Find Your Fit

Find Your Fit

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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

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General Repositories

Discipline Specific Repositories

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

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182 Responses for this Activity

  • Response to the
    by Aaron Goldt (@agoldt)

    I searched for resources relating to cryopreservation of cell cultures. This is a topic I teach as asynchronous so external resources are valuable here if they can help enhance learning. The best resources for this tend to come from the companies themselves or from public health bodies. https://assets.thermofisher.com/TFS-Assets/LSG/manuals/D21111.pdf This is a document form a company more… »

  • Find Your Fit – Theranostics
    by Adam Zalewski (@azalewski)

    These resources are to be used for the field of theranostics. It is a quickly advancing field and textbooks often don’t show the whole picture. These are to help expand the discussion and research for new and emerging tracers for therapy.  https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/50301  Innovative Radiopharmaceuticals in Oncology and Neurology  The aim of this Research Topic was more… »

  • Find Your Fit –> MRI in Radiation Therapy
    by Rahul Mohla (@rmohla)

    Open educational resource repositories were utilized to provide extra resources to the learners regarding MRI Linacs. This is a novel topic within radiation therapy and the field is rapidly advancing to better utilize the advantages of MRI within the treatment of our cancer patients. You can find below how the OER’s were utilized to provide more… »

  • Sustainable Tourism Future Course
    by Mohammad Al Mamun (@mamunca2012)

    To enrich my students’ understanding of the symbiotic relationship between hospitality and tourism, I consistently seek out diverse and effective reading resources. By curating a variety of materials ranging from scholarly articles to industry reports and case studies, I ensure that students gain comprehensive insights into how these sectors intersect and complement each other. I more… »

  • 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

  • Find your fit activity
    by Afshan Jabeen (@ajabeen)

    Teaching and learning always go hand in hand. As a science professor, I teach various science courses at the college level. I consistently strive to offer the best resources to my students to enrich their learning experiences and promote academic excellence. Open Educational Resources (OERs) are invaluable assets in students’ learning journeys, and I make more… »

  • OERs for Authentic Assessments
    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… »

  • Activity 2 – Find Your Fit
    by Rena Gandham (@rgandham)

    Please see the attached document for Activity 2 – Find Your Fit

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