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* Teaching and learning materials that are freely accessible online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner.

* OER have Creative Commons (or similar open) licences which enable them to be (re)used and adapted with the permission of their creator(s).

# MIT who have shared over 2,000 of their courses at: http://ocw.mit.edu

# The Open University has shared 5% of its catalogue at: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

# JISC has an OER Toolkit at: https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com

# Curriki is sharing K12 resources at: http://www.curriki.org/

# The Open High School Utah are the first secondary school to share their curriculum as OER at: http://www.openhighschool.org/

# Oxford University have a collection of open podcasts at: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open? sort_by=name&sort_order=ASC&items_per_page=All

* ORBIT is a collaborative project aimed at using and sharing OER with a focus on interactive teaching of STeM subjects in primary and secondary education.  

* A Resource Bank to collate STeM OER for teachers, training schools and others.

* An open course book with selected OER arranged under pedagogical themes for different year groups in primary and secondary education

* Sharing resources you already have.

* Developing with us the resources you need.

* Creating/taking part in the digital open book.

* To improve the quality and accessibility of teacher education and classroom resources.

* To create tools to enhance your own teaching.

* To showcase the Faculty expertise and leadership in ITE.

* To provide support to educators and student teachers outside Cambridge University, including colleagues in schools.

* Ideas for interactive activities or pedagogical approaches (such as using manipulatives in an activity aimed at developing understanding of arithmetic, a plan for a scientific investigation...)

* Classroom resources (such as lesson plans, presentations/IWB flipcharts, card sorts, GeoGebra files...)

* Teacher education resources (such as session outlines, class / group discussion prompts...)