Mohammed Norazamyn Bin Hussain

Universiti Geomatika Malaysia

20 Sept 2022
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▪ Open courseware
▪ Lecture notes and presentation slides
▪ Lecture videos
▪ Assessment materials with/without solution

▪ Open courses
▪ Open textbooks
▪ Open access journals
▪ Audio visual
▪ Open source softwares
Various types
▪ https://www.oercommons.org/

Open access journals

▪ https://doaj.org/
▪ https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/
▪ https://www.tandfonline.com/ Check on the “Only show Open Access” option on
your search result
▪ https://www.emerald.com/insight/ Select “Open Access” from the advanced
search or search result page
Open Textbooks
▪ https://www.oercommons.org/ including case studies, courseware, etc. the whole
range of OER
▪ https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
▪ https://openstax.org/
▪ https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/
▪ https://libretexts.org/
▪ https://lyryx.com/
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• Anything under your copyright

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• Just use freely within the scope of the license

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• Just declare the license you want to apply

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Course Slide/note
material Case studies
Activities

Online access Library

Embed into Koha resources

Limelight Local champion of OER

▪ National Inclusive Open Educational Resources Policy:
https://jpt.mohe.gov.my/portal/index.php/doclink/policy-
ioer/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJwb2xpY3ktaW9lciIsImlh
dCI6MTY1MTAyNjMwOCwiZXhwIjoxNjUxMTEyNzA4fQ.XrfEb1s5A-
WcSToXhkfgoVVyV2Egq5Yt5-BLFI0X9Ps
▪ California State University: https://www.fullerton.edu/openfullerton/
▪ Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges:
https://www.openwa.org/module-1/
▪ RMIT University: https://rmit.libguides.com/openeducationalresources
▪ Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching, University of Alaska Southeast:
https://oer101.open.uaf.edu/
▪ Contents on Creative Commons licenses were adapted from
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