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History of OER

•1994: Learning Object Enters Discourse

•“Digital Materials Can Be Designed and Produced…As to Be Reused Easily”

•1998: Open Content Enters Discourse

•Principles of Open Source (Software) Can Be Applied to Content

•2001: Creative Commons Licenses Introduced

•Also 2001: OpenCourseware Initiative Launched by MIT

•2002: Open Educational Resourced Defined at UNESCO Forum

•Among the first repositories of OER (over 20 years)

•Makes available “virtually all of MIT course content”

•Because course content may be based off very specific use, requires creativity and patience when it comes to repurposing

•Peer Reviewed (Can see comments from reviewers)

•Wide Range of Subjects

•Lots of Resource Types

•Best for ‘Assembling’ Content from Multiple Resource Types

•Some Content May Be Tricky to Remix

•Note That Some Paid Sources Are Included in Links

•Clear Peer Review Process

•From University of California

•Lots of Available Resources

•Somewhat Ad Hoc, so More Likely to See Dead Links

•Also More Likely to Find Something Not Available Elsewhere

•Some Reviews, But Not as Many As Other Sites

•Whole package available (books with supplemental resources)

•Includes some course cartridges that can be loaded into Canvas

•Limited Number of Resources

•Peer Reviewed (Though Process Unclear)

•From Rice University

•Frequently Linked to by Other “Free Book” Resources