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About OER

The term Open Educational Resources (OER) includes educational content which is shared freely and openly to be used by anyone to adapt/ repurpose/improve under an open copyright licence in order to redistribute and share again The emergence of open educational resources (OER) in higher education is part of the much larger social movement towards ‘opening up’…

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Creative Commons

Introducing the Creative Commons License Why do we need open licenses? What has changed in the world which implies the need for something between “All rights reserved” and “Public domain”? Watch the video below to get acquainted with the open licensing philosophy. Creative Commons Basics Creative Commons is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the…

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Have an online resource or website which you find really useful in your teaching practice?  Please submit the URL of the website and we will add it to the VIU Open Educational Resources directory.

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Recent additions

  • Videvo: Free Stock Video Footage December 15, 2017
  • Strategies for Academic Success July 21, 2017
  • Soundcloud Creative Commons Search May 30, 2017
  • YouTube Audio Library  May 30, 2017
  • Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science February 10, 2017
  • Course: OER-Active Learning with Liberating Structures January 17, 2017
  • Open Case Studies from the University of British Columbia January 5, 2017
  • National Gallery of Art: Public Domain Images  October 7, 2016
  • Pixabay: Free high Quality Images September 13, 2016
  • The Open Syllabus Project  September 12, 2016

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  • Animations (1)
  • Audio (10)
  • Case Studies (1)
  • Diagrams (1)
  • ebooks (8)
  • Icons (3)
  • Images (11)
  • Learning Activities (1)
  • Online Courses (2)
  • Open Source Software (5)
  • Referatory (4)
  • Repositories (11)
  • Research (3)
  • Syllabi (2)
  • Textbooks (11)
  • Video (6)
  • Welcome (2)

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