Finding Open Content - New OER Africa resource
| Published | February 2019 |
| Publisher | OER Africa |
| Country | South 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) |
| URL | https://www.oerafrica.org/book/welcome |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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