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

• The TTRB3 - which aims to make available the evidence base for teacher education and professional development including research and policy on teaching and learning, with contributions from teachers, researchers, teacher educators and other professionals.

Europe

• The Compass project (University of Nottingham & others) offers primary/secondary maths materials 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
• Teacher Education materials from http://www.oerafrica.org, see http://www.oerafrica.org/teachered/ or here.
• The AVU OER repository (African Virtual University) plus a link to the ICT integration in Education page & the Teacher Education page
  • http://www.scribd.com/AfricanVirtualUni
• The Thutong Education Portal (South Africa) delivering information, curriculum, & support materials to the South African schooling & FET College community
• See also ASKAIDS
• The OER4Schools project, OER4Schools
• The TESSA project (Open University, UK & 10 African countries) offers primary materials in English & multiple African languages
• Teacher Education materials from http://www.oerafrica.org, see http://www.oerafrica.org/teachered/ or here.
• The AVU OER repository (African Virtual University) plus a link to the ICT integration in Education page & the Teacher Education page
  • http://www.scribd.com/AfricanVirtualUni
• The Thutong Education Portal (South Africa) delivering information, curriculum, & support materials to the South African schooling & FET College community
• Siyavula, http://projects.siyavula.com/

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

• The Curriki project (Global Education & Learning Community & multiple partners) The K12 open curricula community empowering educators to deliver and share curricula

• The MIT Open Courseware site for teachers

• MIT Chemistry Videos and Materials

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

• wikiversity is devoted to learning resources, projects and research for all levels and styles of education including professional education.

• http://www.curriki.org/

Related UK Higher Education materials

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

About OER

• UNESCO/COL Guidelines on Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education

Open Textbooks for schools and educators

• CK-12 http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/
• Siyavula, http://projects.siyavula.com/
• Inclusive Learning Design Handbook from FLOE (flexible learning for open education)
• http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/booklist?cat=Education, http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/initiatives
• SA Department of Basic Education workbooks, Numeracy, Literacy, Life Skills (in English and local languages), up to grade 9, http://www.education.gov.za/WorkbookDownload/tabid/643/Default.aspx (Note that these are workbooks, not textbooks.
• A suite of college maths textbooks and workbooks available to download from Scottsdale Community College's Center for Open Resources in Education:

OER offline

http://www.ole.org/content/about-us

http://education-portal.com/articles/World_Possible_Brings_Education_Resources_to_Developing_Communities.html, http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/world-possible , http://pi.worldpossible.org/ http://rachel.worldpossible.org

ArkOS

eGranary

Image repositories

• Search Flickr and read about Creative Commons on Flickr
• Use the filter at the bottom to search Google for CC images
• Wellcome images has a fantastic collection of CC images
• NASA images may also be used with few restrictions

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 BUT be careful because if you type in teacher Education it returns 785,000,000 results...

• 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

• Search for CC licenced images in multiple places via Creative Commons

• The Teachers as Makers Teachers project

You can use custom search engines to search sets of sites:

• http://www.google.co.uk/cse/home?cx=008631174082973208937:umykkouecka (made for OER4Schools)
• http://www.scoop.it/t/edu-search (made by User:SimonKnight)

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

Google custom search for maths resources

http://www.google.co.uk/cse/home?cx=008631174082973208937:umykkouecka

Archived government sites relating to teacher education

• The National Strategies & Standards
• The Teacher Training Resource Bank TTRB or better yet, the TTRB3 which is a live website built on the TTRB model and OGL materials
• Multiverse was a website for teacher educators & student teachers addressing the educational achievement of pupils from diverse backgrounds
• The IoE's Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA) can be searched for archived content from across a range of Governmental agencies in all areas of the UK, and many long defunct agencies.

Free teacher education, but not openly licensed, resources

• Times Educational Supplement (tes) has a great collection of lesson resources contributed by organisations, teachers, etc.
• share my lesson.com provides space for teachers to share lesson resources with each other
• 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
• You may find Teachfind has valuable resources including many archived Government resources (e.g. Teachers TV, National Strategy, etc.).
• The Dialogue & Interactive Whiteboard project (University of Cambridge)
• The Thinking Together project at (University of Cambridge) offers resources for guiding group and whole class dialogue

Resources available from museums in the Cambridgeshire area

• Cambridge University Botanic Garden: http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/Botanic/Page.aspx?p=27&ix=2823&pid=2719&prcid=4&ppid=2719

• The Fitzwilliam Museum: http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/education/researchandpublications/

• Imperial War Museum Duxford: http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford/groups-schools

• The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum: http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/young.html

• Scott Polar Research Institute: http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/resources/

• The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences: http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/resources.html

• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: http://maa.cam.ac.uk/home/index.php?a=57&b=on-line%20projects&c=20