Open educational resources (OER) are digital and reusable learning/instructional objects produced through teaching and training activities. Below are a number of sources you can browse and use.
Finding OERs
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's OERs areÌýpublished on and the university's research is published onÌýÌýas an integral part of its open access policy.
Other OERs related to higher education can be found on websites or specialist repositories for research, learning, and teaching resources.
- Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Collections
- Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Culture Projects
- – includes Grant Museum of Zoology, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Art museum, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Pathology collections, Petrie Museum of Egyption and Sudanese Archaeology and the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Science Collections.
- from the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Centre for Languages and International Education (CLIE) (login may be required).
- Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Culture Resources
- Ìý
- Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Short CoursesÌý
- Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Press
- Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Play: podcasts, videos and live broadcasts from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's students and researchers.
- : allows students and staff to use blogging for teaching and learning purposes.
- Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Special Collections
- Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê on other platforms
- : The mikrotax.org website currently hosts three main databases - , and sharing the same system but with separate identities.
- (SoundCloud)
- UK
- Glasgow Caledonian University:
- : funded by JISCÌýand the HEA.
- Open University: : catalogueÌýcovering applications and platforms that can be relevant for teaching and learning.
- University of Cambridge:
- (DoITPoMS)
- University of Edinburgh:
- University of Leicester:
- University of Nottingham:
- University of Southampton:
- International
- Kyoto University:
- (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)Ìý
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):Ìý
- University of British Columbia:
- University of the Phillipines:
- Yale University:Ìý
- Images
- - select Tools > Usage rights, then filter by licence
- (login required)
Using OERs
Find OER and open content that is relevant and suitable for the teaching content you want to tailor and/or create. These can include diagrams which illustrate a certain point, or a presentation that you can adapt for your students.
- Identify and understand licences
Once you have found an OER you want to use, you need to determine what permissions are needed to use that item and follow the terms of that items license.
Often, a resource will have a attributed to it; this will indicate whether the OER can be copied, and/or re/used for commercial purposes, and/or modified, and/or require attribution, and/or must be shared with the same licence.
- Third-party content and obtaining permission
Third-party content is content that is licensed or owned by another person or organisation other than yourself. You can use third-party content in your OER as long as you have obtained permission to do so.
Where the licence and re/use information for an OER is not explicitly stated, you must obtain clarification and permission from the creator/owner of the teaching content before you use it.
It is your responsibility to retain permission information; the OER team and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Copyright Support Officer can provide support information.
- Including attributions
If you are using an OER and need to attribute the author, the Creative Commons Wiki page details . We recommend the following attributive text as a minimum citation.
Note: [italicised text within square brackets] defines properties must be selected and bold text indicates where hyperlinked information is required:Attribution[s]: [Document/image/presentation/etc.] [adapted/copied] from "[document title]" by [Author name] (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê), which is licensed under the [CC BY-SA 4.0/etc. licence].
You can also to create an attribution. You need to insert details such as the title, who created it, and which open licence is used, and the tool will build the attribution for you.