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| Name | URL | Description |
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| Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) | www.col.org/OER | CoL provides a Google Custom search, which will initially return all OCW and OER results from the higher-education institutions and OER repositories that have been selected. Once on the results page, users can refine their search further by selecting only OCWs or only OERs or only OCWs from certain regions. They also provides the Yahoo Pipes search field, to help users find specific OCWs. |
| Discover Ed | http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search | This search facility is provided by Creative Commons to help users find OER. |
| Folksemantic | www.folksemantic.com | Browse and search over 110,000 Open Education Resources (OERs). “This is an open educational resource recommender. There’s also a website widget and a Firefox extension. The system basically provides access to NSDL resources, but also Johns Hopkins, MERLOT and MIT-OCW resources. OER Recommender now has real-time analysis of OER resources related to other web pages (eg. Amazon). It’s all free and open source, and the code is available”. |
| Freelearning–Search for OER sites | http://freelearning.bccampus.ca/searchOER.php | This Google Custom Search Engine allows users to focus their search to sites which have already been identified by Freelearning as high quality OER, reducing the clutter of a generic Google search. |
| Google OCW | http://opencontent.org/googleocw | This custom search engine allows users to focus their search on finding OCW. |
| OER Recommender | www.oerrecommender.org | OER Recommender makes it easy for OER providers to provide links to related resources. It links users to OER related to web pages you are browsing. |
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