OER Commons

Last July I wrote about how the non profit organisation,Creative Commons, was providing us with a solution with regard to reusing other people's creativity responsibly. Creative Commons,introduced in 2008, provides us with a multitude of royalty free sites and its licencing allows us to reuse content and   share our own creativity with the rest of the world, legally.

In the same spirit,OER Commons was  created in 2007 and it provides teaching and learning materials that you may  freely use and reuse without charge legally.

The evergrowing worldwide OER movement is rooted in the idea that access to high quality education should be available to all.Its an alternative to rising costs of education and also gives us the opportunity of  trying new ways to teach and learn.

OER (Open Education Resources) has over 120 major content partners
Some examples of OER Materials are:

• MOOCS (Massive Online Open Courses).These courses are offered freely online by leading universities including Standford,Harvard and Edinburgh.
• Khan Academy
• Gooru
• TED- Ed
• Watch Know Learn
• School Tube