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Browsing by Course-Related Materials or Libraries and Collections : located in OER Teaching and Learning Materials . You can also browse by subject areas as well as grade level.
Under the heading“Course-Related Materials,”there are three categories:
At a glance, you can see how many items are in each category. The number in parentheses shows the quantity of OER items for that category. If, for example, you don’t have time to browse hundreds or thousands of OER items, filter your search after you click on the category.
If you are looking for a specific instructional component such as a simulation or a video lecture, course-related materials are also categorized by 16 different instructional components. Clicking on any one of these components will display a listing of all the items for that particular instructional component.
Under the heading“Libraries and Collections,”you will find digitized primary sources from a wide variety of digital media collections and libraries.
You can also browse each individual content provider’s collection for either the Course-Related Materials or the Libraries and Collections.
Browsing by Tags
Tags are keywords you associate with an OER item. Tags are a way for you to personalize/categorize OER items. OER Commons provides pre-set categories; tags are the way for you to create your own categories. Read more on tags .
Top 30 Tags : located on the right side of the OER Commons homepage.
The results page lists other tags related to the one you chose.
TagCloud: located on the right side of the OER Commons homepage . The“ TagCloud ”page lists all the tags in OER Commons.
The size of a word indicates its popularity.
Using one or more of the searching or browsing methods, locate materials you can begin using in your teaching or learning. After finding an item you can use, save it by clicking the“Save Item”link located under the title. (See Figure 3.)
Figure 3. Visual representation of an OER item with the“Save Item”link.
When you save this item, it goes into your portfolio. We’ll be talking more about your OER Portfolio in another module.
In the OER Commons discussion“ How and Why of OER ,”post your stories, suggestions, and questions with using OER in your teaching and learning. Here are some questions to consider in your post:
The following resource has been selected to provide more information on concepts we covered in this module.
This module showed how quickly you can find OER materials. The next module,“ Tagging, Rating, and Reviewing OER Materials ,”will show how you can start contributing to OER Commons by tagging, rating, and reviewing the materials you have used.
For more information about OER Commons, send an email to info@oercommons.org .
Use this feedback form to send OER Commons general feedback, a feature request, or information about a bug/problem you had using the site.
To see the ever-growing list of the new content providers and contributors to OER Commons, visit the Content Providers page often. You can be one too!
When information is identified as meaningful, it is a force for change.
The "How Tos" of OER Commons is a set of learning modules evolving out of the development of OER Commons ( (External Link) ), a teaching and learning network for free-to-use educational materials from around the world, created and licensed by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME).
Course contributors are Lisa Petrides, Amee Godwin, and Cynthia Jimes, and online learning consultant, Patricia Delich.
For more information, visit (External Link) and (External Link) .
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