am hoping we can organize soon an OEG Live episode to learn more about OERSI.