Welcome to the new BC gateway to Open Educational Resources.

Here you will find FREE TO USE learning resources that you can use to supplement your own course materials or learning. Some of these are from BC-based projects while others are from Open Educational Resource projects from around the world.

http://www.wikipremed.com/

Passed on to us by its creator, John Wetzel, the WikiPremed MCAT course is a “donationware” site (open access but does ask for a donation if you find yourself replying on it heavily) to help students prepare for the MCAT test.

Tags: medical, premed.

http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct/2010/03/26/finding-openly-licensed-images-for-teaching-and-learning-materials

Helpful post by Michael Paskevicius that lists a number of specialized image search engines that will help you find free and openly licensed images for use in your teachind and learning

Tags: Images.

<a href=”http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20559/”>http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20559/</a>.

In a wonderful demonstration of ‘walking the talk,’ Dr. Charles Severance of the University of Michigan remixed an existing open textbook, <a href=”http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html”>Think Python: How to Think like a Computer Scientist</a>, in only 11 days to produce a new textbook for his class, ones students could print out for $10 using a local print-on-demand kiosk on campus.

Tags: computer science, python, remix, reuse.

http://code.google.com/edu/

Google has released code and curriculum in partnership with a number of US universities in the hopes of bringing contemporary coding practices into more university computer science curriculum. The materials are available for free under a Creative Commons license.

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http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1008

If you are thinking about trying to get “openness” started at your institution, the students in David Wiley’s grad course, “IPT 692R: Open Education Policy Seminar” have done you a HUGE favour by compiling these Open Access and OER Policy Reviews. They have surveyed many of the leading institutions and identified salient aspects of their policies for others to learn from or emulate, a huge time saver when considering the policy complexities that can be involved with starting a formal project on campus.

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