OER teacher education resources

This page provides a register of OER providers in the teacher education area, links to OER search engines, and other aggregate sites, allowing you to find further resources.

OER providers

UK based

• The OpenLearn project (Open University) with a specific link to the Education topic

• The VITAL project (Open University & eSkills UK) an innovative professional development programme for teachers

• The OER Repository (University of Leicester) includes specific genetics OER for primary/secondary teaching

Europe

• The Compass project (University of Nottingham & others) offers primary/secondary Maths materias for teachers

• The Sharing Learning Objects in an Open Perspective SLOOP project (EU funded Consortium) Teacher Training materials

• The Connect the teachers to TEach and reach the NEt GENeration TENEGEN project (EU funded Consortium) Moodle modules relating to ICT teaching

Africa

• The TESSA project (Open University, UK & 10 African countries) offers primary materials in English & multiple African languages

• The AVU OER repository (African Virtual University) plus a link to the ICT integration in Education page & the Teacher Education page

• The Thutong Education Portal (South Africa) delivering information, curriculum, & support materials to the South African schooling & FET College community

Asia

• coming soon...

Australasia

• coming soon...

USA

• The Open High School of Utah

• The National Repository of Online Courses NROC (Monterey Institute for Technology and Education MITE)

• The Free Reading Network (multiple stakeholders) a reading intervention program for grades pK-6 & includes lessons & ideas

Global OER

• The Global Learning Portal (multiple stakeholders) to improve education outcomes in developing countries through the use of collaboration technologies

• The International Teacher Educators Community ITEC portal (MOFET, Israel) a global research, curriculum & program development for Teacher Educators

Related UK Higher Education materials

The Higher Education STEM OER wiki - guidance on OER in Science, Technology & Engineering from JISC funded projects

OER Search Engines & aggregate sites

Use key words or tags to find teacher education resources for your subject:

The OER Dynamic Search Engine an opportunity to search multiple OER sites in one place

The OER Commons project (ISKME, California) Find Free-to-Use Teaching and Learning Content from Around the World plus a direct link to the science as inquiry results

The Xpert project (University of Nottingham) enabling a search of more than 300,000 OER

Others...

• Flickr, Finding CC licenced images on Flickr

• Wikipedia

Specific teacher education external resources can be found in Category:External Resource.

Archived government sites relating to teacher education

• http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110202093118/http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/
• http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101021152907/http://www.ttrb.ac.uk/
• http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101021152907/http://www.Multiverse.ac.uk/

Free teacher education, but not openly licensed, resources

• The NRICH project (University of Cambridge) enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners
• The T-Media project (University of Cambridge) Exploring Teacher Mediation of Subject Learning with ICT: A Multimedia Approach

• The Dialogue & Interactive Whiteboard project (University of Cambridge)