OER Africa Tutorial

This is a really great tutorial on the different types of open educational and has several really useful resources linked throughout it. It does a really good job of describing the differences between creative commons licenses and types of open educational resources.


  • MIT OCW (Open Courseware)
    • Collection of extremely well made free and openly licensed post-secondary courses.
    • Particularly useful for courses in STEM, but has courses in a large range of fields
    • VERY large variety of courses at undergraduate and graduate levels
  • Coursera
    • Large collection of MOOCs (Massive open online courses)
    • Can often reward students with certificates and documentation upon finishing a course
  • BC Campus Open Textbook Repository
    • Really accessible layout. Subjects are easy to find and sort by
    • Free textbooks are a phenomenal way of having textbooks to use as resources without requiring students or schools to spend large sums of money
    • Includes textbooks for trades which is fantastic. The trades often get left out of online resources.
    • Relatively new but really promising. Looking forwards to seeing how its library grows
  • CC Search
    • Really great option for searching for resources licensed under creative commons
    • Features a large range of search engines for various forms of media
    • Don’t need to swap between search engines and set up filters for content that is licensed to be used
  • OER Commons
    • Large resource of educational materials that are openly licensed
  • ShareEdBC
    • Content is specifically designed for the new BC curriculum
    • Can share resources with other teachers, creates a lot of potential for collective collaboration
  • Pexels
    • Free to use stock photos and videos
  • Unsplash
    • Free to use stock photos