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Content Resource Site (OER)

Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.

Check this page and the Tri-C library's OER Research Guide regularly for an updated list of OER modules, tools, and resources!

Description: OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and educator network. You can explore open education resources and join the network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.

Why should faculty use it? Usage rights are clear and the resources are free to students, saving them money on textbooks

How faculty access: Visit the OER Commons website 

Accessibility Statement Link: Check Each OER for accessibility prior to using in a course.

Description: Free educational resources through Rice University

Why should faculty use it? Usage rights are clear and the resources are free to students, saving them money on textbooks

How faculty access: Visit the OpenStax website

Accessibility Statement: Check Each OER for accessibility prior to using in a course.

Description: Annenberg Learner is a Washington, DC-based multimedia division of the Annenberg Foundation that funds, develops and distributes educational video programs along with coordinated web and print materials to improve teaching methods and subject-matter expertise primarily for K-12 teachers.

Why should faculty use it? Annenberg provides open source learning materials and learning exercises.

How faculty access: Visit the Annenberg Learner website

Accessibility Statement Link: Be sure all resources used meet Tri-C's accessibility requirements, ie., screen reader accessible, all audio is in text format, etc.

Description: The Open Education program at Creative Commons includes open educational resources (OER) that are licensed for reuse and are pulled from multiple resource locations.

Why should faculty use it? Thanks to CC licenses, learners can find and incorporate free materials for reports and presentations, educators can customize textbooks and lesson plans, universities can distribute video lectures to a global audience, and publishers can adapt materials and develop services for an enhanced learning experience.

How faculty access: Visit the Creative Commons website

User Guide: Find OER webpage

Accessibility Statement: Be sure all resources used meet Tri-C accessibility requirements, ie. screen reader accessible, all audio is in text format, etc.

Description: Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, EdX is an online learning destination, offering high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere. 

Why should faculty use it?

  • To improve personal knowledge.
  • Learn new teaching methods.
  • To create a flipped classroom (students watch instructional videos at home, and doing their homework in the class)
  • Because lessons can be accessed around the globe at any time
  • Because videos can supplement lessons for students that learn at a slower pace
  • Incorporate EdX materials into your own courses.
  • Find reference materials for students.
  • Develop curriculum.

Video Introduction: EdX on YouTube.com

How faculty access: Visit the EdX website

User Guide: EdX How It Works webpage

Accessibility Statement Link: If students are required to use this software in a course an accessibility statement is required to be added to the course’s student resources. Review the EdX Website Accessibility Policy for more information.

Description: Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.

Why should faculty use it? Great for additional learning resources. 

How faculty access: Visit the Khan Academy website

User Guide: Khan Academy Help Center

Accessibility Statement Link: If students are required to use this software in a course an accessibility statement is required to be added to the course’s student resources. Review the Khan Academy Accessibility webpage for more information.

Description: LinkedIn Learning leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Access to the video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts. 

How to access: 
LinkedIn Learning is accessed through My Tri-C Space by clicking on the LinkedIn Learning card, or by visiting LinkedIn Learning directly.

Accessibility Statement Link: If students are required to use this software in a course an accessibility statement is required to be added to the course’s student resources. Section 508 compliance. Review the LinkedIn Learning accessibility webpage for more information.

Description: MERLOT (The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-Line Teaching) is a collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

Why should faculty use it? Merlot provides learning materials and learning exercises.

Video Introduction: Advanced Material Search Video

How faculty access: Visit the MERLOT Website 

User Guide: Visit the MERLOTPlace YouTube Channel

Accessibility Statement Link: If students are required to use this software in a course an accessibility statement is required to be added to the course's student resources. Review the MERLOT accessibility statement for more information.

Description: MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to everyone.

Why should faculty use it?

  • To improve personal knowledge.
  • Learn new teaching methods.
  • To create a flipped classroom (students watch instructional videos at home, and doing their homework in the class)
  • Because lessons can be accessed around the globe at any time
  • Because videos can supplement lessons for students that learn at a slower pace
  • Incorporate MIT OCW materials into your own courses.
  • Find reference materials for students.
  • Develop curriculum.
  • No downloading an app or registering. Materials are on the website ready to be used.

How faculty access software: Visit the MITOpenCourseware website

Educator Page: Get Started with OCW

Accessibility Statement Link: If students are required to use this software in a course an accessibility statement is required to be added to the course’s student resources.
 

Description: Photos for class is a service designed to help students and teachers find and cite Creative Commons-licensed images.

How faculty access: Visit the Photos for Class website

User Guide:

  • Filtering for School and Work Use Photos for Class
  • Giving Credit, Where Credit is Due

Accessibility Statement Link: N/A, however, make sure all photos have Alt Text added.

Description: Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

Why should faculty use it?

  • PhET sims can help: introduce a new topic, build concepts or skills, reinforce ideas, and provide final review and reflection.
  • To replace real equipment including circuits, magnets, pendulums, lenses, masses and springs, ripple tanks, standing wave generators, or even a photoelectric effect apparatus.
  • To make science and math fun.

Video Introduction: A Brief Introduction to PhET video

How faculty access: Visit the PhET Interactive Simulations website

User Guide:

  • Tips for Using PhET
  • Teaching physics using PhET simulations

Accessibility Statement Link: If students are required to use this software in a course an accessibility statement is required to be added to the course’s student resources. Review the PhET Inclusive Design webpage.

Description: TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less) that can be watched at any time. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment, and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. TED helps share ideas in communities around the world. 

Why should faculty use it?

  • Because students are more engaged through visually-stimulating videos and presentations
  • Sharing ideas and generating discussions around certain topics
  • For inspiration and motivation
  • Ted-Ed videos cover various learning objectives and can be used as lessons
  • Create the whole lessons around Ted-Ed talks
  • Have students give subject specific Ted Talks

How faculty access:

  • TED Ideas Worth Spreading
  • TEDEd

Accessibility Statement:  Be sure that all TED Talks used for class include closed captioning.

Description: YouTube is a global video-sharing website.

Why should faculty use it?

  • Because it's a free way to make lessons more alive
    Because students can upload their own videos to demonstrate understanding
  • Because lessons can be accessed anywhere, at any time
  • Because videos can supplement lessons for students that learn at a slower pace
  • To create a flipped classroom (students watch instructional videos at home, and do their homework in the class)
  • To enhance a lesson
    To create your own YouTube channel with lessons that can be accessed out of the classroom
  • To create playlists of videos for students

How faculty access: Visit YouTube.com  

User Guide:

  • Sharing videos
  • Creating Videos

Accessibility Statement Link: Be sure that all YouTube videos used in the class include closed captioning. Review the YouTube Accessibility pages for more information.

Description: You don't have to be a genius to understand the work of the Nobel Laureates. These games and simulations, based on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements, will teach and inspire students while you're having FUN!

Why should faculty use it? Simulations are a great way for students to practice what they are learning.

How faculty access: Visit The Nobel Prize website. 

Accessibility Statement: If students are required to use this software in a course an accessibility statement is required to be added to the course's student resources.

Description: "Find open and free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses from the list of Subjects provided." These include Art, Math, Music, Psychology, Science, Physics, Education, Chemistry, Computer Science, History, Language and Communications, Economics and many more.

Why should faculty use it? It has free to student textbooks that can be used in courses

How faculty access: Visit the Community College Consortium for OER website.

Accessibility Statement: Check each OER for accessibility prior to use in a course.

Description: A rubric helps define what counts in an assignment, for both teachers and students. 

Why should faculty use it? Rubrics can teach as well as evaluate. When used as part of a formative, student-centered approach to assessment, rubrics have the potential to help students develop understanding and skill, as well as make dependable judgments about the quality of their own work. Students should be able to use rubrics in many of the same ways that teachers use them—to clarify the standards for a quality performance and to guide ongoing feedback about progress toward those standards.

How faculty access:

  • OERs: University of Wisconsin - Rubrics for Assessment

Description: The NLVM is a digital library that provides K-12 teachers and students with a wide variety of math activities and virtual manipulatives. These resources are arranged into five main categories: Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Probability. Though for K-12, there may be many useful activities for our students. 

How faculty access: Visit the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives website.

Tri-C Resources

Tri-C Library: OER Research Guide

Accessibility Resources

AIMS: OER Accessibility Toolkit
FLOE: Flexible Learning in Online Education

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Digital Public Library of America
Cleveland Digital Public Library
OhioLINK: Open Course Content Library

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