OER in TVET Resources
The platforms and services listed below provide access to openly licensed content for TVET. (See also: websites offering Public Domain images).
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This collection is by no means an exhaustive list, and we plan to expand it continuously. Most of the services and platforms listed are not restricted to TVET, but we have tried to limit our selection to platforms that include content that is or may be relevant in TVET, even if a lot of the content is not specific to vocational education. Take YouTube as an example: While only a very small share of the service's content can be used in and for TVET, and only a few of these are openly licensed, it is arguably still the most important resource if you are looking for TVET-related online videos.
Please share any services and platforms you find missing with us and any other feedback you may have via oer.tvet(at)unesco.org.
Athabasca University Open Courseware
ocw.lms.athabascau.ca/
The Open Courseware site at Athabasca University offers its courses online open for anyone. Athabasca University is a recognized online and distance learning university in Canada.
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Courses include Biology, Distance Education, English, Health Administration, Health Disciplines, Humanities, Industrial Relations, Legal Studies, Math, OER University Courses, Science, and Spanish. Some contents under construction.
Contents: full/partial courses, books
- Language: English
- Target audience: Higher-Ed
- Author/Institution: Athabasca University (Public University, Canada)
- License: CC BY 3.0 Unported
BCcampus OpenEd (Open Textbook Collection)
open.bccampus.ca
Find free and open textbooks. They are original creations or major adaptations of existing works, funded by and published by BCcampus.
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Detailed information: The textbooks are available for free as online versions and in a variety of file formats (e.g., for eReaders, editable files like XML and HTML). Some open textbooks contain supplemental or ancillary materials (e.g. test banks, quizzes, PowerPoint slides, videos). Subjects of the textbooks include Arts, Business, Education, Health, Recreation/Tourism, Sciences, Social Sciences, Support Resources, Trades and Upgrading Programs.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: PowerPoint slides, videos and quizzes
- Language: English
- Target audience: Higher-Ed
- Author/Institution: BC Campus (Canada)
- License: CC BY 4.0
BX businessXplainer
www.businessxplainer.com
BX was started in 2018 and aims to become a global community for lifelong free business learning and useful contacts. The basic idea of the service is to provide a collaboration platform that provides the opportunity to collect, organize and share free business learning content and to build a useful business community that educates and connects people and organizations for business. The service covers areas such as business planning, procurement, marketing, and logistics.
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Detailed information: From the about section: "At BX, teachers, students, employees and entrepreneurs can collectively gather and discuss the best free learning material in the world in a framework model that gives a common understandable context to how businesses operate. Teachers can select among free e-books, videos, audio files etc. that their students should go through when studying a specific subject. Universities can also share tests or self-assessments openly by adding links to them from each subject. Networking can take place between students, businesses and academia."
- Resource Type: Collaboration and sharing platform
- Contents: work/business-related content and courses
- Language: English
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: BX businessXplaner is a private charity
- Licenses: Users own all the text, feedback, and personal information they provide to BX, but also grant BX a nonexclusive license to it. BX-explainer texts are assigned an open Creative Commons license, CC-BY, which means that BX will be the creator of those texts and allow others to use, spread, re-mix, modify and build upon the texts even for commercial purposes.
CC Search
search.creativecommons.org
Search openly licensed (creative commons) content across different platforms offering multimedia content such as video, audio and images (e.g. YouTube, Wikimedia Commons, etc.)
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Detailed information: CC Search offers convenient access to a multitude of services including text, images, videos, audio resources. A prototype
CC Search beta is being developed that aims to make it easier to correctly reference such materials and thus to use, mix and remix them.
- Resource Type: Meta search engine
- Contents: web content, music, videos, images
- Language: English, multilingual version in development
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: Service hosted by Creative Commons (Non Profit Organization, USA/International)
- Licenses: all linked materials are under various open licenses as specified
Curriki
www.curriki.org
Create, share and explore K-12 contents.
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Detailed information: Educational materials provided by the Curriki community are peer-reviewed for quality and adherence to standards. Curricula and instructional materials are available for teachers, professional educators, students, lifelong learners, and parents. Users required to log in to access the resources. It is a portal with resources and allowing mixing/remixing/uploading of own resources. Users can create their own collections and rate available content.
- Resource Type: Portal
- Contents: texts, curricula and instructional materials
- Language: English, Spanish
- Target audience: K-12
- Author/Institution: Content partners-majority of them being institutions, Service hosted by Curriki (Non Profit Organization, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY-NC 3.0 (Default license)
Digital Green Community Videos
solutions.digitalgreen.org/videos/library/
Provides more than 5,000 (in 2017) locally relevant community videos in more than 50 languages. Contents are mostly from India. Categories of the videos include Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Health and Horticulture.
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Detailed information: Digital Green provides practical videos in collaboration with the grassroots partners and rural farmers themselves, allowing them to share knowledge with one another. Other related online services:
CoCo (Data collection and analysis, Username: guestuser Password: digitalgreen),
Training Courseware, and
Innovation Lab (experiments on new tools and approaches)
Special feature: VideoKheti - A responsive web application that provides access to the video library through an easy-to-navigate interface for low-literate farmers and extension workers on any device. The navigational layer uses graphics, audio, and touch interaction to make simple choices in crop, crop phase and activity to reach the desired video. Provided in Hindi and English.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: videos
- Language: English, Hindi
- Target audience: Rural farmers
- Author/Institution: Local farmers, people selected from the community. Service hosted by Digital Green (NGO, India/International)
- Licenses: CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 IN
DOER - Directory of Open Educational Resources
doer.col.org/
Gives access to OER collections provided by Commonwealth educational institutions. One of the collections is in the area of Technical and Vocational Skills Development (TVSD).
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Detailed information: The resources are available under following themes:
Higher education,
Open schooling,
Teacher education,
TVSD. The actual resources are hosted on the servers of the respective educational institutions.
- Resource Type: Referatory
- Contents: texts, videos, lectures
- Language: English
- Target audience: various
- Author/Institution: Service provided by Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (Intergovernmental Organization-IGO, Canada/International)
- Licenses: CC BY-SA
Google Search, filtered for "free-to-use" content
www.google.com
Google search offers an easy way to limit your query to openly licensed images: On the image tab you can click on the "Tools" button and filter by "usage right" e.g. pictures of welding that are open for reuse. But you can also limit any other Google search in such a way that only openly licensed materials (including OER) are shown. Here's an example of such an advanced search for welding related resources that are "free to use or share": Welding resources (see bottom, "narrow your results by usage rights"). Note that the filters are aligned with the CC license scheme.
Jorum (Jisc)
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/content/resources
The service offers learning and research resources across the higher education, further education and skills sectors. One outstanding TVET resource is the “Hairdressing Training”, featuring curriculum mapped hairdressing and barbering resources, created for and by further education and skills practitioners, featuring video tutorials and step-by-step guides.
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Detailed information: Jorum is a non-profit organization for digital services and solutions. Its focus is on enhancing UK higher education (HE) and further education (FE) teaching, learning and research and inspire its digital transformation. ”
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: videos, books, quiz, activities (related to hairdressing)
- Language: English
- Target audience: UK further and Higher-Ed
- Author/Institution: Jisc (Non Profit Organization, UK)
- Licenses: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Khan Academy
www.khanacademy.org
Offers learning materials for K-12 and higher education, directed at learners, teachers and parents. Practice exercises, instructional videos and personalized learning dashboard service offered.
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Detailed information: Available materials include Math, Science and engineering, Computing,
Entrepreneurship, and Test preparations. Partnered with institutions like NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, and MIT to offer specialized content. Users can contribute their ideas in the “
Community” section. Mobile application available.
Special feature: “Hour of code”: one-hour introduction to computer science and computer programming. Create animations, websites or databases (Check out the video)
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: videos, lectures, texts, exercises
- Language: primarily English, but interface and content (partly) available in large number of languages
- Target audience: K-12, Higher-Ed
- Author/Institution: Khan Academy (Non Profit Organization, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US (partly)
Knowledge to Work
knowledgetowork.com
The service provides information on career pathways, competency frameworks, and free and low-cost learning resources especially focused on Health Information Management, Information Technology, and Administrative Support Technology.
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The platform offers entry points for 1. Learners, 2. Job seekers and 3. Employers. The "Career Pathways Explorer" walks users through various pathways to a set of in-demand careers.
- Resource Type: Referatory
- Contents: courses, textbooks, presentations
- Language: English, Spanish
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: funded by TAACCCT
- License: mostly CC BY 4.0 , some content copyrighted
Learning Design Tool Australian Flexible Learning Framework
ldt.eworks.edu.au
LDT is a tool where you can design your own learning materials with the support of its guideline. Browse through its “Resources” and “Templates” to aid your creation of learning design.
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LDT consists of three main parts, Part A (learning design theories and online learning practices), Part B (develop an online learning design), and Part C (demonstrate storyboarding strategies).
- Resource Type: Portal
- Contents: texts, documents
- Language: English
- Target audience: teachers in all education level
- Author/Institution: Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (Commonwealth of Australia, Australia)
- Licenses: AEShareNet-S Licence
LibreTexts
chem.libretexts.org
LibreTexts claims to be the most visited online OER textbook project, covering subjects like: Chemistry, Biology, Geosciences, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Social Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Agriculture, Photosciences, and Humanities.
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Detailed information: The LibreTexts project is a multi-institutional collaborative effort to improve education at all levels of higher learning by developing Open Access Resources.
Contents: texts, exercises, worksheets, simulations and demonstrations
Language: English
Target audience: Higher-Ed
Author/Institution: Service hosted by LibreTexts, directed by UC Davis (Public University, USA)
Merlot
www.merlot.org
The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific free and open learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages. Materials are contributed and used by an international education community.
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Detailed information:
The MERLOT Collection is made up of over 40,000 materials in 19 different material type categories. including Science and Technology, Social Science, Workforce Development, etc.
Mobile app provided.
Contents: various, including courseware, textbooks, tutorials, assignments and simulations
Language: English, offers translations
Target audience: Higher-Ed
Author/Institution: Materials contributed by the MERLOT member community. Service hosted by the California State University System’s MERLOT program (Public University, USA)
- Licenses: Under CC license, but some rights reserved
MIT OpenCourseWare
ocw.mit.edu
Browse free and open publication of materials from thousands of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum.
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Detailed information:
The MIT OpenCourseWare site offers educators and students access to full courses designed and taught by MIT professors. Users can access the entire course library and the entire course packet. Course packets include video interviews with professors, syllabus, outlines, readings, assignments, projects and related resources.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: audios, videos and textbooks
- Language: English, offers courses with subtitles. Translated videos offered in Chinese, Turkish, Spanish and Korean.
- Target audience: Higher-Ed
- Author/Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Private University, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
NDLA
ndla.no
Offers open educational resources for secondary school level in Norway. Vocational contents can be found under the “Content” category.
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Detailed information: The Norwegian Digital Learning Arena (Nasjonal digital læringsarena) is a joint enterprise operating on behalf of the county councils in Norway. Its aim is to develop and publish high quality, internet-based OER in subjects taught at upper secondary school level and make these freely available.
Special feature: Career videos in 9 sectors (Building and Construction, Design, Arts and Crafts, Electricity and Electronics, Health and Social Care, Media and Communication, Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry, Restaurant and Food Processing, Service and Transport, Technical and Industrial Production)
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: books, animation, plans and exams
- Language: Bokmål; Nynorsk; English (some content)
- Target audience: Upper secondary school level in Norway
- Author/Institution: The State and the 18 counties of Norway, Service hosted by NDLA (Public service institution, Norway)
- Licenses: Majority of content under CC license
National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
nsdl.org/
Collection of open resources specifically focused on STEM (sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics) area.
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Detailed information: The National Science Digital Library aims to provide high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings. Browse through their “advanced search service” for more detailed and specific data.
- Resource Type: Meta search engine
- Contents: various including videos and texts
- Language: English
- Target audience: K-12, Higher-Ed, career/technical and adult education.
- Author/Institution: Service powered by Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) (Non Profit Organization, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
NPTEL
nptel.ac.in
Learn, copy and download NPTEL’s 900+ science and engineering courses.
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NPTEL is an acronym for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is an initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course contents in engineering and science.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: video and web courses
- Language: English
- Target audience: Higher-Ed, professional-Ed, distance-Ed
- Author/Institution: Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government Organization, India)
- Licenses: CC BY-SA
Oasis
oasis.col.org/
The Commonwealth of Learning’s (COL) online repository features some excellent openly licensed flexible learning resources in key TVET areas. Most of the documents are pdf files.
OER Commons
www.oercommons.org/
Public digital library of OER at a variety of levels and subjects. Allows educators to explore, create, and collaborate with each other to improve curriculy. The platform offers an authoring tool to help build OER and combine them in the form of lesson plans and courses.
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Detailed information: Search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons' growing collection of over 50,000 (1/2018) high-quality OER. The contents include full university courses, interactive mini-lessons and simulations, adaptations of existing open work, open textbooks and K-12 lesson plans, worksheets, and activities. Interesting links include:
Agriculture,
Automotive Technology and Repair,
Electronic technology,
Film and music production,
Graphic design,
Manufacturing,
Maritime science,
Welding. Anyone can create or (re)mix Open Educational Resources, lesson plans and courses with OER Common’s publishing tool, “
Open Author.”
Special feature: Hub is a custom resource center on OER Commons where groups can create and share collections associated with a project or organization.
- Resource Type: Meta search engine
- Contents: various including lectures, texts, illustrations and activities
- Language: English
- Target audience: K-12, Higher-Ed
- Author/Institution: OER institutions, powered by Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) (Non Profit Organization, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
OER Africa
www.oerafrica.org/findoer
Browse OER created by African institutions of higher education. OER Africa supports higher education institutions across Africa in the development and use of OER.
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Detailed information: OER Africa focuses on agriculture education, teacher education, health education and academic skills for higher education. Most of the materials are pdf or word documents. Major topics include Agriculture, Foundation, Health and Teacher Ed.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: research papers
- Language: English
- Target Audience: African institutions and learners in higher education
- Author/Institution: The South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) (Non Profit Organization, South Africa)
- Licenses: CC BY 4.0 (except otherwise noted)
Open Learn
www.open.edu/openlearn/skills-for-work
OpenLearn provides numerous courses in different sectors. “Skills for work” and “Skills for study” are found under the “Skills” category. Examples of vocational training courses: My career goal: Nail technician, Manufacturing
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Detailed information: The free learning platform from the Open University aims to break the barriers to education by providing free educational resources to millions of learners around the world. Open Learn offers eight subject categories (Money & Business, Education & Development, Health, Sports & Psychology, History & The Arts, Languages, Nature & Environment, Science, Maths & Technology, Society, Politics & Law) with articles, videos and games. The service offers badges and statements of participation as evidence of learning.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: various including videos, articles, activities and audios
- Language: English
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: Academic experts and guest contributors managed by OpenLearn, hosted by The Open University (Public university, UK)
- Licenses: traditional copyright and CC BY-NC-SA (partly)
OpenLearn Create (LabSpace)
www.open.edu/openlearncreate/
Offers free and open courses for online and offline use and allows users to create, publish and share their own free courses in areas like "Skills for work", "General Life skills", "Skills for learning", or "Workforce Development. Some examples of skills training: Caring for adults, Computing for Schools – Communication and Networks, and Health Education and Training (HEAT - training courses for healthcare workers across sub-Saharan Africa)
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Detailed information: OpenLearn Create is an open educational platform allowing individuals and organizations to publish their open content, open courses and resources. It is Moodle-based and has tools for collaboration, reuse and remixing. Under the
free course tab, links like: select a subject, skills, learning levels, and resource length, are found. Check “
Collections” section to discover groups of open courses created by different institutions. Allows mixing/remixing/uploading of own resources.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: moodle based, texts
- Language: English
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: User driven (third party), Service managed by OpenLearn and hosted by The Open University (Public university, UK)
- Licenses: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, except for third party materials
Open SUNY Textbooks
textbooks.opensuny.org
SUNY’s OER service allows students to freely and openly access its textbooks. It supports the development of new, original low-cost openly-licensed learning materials. The materials are constantly created and shared.
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- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: books
- Language: English
- Target audience: Higher-Ed
- Author/Institution: State University New York (SUNY) (Public University, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY 4.0 International
OpenStax CNX
cnx.org/
Serves as an online library containing educational materials at all levels, from K-12 to higher education.
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Detailed information: OpenStax CNX, formerly called Connexions, is a global repository of educational content provided by volunteers. Books in arts, business, humanities, mathematics and statistics, science and technology, and social science are available. It is free to view, download, or share materials in the repository. Accounts are only required for creating content, including modules, collections, and lenses. Mobile application available.
Special feature: All content is built in a simple semantic HTML5 format rich with built in accessibility features to ensure it can all be read by everyone. Use “lense system” to view or contribute reviews of the contents. Allows mixing/remixing/uploading of own resources.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: course materials, books
- Language: various
- Target audience: K-12, college level, professionals
- Author/Institution: University professors and partner institutions; users can also create the content. A service hosted by Rice University (Private non-profit university, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY 4.0 (except otherwise noted)
Open Textbook Library
open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
Access and download textbooks in different subjects. Freely use, adapt and distribute.
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Detailed information: Subjects offered: Accounting & Finance, Business, Computer Science & Information Systems, Economics, Education, Engineering, Humanities, Journalism, Media Studies & Communications, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Student Success.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: textbooks
- Language: English
- Target audience: Higher-Ed
- Author/Institution: Service hosted by Center for Open Education, University of Minnesota (Public University, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY 4.0 except otherwise noted
PhET Interactive Simulations
phet.colorado.edu/
PhET offers interactive simulations for Science and Math developed on the basis of education research. The intuitive and game-like environment encourages students to learn through exploration and discovery.
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Detailed information: The project designs, develops, and releases over 125 (12/2017) free interactive simulations for educational use in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and mathematics. The simulations have been translated into over 65 different languages, including Spanish, Chinese, German, and Arabic. The simulations are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded. Mobile application is available.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: lectures, texts
- Language: various
- Target audience: College level science and math teachers and students.
- Author/Institution: PhET Interactive Simulations team hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder (Public university, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY
Procomún
procomun.educalab.es
Search, view and download educational and learning objects in different formats. The contents are created by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and contributors of the educational community.
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Users can filter by Knowledge area, Learning context, Collection, Resource type, Language, Tags and Regional node. Most of the contents are in Spanish. Users can also get involved in discussions and surveys through its
Social network.
- Resource Type: Portal
- Contents: texts, illustrations, presentations, course materials, simulations
- Language: English, Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Portuguese
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (MECD) (Government Organization, Spain)
- Licenses: Some under CC license Spain
Saylor Academy
learn.saylor.org
Learn from its free, online, and self-paced courses. Offers nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels.
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Detailed information: Course topics offered are: Art History, Biology, Business Administration, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Science, Economics, English, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Professional Development, Psychology, Sociology, Study Skills, Saylor Meta-Courses and Partner and Certificate Programs.
Mobile application provided.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: texts
- Language: English
- Target audience: Higher-Ed
- Author/Institution: Saylor Academy (Non Profit organization, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY 4.0 Unported
Skills Commons
www.skillscommons.org
Browse through a comprehensive collection of workforce training materials created by over 700 community colleges across the United States. College course materials like lecture presentations and syllabus can be found. It is organized according to US Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes.
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Detailed information: Skills common is a US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program developed to provide free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. There is a wide variety of materials from syllabus, hybrid/blended courses, images and presentations to quizzes & tests.
Special feature: The “Industry Wheel” provides a comprehensive view of materials in the respective areas of industry.
- Resource Type: Search engine
- Contents: various including syllabus, texts, presentations and tests
- Language: English
- Target audience: Higher-Ed in US
- Author/Institution: SkillsCommons.org is designed and managed by the California State University and its MERLOT program for the Department of Labor’s TAACCCT program (Public service, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY 4.0 (except otherwise noted)
Smart Study
smart.study/blog/
Contains over 1000 open textbooks and learning resources for all subjects in high school and college level. “Study & Writing Tips for Smart Students.”
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Detailed information: Categories include Anthropology and Archeology, Art and Design, Biology and Genetics, Business, Chemistry, Computer Science and IT, Economics, Education, Engineering, English and Writing, History and Civilizations, Languages and Communication, Legal Studies, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Nursing and Health, Philosophy and Ethics, Physics and Astronomy, Political Science, Psychology, Sciences, Sociology, Statistics. The resources are mostly in pdf files, offered by linking to different OER sites, or book links. You can also get
career advice; how to write CV or how to improve your speaking skills and more.
- Resource Type: Referatory
- Contents: textbooks, website links
- Language: English; 中文; Español; 日本語; Русский; Français; العربية
- Target audience: college and high school students or educators
- Author/Institution: Service hosted by Smart Study (For-profit organization)
- Licenses: Some under CC license
TED-Ed
ed.ted.com/
TED-Ed Original lessons feature the words and ideas of educators brought to life by professional animators. The videos are accompanied by quizzes, additional resources and discussions.
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Detailed information: TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. “TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Ted-Ed supports education through producing a growing library of original animated videos, to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, to helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, to celebrating innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 250,000 teachers.”
Special feature: Check out videos on every single element of the periodic table (Periodic Videos). You can browse more interesting series of videos under “Series” section.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: videos, ideas, lessons
- Language: English; subtitle or transcript provided in various languages
- Target audience: informal (K-12, College level or others)
- Author/Institution: Service hosted by TED’s TED-Ed (Non Profit Organization, USA). Anyone can join by completing the form in ‘Get Involved’ section.
- Licenses: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
TESDA Online Program (e-tesda)
e-tesda.gov.ph/
Provides technical education and skills development services to a broader audience/wide range of users/all learners at a lesser cost. Offers vocational training courses such as Housekeeping NC II and Massage Therapy NC II.
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Detailed information: The TESDA Online Program (TOP) is an open educational resource that aims to make technical education more accessible to Filipino citizens through the use of information and communication technologies. Contents include: agriculture, automotive, electrical and electronics, entrepreneurship, human health/ health care, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration, information and communication technology, lifelong learning skills, maritime, social, community development and other services, tourism and TVET. ‘Log in’ required to access the resources.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: videos, courseware
- Language: English
- Target audience: Filipino citizens/ students, out-of-school youths, unemployed adults, local and overseas workers, and professionals
- Author/Institution: Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), under the Philippines Department of Labor and Employment (Government agency, Philippines)
- Licenses: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The Orange Grove
www.floridashines.org/orange-grove
Online collection of textbooks and educational materials available to students for free. Textbooks are available for a range of courses, from Precalculus to Oceanography to English Composition.
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Detailed information: The Orange Grove repository is Florida's digital repository for OER. The repository provides an environment for educators to search for, use, remix, share, and contribute educational resources. The repository can also be integrated with Learning Management Systems (e.g. Canvas, Blackboard, Desire 2 Learn). Materials are grouped under the following titles; Business & Consumer Science, Communication & Information, Education, Engineering & Technology, Health Science, Humanities, Mathematics, NC School of Science and Mathematics, Professional, Career & Technical, Science, Social Science and Visual & Performing Arts. Mixing/remixing/uploading of own resources allowed.
Special feature: printable 3D object model collection (OG3D)
- Resource Type: Meta search engine
- Contents: texts, instructional resources, text books, courseware
- Language: English
- Target audience: K-12 and Higher-Ed
- Author/Institution: Service hosted by Florida Virtual Campus (Public university, USA)
- Licenses: Some under CC license
TVET Academy
www.tvetacademy.org
The TVET Academy offers entire courses of TVET related instructions and guides by way of video and pdf files. The amount of available training contents vary depending on country and theme. (The service is in development, some of the links under the tab "Area of activity" are not yet available).
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Detailed information: TVET Academy provides vocational training materials for disadvantaged youth in developing countries, through multimedia resources (primarily film) for teachers and students, which are usable in workshops on a projector even without internet or computer. TVET academy provides training on entrepreneurship, sustainable development and life skills. Examples of available jobs are (July 2017):
Hotel and Catering,
Cook,
Building and Public Works,
Masonry,
Electricity.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: presentation videos, lectures
- Language: English, Spanish, French
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: TVET Academy (Non Profit Organization, France)
- Licenses: not quite clear, they claim to be OER
UNESCO-UNEVOC Learning and Working campaign
www.unevoc.unesco.org
This set of short films created by UNESCO-UNEVOC shows mostly traditional techniques and skills (such as working with metal, wood, cement, pottery, or using small machines or needle & thread) in Haiti. The Skills Development Package “Learning and Working” was produced with the intention to motivate people living in adverse economic conditions to enroll in technical and vocational education and training courses and take up self-employment activities in order to improve their economic situation.
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Detailed information: The aim is to help facilitate the organization and implementation of awareness and motivation campaigns for marginalized groups in least developed countries. The Skills Development Package for Learning and Working consists of an Overview, Flyer, Information for Stakeholders, Guide to being a Successful Facilitator, Activity Check List, Videos, and Booklets.
The package can be ordered free of charge from mailto:unevoc@unesco.org.
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: videos and booklets
- Language: English and French, DVD additionally available in Portuguese and Creole.
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: UNESCO-UNEVOC (International Organization, Bonn)
- Licenses: CC BY (video - there are some license restrictions on some of the music)
Vimeo
vimeo.com/
Upload, share, discover, and download videos to the platform. A video management tool allows for uploading high quality videos and assigning open licenses. The search tool offers a filter to find videos according to the license applied (click on "more filters" on the left for that function).
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Detailed information: Vimeo was created by a group of filmmakers who wanted an easy and beautiful way to share videos. It is a portal with resources and allows mixing/remixing/uploading and (other than YouTube) downloading of resources.
- Resource Type: Portal
- Contents: videos
- Language: English, Español, Deutsch, Français, 日本語, Português, 한국어
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: Service hosted by Vimeo (For-profit organization, USA)
- Licenses: Some under CC license
Wikibooks
en.wikibooks.org
Browse and edit open-content textbooks. Wikibooks has two sub-projects; Wikijunior for children until age 12 and the Cookbook a collection of recipes and culinary topics.
Wisconsin Online Resource Center
www.wisc-online.com/
Offers contents ranging from corporate learning solutions to instructional programs. Wisc-online offers several technical learning materials like; barber/cosmetology, aeronautics and welding.
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Detailed information: The themes provided are:
Basic computer skills course,
Interface(Information Technology), Career cluster, Formal science, Humanities, Natural science, Social science. Besides learning materials, Wisc-online offers various types of educational games (Arcade); visitors can also create games on their own. Check also “
Image library” for free images, animations, audio, and video clips.
Special features:
- Gammaplus (free mobile apps to help learner master skills and concepts related to jobs in manufacturing; also can be used through computer)
- Basic computer skills MOOC (login needed)
- Career clusters (videos and courseware in 16 different sectors)
- Computer science (career skills or computer programming)
- Resource Type: Repository
- Contents: videos, photos, animations
- Language: English
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: Created by Wisconsin’s Technical Colleges and maintained by Fox Valley Technical College (Non Profit Organization, USA)
- Licenses: CC BY-NC 4.0
XPERT (Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory)
xpert.nottingham.ac.uk/
Browse open educational resources with its search engine.
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Detailed information: The aim of XPERT is to progress the vision of a distributed architecture of e-learning resources for sharing and re-use. Relevant links can be found by clicking links under the popular tags. (Some of the pages under construction)
Example: welding
- Resource Type: Referatory
- Contents: links to different OER websites
- Language: English
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: contributors, Service hosted by the University of Nottingham (Public university, UK)
- Licenses: links only to openly licensed resources
XtLearn.net
xtlearn.net/NLN
Offers a substantial range of e-learning content. Vocational training contents can be found under the “Vocational” section. Example: Hair and Beauty and Catering and Hospitality.
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Detailed information: “The National Learning Network (NLN) was a UK national partnership program designed to increase the uptake of Information Learning Technology (ILT) across the learning and skills sector in England.” NLN Materials, now, are being hosted on XtLearn. Users can also gather learning resources from anywhere on the web and mix, craft or share with others. It is a portal with resources and allows mixing/remixing/uploading of own resources.
- Resource Type: Portal Contents: videos, lectures
- Language: English
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: Service managed by XtLearn and hosted by the National Learning Network (NLN) (Public service program, UK)
- Licenses: CC BY-SA 3.0 (Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License)
YouTube
www.youtube.com/
YouTube is an ever growing video platform. While most of the videos have little educational value, there are still many that have the potential to be used for educational purposes or in training contexts, some of them openly licensed and thus legally downloadable. You can select to search for "Creative Commons" licensed videos by clicking ‘filter’ (top right) when a search result is displayed.
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The YouTube portal offers the possibility to mix/remix and upload own resources. There is, however, no official download function.
- Resource Type: Portal
- Contents: videos
- Language: various, also offers subtitles in different languages
- Target audience: informal
- Author/Institution: Service hosted by YouTube (For-profit organization, USA)
- Licenses: The "standard YouTube license" restricts reproduction or distribution in any other form, but cc-licensed videos can be edited, recompiled, changed or altered.
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