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Advanced internet searching to find Open Educational Resources
Southgate, Nicole

PublishedOctober 2012
Type of workTraining materials
PublisherUCT OpenContent, University of Cape Town
CountrySouth Africa, Africa

ABSTRACT
This resource is aimed at teaching second year medical students how to do an advanced search for open educational resources (OER) and images, videos and audio clips with a Creative Commons license. It also provides a list of links to useful online resources.

Keywords creative commons licences · EDU · Education Development Unit · free · health sciences · higher education · medical · open education · Open Educational Resources · training materials · UCT · University of Cape Town

Languageen
Rightsby-nc-sa/2.5/za
URLhttp://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Health-Sciences/Advanced-internet-searching-to-find-Open-Educational-Resources-and-Creative-Commons
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