Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (S0): OER Best Practices and Guidelines

Best Practices

A 7 Step Guide to Creating Your Own Open Educational Resources
Analysis of Existing Research and Best Practices from OCW Consortium in Europe:
This report examines the results of a questionnaire completed by leaders of OER initiatives from around the world. These case studies were used to create guidelines for the successful implementation of OER/OCW initiatives.
Archived Webinar: Fostering Open Policies on Your Campus and Beyond from Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources:
This webinar from November 2013 brought together OER leaders from Tacoma Community College, Maricopa Community College District, and Creative Commons to share their strategies for successfully growing open educational policies and practices.
Community College OER Showcases - Scottsdale's OER Math Program Slideshare Link

Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN)
OPEN provides free support and technical assistance to grantees of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College & Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program from the U.S. Department of Labor, but many of the resources are available to all.
Understanding the eTextbook War--And How to Prepare:
This article reports best practices for etextbook adoption.
Rubrics for Evaluating Open Education Resource (OER) Objects

Open Educational Resource Databases and Search Engines

Academic Earth
Over 1,500 video lectures from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
JISC
Joint Information Systems Committee works on behalf of UK higher education and is involved in many open resources and open projects including digitizing British newspapers from 1620-1900!
OEDb
OEDb is a comprehensive online education directory for both free and for-credit learning options. They offer up-to-date, detailed program information from accredited online colleges for degree seekers and categorize free online college courses from well-known universities and providers.
OER Commons
Over 40,000 open educational resources from elementary school through to higher education; many of the elementary, middle, and high school resources are aligned to the Common Core State Standards.
Open Content
A blog, definition, and game of open source as well as a friendly search engine for open educational resources from MIT, Stanford, and other universities with subject and description listings.

Open Educational Resources

Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
Curriki
Curriki is a nonprofit K-12 global community for teachers, students, and parents to create, share, and find free learning resources that enable true personalized learning.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. They are a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
Open Source Education Foundation
An organization that helps disseminate knowledge.
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) actively promotes open source software by educating developers, decision makers, and users about the advantages of open source software and collaboration techniques
OSS Watch
OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance on the use, development, and licensing of free software, open source software, and open source hardware.
School of Open
Recently launched by Creative Commons, the School of Open offers courses on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness."
SchoolForge.net
SchoolForge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open educational resources. They advocate the use of open texts and lessons, open curricula, free software and open source in education.
SourceForge
SourceForge is an Open Source community resource dedicated to helping open source projects be as successful as possible. They thrive on community collaboration to help us create a premiere resource for open source software development and distribution.