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.

Image credit: "Puzzled" flickr photo by Brad Montgomery https://flickr.com/photos/bradmontgomery/4363410868 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

Example for "Find Your Fit":
https://bank.ecampusontario.ca/response/oer-search-results-alissa/

OER Search Results – Alissa

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147 Responses for this Activity

Find your Fit Accounting exercise
by Tatiana Sharipova (@note2tatiana)

For this task i was initially tried MIT OpenCourseWare, because i am more familiar with this tool. I found supplementary exercises that I can use for in class tasks and exams. I liked that all exercises came with answers, which make this source a great self-study and exam prep tool. The link to the sources more… »
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by Mark Shannelly (@mshannelly)

For this activity I found that more generalized search terms actually worked better for me. My initial searches of, “video game sound design” and “game sound design” did not provide any results. However, on OASIS I searched, “audio” and “sound design” which yielded useful material. When searching “audio” I first found a full course from more… »
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by Victoria Jackson (@victoriaj)

This was such an interesting exercise. I actually found that the various Boolean combinations often limited me too much in my searches, so it was difficult to find what I was looking for! I spent a fair amount of time going between the different OER repositories and referatories to find what I needed. I initially more… »
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by Stephanie Ferguson (@stpark)

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