Find Your Fit

This Activity was created February 6, 2018 by Ontario Extend (@extend)

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Open Educational Resource Repositories are full of learning objects, from the smallest (e.g., graph, article) to the largest (e.g., captured lectures, entire courses) shared by colleagues from around the globe. Some offer objects for all disciplines, and others are discipline-specific, often having grown from one department at one institution with a commitment to sharing its knowledge and then allowing it to grow beyond its borders. The ones listed below are fully introduced in the Spotlight on Repositories section of the Curator Module but these will give you a helping hand to complete this activity. Take some time and explore the repositories listed to find resources that are connected to your course content or interests.

Try out the search strategies you’ve practiced. Rather than just using your normal vocabulary, consider synonyms and terms other educators and experts may have used.
If a repository has advanced search capabilities, explore how you might optimize those capabilities. Be sure to jot down your search strategies for your activity response. HINT: A mind map is a great tool to plot your search and ensure you cover all the bases.
Pay close attention to which of the repositories have advanced search capabilities, and explore how you might optimize those capabilities.

To do:

Curate three (or more) OERs to support learners’ understanding of an element or concept for a course.
BONUS: If you want to challenge yourself and better suit your learners, choose more than one type of media. For major concepts, it is a good idea to source resources from print, audio, and visual information. These provide learners with choice and help solidify challenging concepts by providing multiple points of access.
Enter the link for the best resource you found in the “Web Location” field as your submission on the Find Your Fit activity response page.
After you make your submission, save the web address to your response (found in the green confirmation box) so you can use it later for your badge submission form.

Places to search

Referatories

OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) – https://oasis.geneseo.edu/
Mason OER Metafinder(MOM) – https://oer.deepwebaccess.com/oer/desktop/en/search.html

General Repositories

MERLOT – https://www.merlot.org/
CORE – https://core.ac.uk
eCampusOntario Open Textbook Library – https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca
MIT Open Courseware – https://ocw.mit.edu/educator
Public Domain Review – https://publicdomainreview.org

Discipline Specific Repositories

Mathematics and Sciences (University of Colorado at Boulder) – https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations
Nursing (Montgomery College) – http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/edu/department.aspx?id=8522
Business (MIT Sloan School) – https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/
English as a Foreign Language (Open Education Database) – http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/50_essential_resources_for_esl_students/
Humanities (Harvard University) – http://justiceharvard.org
Open Culture – http://www.openculture.com

This activity is part of the Spotlight on Repositories section of the Curator Module.

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https://bank.ecampusontario.ca/response/oer-search-results-alissa/

OER Search Results – Alissa

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Find your fit: effective communication strategies in healthcare setting
by Sam Gennidakis (@SGennidakis)

Topic : effective communication strategies in healthcare setting I used OER websites and search engines to find material to support activities or readings for students my professional practice course to help students build effective communication skills and strategies for their future work in the healthcare setting. The following three OERS were obtained by search terms more… »
OER Repository for Human Resource Management – Carolyn Nesbitt-Larking
by Carolyn Nesbitt-Larking (@Carolyn)

Cover Open library ECampus Ontario https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/71 Open Text Library https://oercommons.org/browse?f.keyword=human-resources OER Commons
Early Modern Women’s History Resources
by Rebecca MacAlpine (@rebecca.macalpine)

Three Resources The Youth of Early Modern Women https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25957/1/1004126.pdf Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/79ce0b26-844c-4f3c-80a4-6965c41ddcae Annotations in A perfect discovery of witches https://dp.la/item/be36d8b267aa454753705814ceb2e8d7
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by Afshan Jabeen (@ajabeen)

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by anh lam (@anhlam)

I am not familiar with most of the repositories shared and glad to try them out. I recently had a faculty ask about authentic assessments so I am using this topic for this module. My search strategy was limited since this topic is very narrow. I searched authentic assessment in the repositories. Some repositories did more… »
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by Rena Gandham (@rgandham)

Please see the attached document for Activity 2 – Find Your Fit
FIND YOUR FIT
by winton cape (@winton)

I was looking for information for a course titled ‘Business Intelligence and Emerging Technology’; I needed to find a text and activities for this course. Searching some of the resources this is what I found that might make a good fit… BOOK – Possible Course Text PDF – Career Trends These are possible resources that more… »
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by Oday Aswad (@odayaswad)

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by Peter Sheedy (@PeterS)

I was looking for something that would help students with budgeting concepts. I did searches on Oasis, Merlot and Mason using phrases such as: budget budget or budgeting Budget and common – looking for something that might talk about common errors Budget and common errors I found 3 useful resrouces Flashcards Quiz https://quizlet.com/23783899/acct-ch-7-8-budgeting-quiz-flash-cards/ more… »

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