Finding Open Education Resources

What are Open Education Resources (OER)? OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge. Hewlett Foundation Open Education Resources opens in a new window.

Finding OER Easily:

The Lucknow-CSULB collaborative has organized a variety OER collections that can easily discovered at the Hewlett-supported OER Consortium opens in a new window and OER Commons opens in a new window as well as MERLOT’s open educational digital library services and resources.

In addition to the Hewlett-supported OCW, the Lucknow-CSULB collaborative will integrate MERLOT opens in a new window (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching,) into its awareness and assessment phase. The continuously growing MERLOT collection contains over 18,000 free learning objects (from modules to online courses) across a wide range of disciplines with over 3,500 in teacher preparation. MERLOT brings over 10 years experience in OER digital library services.

Finding OER in MERLOT’s collections

This section of the website provides links useful for learning about Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, Faculty Development, and more using online resources. University of Lucknow faculty can learn how peers in different disciplines are using digital learning objects and other online resources in their courses.. In addition, links to useful sites for teaching online are provided.

MERLOT OER on Teacher Education

Find peer-reviewed online materials by clicking on the links.
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MERLOT OER on Educational Leadership

Online Resources valuable for research on educational leadership and reform, including both P-12 and community college education.
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MERLOT OER on Faculty Development

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Search Online Collection of All CSU Libraries

The CSU libraries collaborate to acquire the highest quality and most valued library resources. They have also developed online services to search, find, and request any of the library resources across all the CSU campuses. Search the entire collection of all CSU libraries opens in a new window

Scholarship of Teaching with Technology

MERLOT Journal for Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT): opens in a new page Free online articels on Strategies and outcomes for successful online learning and teaching.

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Hewlett Leadership in OER

Discover a variety of OER collections provided by the Hewlett-supported OER Consortium opens in a new window and OER Commons opens in a new window

MERLOT Teacher Education opens in a new window

Welcome to the MERLOT Teacher Education Portal, an educational resource for teaching and learning..

MERLOT Faculty Development opens in a new window

Welcome to the MERLOT Faculty Development Portal, the gateway to educational resources for all your teaching-with-technology needs.

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A CSU "Teaching and Learning Commons."

Science Education Teaching Commons for California opens in a new window

The Science Education Teaching Commons for California is a community of California’s K-12 Science Teachers and university Science Teacher Educators who advance and promote the scholarship of teaching and learning science through sharing of ideas, practices, and information, and resources.