Title: Activity 1.2 - Searching for OERs in recognized repositories
Course: Working with Open Educational Resources (OERs) > Section: Topic 1: Open Educational Resources (OER) Concepts

Activity 1.1 - Searching for OERs in Recognized repositories

Aim: To search for and locate OERs in your academic discipline or sub-discipline from well-known repositories.

Motivation: To become conversant with OER repositories in order to locate resources to use in our own teaching

Tools: Discussion forum; Internet search engine (e.g. Google);

Resources: List of common OER repositories and

http://www.oerafrica.org/find-oer/oer-repositories

OER Searching Video

What to do:

- Visit (but do not be limited to) the OER repositories in the resource list and search for OER that are relevant to your academic discipline.
- You should apply the searching strategies that you learned through the Power Searching with Google activity in module 1 and/or use the keyword + creative commons technique within your search engine to broaden the scope of your findings.

How:

Collate and share your search findings and links by posting to a discussion forum. The information to be  included in your results should  contain:

- Subject header: Write the OER topic or subtopic that you discovered.
- The actual name of the repository and the URL of the resource  discovered
- A short (1 line/sentence) description of the resource:
  - Name your own course or module within which you think you may be able to make use of the resources.
  - Describe the relevance of this resource to your course
  - Would you need to adapt it or could you use as it is?

Duration: Expect to spend about one hour on this activity

Feedback:

- Peer Review (You can follow through the discussion forum for feedback from peers )
- Read and respond to at least one other person's contribution
- Read the other peoples’ responses to your own contribution and reflect on the comments

Assessment:

Completion of this activity will count towards your course portfolio