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Finding Open Content - New OER Africa resource
South African Institute for Distance Education and OER Africa

PublishedFebruary 2019
PublisherOER Africa
CountrySouth Africa, Africa

ABSTRACT
This is a short, simple tutorial to acquire the skills necessary to search for open content, decipher Creative Commons rights and permissions and evaluate the usefulness of Open Educational Resources (OER) for new purposes.

Table of Contents

Finding Open Content Tutorial
Welcome
Tutorial Objectives
Introduction: Search Protocol
What is Open Licensing?
What is Open Content?
How to Search for Open Content using Google
How to Conduct More Effective Online Searches
How to Search for Open Content using Creative Commons Search
How to Search for Open Content in YouTube
How to Search for Content in Open Repositories
How to Evaluate Open Content
Summary
Attribution and Credits
OER for Study Skills

Keywords attribution · evaluation · open content · open content search · open licensing · open repositories · YouTube

Rights©2019 OER AfricaAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
URLhttps://www.oerafrica.org/book/welcome
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