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A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Its purpose is to provide readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and some of the key issues to think about when exploring how to use OER most effectively. The second section is a more comprehensive analysis of these issues, presented in the form of a traditional research paper. For those who have a deeper interest in OER, this section will assist with making the case for OER more substantively. The third section is a set of appendices, containing more detailed information about specific areas of relevance to OER. These are aimed at people who are looking for substantive information regarding a specific area of interest. Originally published 2011; Revised 2015.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Commonwealth of Learning
Author:
Butcher Neil
Hoosen Sarah
Moore Andrew
Moore Derek
Date Added:
01/13/2020
CXC CSEC Computation - SO1
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The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Caribbean Secondary Education Curriculum (CSEC) mathematics syllabus has been used to guide the selection and sequencing of quality Open Education Resources (OER) to create a free textbook or online course. The resources have been collected and vetted by experienced mathematics teachers and organised to allow a 'reader' gain mastery of each of the CSEC topics and objectives.  

Subject:
Numbers and Operations
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Andrew Moore
Date Added:
06/29/2016
Farmer's Agribusiness Training Course: Module 4 - ICT in Support of Farming. Lesson 3 : Record Keeping II
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This Farmers' Agribusiness training course has been developed to help both farmers and farmer organisations. Its intention is to provide access to provide access to additional skills and knowledge that will allow farmers to move from a 'farm' to a 'firm'. This lesson provides information on what farming activities could be considered 'Enterprises' and incorporated into an Enterprise Accounting spreadsheet, how to use functions to calculate totals and averages within the spreadsheet program, customise formula using a spreadsheet program and how to customise the Enterprise accounting template.

Subject:
Agriculture
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
OER Africa
Author:
Moore, Andrew
Date Added:
02/27/2012
Guide to Developing Open Textbooks
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This how to guide has been developed to assist teachers, teaching support personnel and educational technology administrators to: understand the value of open education, OER and open textbooks for teaching and learning; appreciate the potential value of developing an open textbook platform; select appropriate technology to build an open textbook platform, using either existing services offered free on the Internet or open-source tools, based on local needs and resources; and build, manage and maintain an open textbook platforms.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Commonwealth of Learning
Author:
Andrew Moore
Neil Butcher
Date Added:
03/01/2017
Library Carpentry: Introduction to Git
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Library Carpentry lesson: An introduction to Git. What We Will Try to Do Begin to understand and use Git/GitHub. You will not be an expert by the end of the class. You will probably not even feel very comfortable using Git. This is okay. We want to make a start but, as with any skill, using Git takes practice. Be Excellent to Each Other If you spot someone in the class who is struggling with something and you think you know how to help, please give them a hand. Try not to do the task for them: instead explain the steps they need to take and what these steps will achieve. Be Patient With The Instructor and Yourself This is a big group, with different levels of knowledge, different computer systems. This isn’t your instructor’s full-time job (though if someone wants to pay them to play with computers all day they’d probably accept). They will do their best to make this session useful. This is your session. If you feel we are going too fast, then please put up a pink sticky. We can decide as a group what to cover.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Information Science
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
Material Type:
Module
Provider:
The Carpentries
Author:
Alex Mendes
Alexander Gary Zimmerman
Alexander Mendes
Amiya Maji
Amy Olex
Andrew Lonsdale
Annika Rockenberger
Begüm D. Topçuoğlu
Belinda Weaver
Benjamin Bolker
Bill McMillin
Brian Moore
Casey Youngflesh
Christoph Junghans
Christopher Erdmann
DSTraining
Dan Michael O. Heggø
David Jennings
Erin Alison Becker
Evan Williamson
Garrett Bachant
Grant Sayer
Ian Lee
Jake Lever
Jamene Brooks-Kieffer
James Baker
James E McClure
James O'Donnell
James Tocknell
Janoš Vidali
Jeffrey Oliver
Jeremy Teitelbaum
Jeyashree Krishnan
Joe Atzberger
Jonah Duckles
Jonathan Cooper
João Rodrigues
Katherine Koziar
Katrin Leinweber
Kunal Marwaha
Kurt Glaesemann
L.C. Karssen
Lauren Ko
Lex Nederbragt
Madicken Munk
Maneesha Sane
Marie-Helene Burle
Mark Woodbridge
Martino Sorbaro
Matt Critchlow
Matteo Ceschia
Matthew Bourque
Matthew Hartley
Maxim Belkin
Megan Potterbusch
Michael Torpey
Michael Zingale
Mingsheng Zhang
Nicola Soranzo
Nima Hejazi
Nora McGregor
Oscar Arbeláez
Peace Ossom Williamson
Raniere Silva
Rayna Harris
Rene Gassmoeller
Rich McCue
Richard Barnes
Ruud Steltenpool
Ryan Wick
Rémi Emonet
Samniqueka Halsey
Samuel Lelièvre
Sarah Stevens
Saskia Hiltemann
Schlauch, Tobias
Scott Bailey
Shari Laster
Simon Waldman
Stefan Siegert
Thea Atwood
Thomas Morrell
Tim Dennis
Tommy Keswick
Tracy Teal
Trevor Keller
TrevorLeeCline
Tyler Crawford Kelly
Tyler Reddy
Umihiko Hoshijima
Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati
Wes Harrell
Will Usher
William Sacks
Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström
Yuri
abracarambar
ajtag
butterflyskip
cmjt
hdinkel
jonestoddcm
pllim
Date Added:
08/07/2020
OER Maths Textbook
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The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Caribbean Secondary Education Curriculum (CSEC) mathematics syllabus has been used to guide the selection and sequencing of quality Open Education Resources (OER) to create a free textbook or online course. The resources have been collected and vetted by experienced mathematics teachers and organised to allow a 'reader' gain mastery of each of the CSEC topics and objectives. The topics available for study include:

Computation
Number Theory
Consumer Arithmetic

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Reading
Date Added:
01/29/2016
OER in Action - UNESCO ICT-CFT Courses
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Developing a course, and associated materials, to support professional development can often be a costly enterprise. Designers and developers need to consider curriculum design, materials development, quality assurance, platform customisation and evaluation. Following this process step by step is often protracted and costly. The ADDIE model of instructional design, a popular and often cited ideal approach to creating courseware, suggests that analysis of needs, courseware design and development, implementation and course evaluation is required by any entity bent on creating effective courses.

In contrast to this mindset, however, there is evidence that a collaborative-shared approach to instructional design challenges the ADDIE model’s assumption that each step needs to be done in-house. Since 2011, several Teacher ICT Integration professional development initiatives around the globe have demonstrated that burdens in both design and development phases can be shared, shortening the time required to design courses and develop the accompanying resources. This approach also is more cost effective than typical ventures.

Subject:
Education
Educational Technology
Material Type:
Primary Source
Author:
Andrew Moore
Date Added:
07/09/2018
R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis
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This lesson in part of Software Carpentry workshop and teach novice programmers to write modular code and best practices for using R for data analysis. an introduction to R for non-programmers using gapminder data The goal of this lesson is to teach novice programmers to write modular code and best practices for using R for data analysis. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and its array of third-party packages. We find that many scientists who come to Software Carpentry workshops use R and want to learn more. The emphasis of these materials is to give attendees a strong foundation in the fundamentals of R, and to teach best practices for scientific computing: breaking down analyses into modular units, task automation, and encapsulation. Note that this workshop will focus on teaching the fundamentals of the programming language R, and will not teach statistical analysis. The lesson contains more material than can be taught in a day. The instructor notes page has some suggested lesson plans suitable for a one or half day workshop. A variety of third party packages are used throughout this workshop. These are not necessarily the best, nor are they comprehensive, but they are packages we find useful, and have been chosen primarily for their usability.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Information Science
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
Material Type:
Module
Provider:
The Carpentries
Author:
Adam H. Sparks
Ahsan Ali Khoja
Amy Lee
Ana Costa Conrado
Andrew Boughton
Andrew Lonsdale
Andrew MacDonald
Andris Jankevics
Andy Teucher
Antonio Berlanga-Taylor
Ashwin Srinath
Ben Bolker
Bill Mills
Bret Beheim
Clare Sloggett
Daniel
Dave Bridges
David J. Harris
David Mawdsley
Dean Attali
Diego Rabatone Oliveira
Drew Tyre
Elise Morrison
Erin Alison Becker
Fernando Mayer
François Michonneau
Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva
Gordon McDonald
Greg Wilson
Harriet Dashnow
Ido Bar
Jaime Ashander
James Balamuta
James Mickley
Jamie McDevitt-Irwin
Jeffrey Arnold
Jeffrey Oliver
John Blischak
Jonah Duckles
Josh Quan
Julia Piaskowski
Kara Woo
Kate Hertweck
Katherine Koziar
Katrin Leinweber
Kellie Ottoboni
Kevin Weitemier
Kiana Ashley West
Kieran Samuk
Kunal Marwaha
Kyriakos Chatzidimitriou
Lachlan Deer
Lex Nederbragt
Liz Ing-Simmons
Lucy Chang
Luke W Johnston
Luke Zappia
Marc Sze
Marie-Helene Burle
Marieke Frassl
Mark Dunning
Martin John Hadley
Mary Donovan
Matt Clark
Melissa Kardish
Mike Jackson
Murray Cadzow
Narayanan Raghupathy
Naupaka Zimmerman
Nelly Sélem
Nicholas Lesniak
Nicholas Potter
Nima Hejazi
Nora Mitchell
Olivia Rata Burge
Paula Andrea Martinez
Pete Bachant
Phil Bouchet
Philipp Boersch-Supan
Piotr Banaszkiewicz
Raniere Silva
Rayna Michelle Harris
Remi Daigle
Research Bazaar
Richard Barnes
Robert Bagchi
Rémi Emonet
Sam Penrose
Sandra Brosda
Sarah Munro
Sasha Lavrentovich
Scott Allen Funkhouser
Scott Ritchie
Sebastien Renaut
Thea Van Rossum
Timothy Eoin Moore
Timothy Rice
Tobin Magle
Trevor Bekolay
Tyler Crawford Kelly
Vicken Hillis
Yuka Takemon
bippuspm
butterflyskip
waiteb5
Date Added:
03/20/2017
Unpacking Creative Commons Licenses
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This editable resource is a 1-page handout explaining the six different Creative Commons licenses, their symbols, full names, and what users may, must, and must not do according to the terms of the licenses. This resource does not replace Creative Commons legal or human-readable license versions.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Virginia Tech
Author:
Andrew Moore
Date Added:
12/03/2015
Version Control with Git
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This lesson is part of the Software Carpentry workshops that teach how to use version control with Git. Wolfman and Dracula have been hired by Universal Missions (a space services spinoff from Euphoric State University) to investigate if it is possible to send their next planetary lander to Mars. They want to be able to work on the plans at the same time, but they have run into problems doing this in the past. If they take turns, each one will spend a lot of time waiting for the other to finish, but if they work on their own copies and email changes back and forth things will be lost, overwritten, or duplicated. A colleague suggests using version control to manage their work. Version control is better than mailing files back and forth: Nothing that is committed to version control is ever lost, unless you work really, really hard at it. Since all old versions of files are saved, it’s always possible to go back in time to see exactly who wrote what on a particular day, or what version of a program was used to generate a particular set of results. As we have this record of who made what changes when, we know who to ask if we have questions later on, and, if needed, revert to a previous version, much like the “undo” feature in an editor. When several people collaborate in the same project, it’s possible to accidentally overlook or overwrite someone’s changes. The version control system automatically notifies users whenever there’s a conflict between one person’s work and another’s. Teams are not the only ones to benefit from version control: lone researchers can benefit immensely. Keeping a record of what was changed, when, and why is extremely useful for all researchers if they ever need to come back to the project later on (e.g., a year later, when memory has faded). Version control is the lab notebook of the digital world: it’s what professionals use to keep track of what they’ve done and to collaborate with other people. Every large software development project relies on it, and most programmers use it for their small jobs as well. And it isn’t just for software: books, papers, small data sets, and anything that changes over time or needs to be shared can and should be stored in a version control system.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Information Science
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
Material Type:
Module
Provider:
The Carpentries
Author:
Alexander G. Zimmerman
Amiya Maji
Amy L Olex
Andrew Lonsdale
Annika Rockenberger
Begüm D. Topçuoğlu
Ben Bolker
Bill Sacks
Brian Moore
Casey Youngflesh
Charlotte Moragh Jones-Todd
Christoph Junghans
David Jennings
Erin Alison Becker
François Michonneau
Garrett Bachant
Grant Sayer
Holger Dinkel
Ian Lee
Jake Lever
James E McClure
James Tocknell
Janoš Vidali
Jeremy Teitelbaum
Jeyashree Krishnan
Jimmy O'Donnell
Joe Atzberger
Jonah Duckles
Jonathan Cooper
João Rodrigues
Katherine Koziar
Katrin Leinweber
Kunal Marwaha
Kurt Glaesemann
L.C. Karssen
Lauren Ko
Lex Nederbragt
Madicken Munk
Maneesha Sane
Marie-Helene Burle
Mark Woodbridge
Martino Sorbaro
Matt Critchlow
Matteo Ceschia
Matthew Bourque
Matthew Hartley
Maxim Belkin
Megan Potterbusch
Michael Torpey
Michael Zingale
Mingsheng Zhang
Nicola Soranzo
Nima Hejazi
Oscar Arbeláez
Peace Ossom Williamson
Pey Lian Lim
Raniere Silva
Rayna Michelle Harris
Rene Gassmoeller
Rich McCue
Richard Barnes
Ruud Steltenpool
Rémi Emonet
Samniqueka Halsey
Samuel Lelièvre
Sarah Stevens
Saskia Hiltemann
Schlauch, Tobias
Scott Bailey
Simon Waldman
Stefan Siegert
Thomas Morrell
Tommy Keswick
Traci P
Tracy Teal
Trevor Keller
TrevorLeeCline
Tyler Crawford Kelly
Tyler Reddy
Umihiko Hoshijima
Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati
Wes Harrell
Will Usher
Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström
abracarambar
butterflyskip
jonestoddcm
Date Added:
03/20/2017
A study of the impact of data sharing on article citations using journal policies as a natural experiment
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This study estimates the effect of data sharing on the citations of academic articles, using journal policies as a natural experiment. We begin by examining 17 high-impact journals that have adopted the requirement that data from published articles be publicly posted. We match these 17 journals to 13 journals without policy changes and find that empirical articles published just before their change in editorial policy have citation rates with no statistically significant difference from those published shortly after the shift. We then ask whether this null result stems from poor compliance with data sharing policies, and use the data sharing policy changes as instrumental variables to examine more closely two leading journals in economics and political science with relatively strong enforcement of new data policies. We find that articles that make their data available receive 97 additional citations (estimate standard error of 34). We conclude that: a) authors who share data may be rewarded eventually with additional scholarly citations, and b) data-posting policies alone do not increase the impact of articles published in a journal unless those policies are enforced.

Subject:
Economics
Social Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
PLOS ONE
Author:
Allan Dafoe
Andrew K. Rose
Don A. Moore
Edward Miguel
Garret Christensen
Date Added:
08/07/2020