OER useful resources/Portals and gateways

[edit] General portals and gateways

DiscoverEd: Hosted by ccLearn, the education program of Creative Commons. DiscoverEd is a fully functional prototype for "enhanced search" specific to educational resources, with special attention to OER. Its archive is growing rapidly - if you know of additional resources of any form and in any language that should be included, visit the DiscoverEd FAQ to find out how to contribute to this open resource.; Scope:

Knowledge Hub (KHUB): Hosted by the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Knowledge Hub is a public, multilingual portal to selected OER. It uses metadata built by experts, faceted searching and social networking tools to help teachers and students find the best resources for their educational needs.; Scope: 10,214 items; To find out more about this initiative read the Knowledge Hub OER story

OER Commons: Designed as a teaching and learning network, OER Commons has links to OER materials for all levels of education as well as related links, such as news stories, articles, conferences and discussion forums. It aims to expand educational opportunities by increasing access and facilitating the creation and re-use of OER. Features include a "My OER Portfolio" function. Users can create a personalized portfolio to give them quick access to their previous use of the OER Commons, including reviews and ratings. They can then choose to share their portfolio with others, or view others’ portfolios to see how people are finding, using and interacting with OER.; OER Commons is maintained by ISKME, with support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.; Scope: 10,737 links

OpenCourseWare Consortium: A collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware. The site enables users to find course materials by browsing the individual OpenCourseWare sites of member institutions or by searching across all courses. It also features resources to help institutions start an opencourseware initiative of their own.

Open Educational Resources Development Gateway Community: A worldwide OER clearinghouse. The African Virtual University and Utah State University's Center for Open and Sustainable Learning serve as expert guides, and work with members, cooperating organizations and other volunteers to provide high quality learning content, tools and implementation resources to the community.; Scope: 477 resources

SLIDESTAR: Designed as a sharing and rating community and platform, SLIDESTAR is a open and free repository for video- and audiolectures, powerpoint slides for learning and other PDF documents. Users can search for universities (slidespots), teachers (slidestars) or content (slideware). Interesting is the possibility to embed your own slideware as a libary into your homepage.; SLIDESTAR is maintained by IMC.; Scope: approx. 450 resources

UniversitySurf: A French language e-learning portal, hosted by the University of Bourgogne. UniversitySurf offers free and open access to teaching materials and resources from French universities and schools, national research centres (CNRS), Francophone universities worldwide and many personal teaching sites. Resources are searchable by level and discipline. Users can suggest links to new teaching materials. Educators can put their own resources online through the portal, using Moodle. The portal also gathers information on higher education in France and open and distance learning.; Scope: 1,400 courses and links to thousands more online resources in French

EdNA (Education Network Australia) Online: Owned by the Australian Government, EdNA Online is a gateway to resources and services that aims to support and promote the benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in Australia. It is organised around the Australian curriculum and provides users with access to materials of interest to teachers and learners of all levels, covering a wide range of subjects. EdNA harvests resources from select Australian collections, as part of a movement to develop a distributed repository of Australian learning materials. It also considers for inclusion resources suggested by users.; Restrictions: free access for Australian educators only

Resource Discovery Network (RDN): The UK's free national gateway to Internet resources for the teaching, learning and research community. The RDN is a collaboration of over seventy educational and research organisations, including the Natural History Museum and the British Library. The service links to resources through a series of subject-based information gateways. Although primarily aimed at users in UK higher and further education, the network is freely available to all.; Scope: over 100,000 resources

Wisconsin Online Resource Center: A large, searchable repository of learning objects in wide range of subjects, all implemented in Flash (as is much of the website). Users can deep-link to objects within the site.; Scope: 2,158 objects; Restrictions: users must register to access the materials, although registration is free

EduResources Portal: A gateway to higher education instructional resources on the Internet, maintained by Joseph Hart at Eastern Oregon University.; Scope: approx. 250 resources

OpenCourseWare-Repositories: List of open courseware initiatives from around the world created by Marc Jelitto, a PhD student of the Institut für Umweltkommunikation of the Lüneburg University.; Scope: approx. 30 initiatives

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