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Volume 4 | Issue 8 | Year 2013 | Article Id. IJCTT-V4I8P195 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V4I8P195

Toward Increased Discoverability of Open Educational Resources and Open Courseware

Monica Vladoiu

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Monica Vladoiu, "Toward Increased Discoverability of Open Educational Resources and Open Courseware," International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT), vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 2912-2916, 2013. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V4I8P195

Abstract

The success of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Open Courseware (OCW) initiatives worldwide, which has resulted in a huge number of online instructional resources and repositories available freely, comes with a constant challenge, i. e. locating and retrieving the educational resources that are the most relevant for a specific user’s need, in a particular context, and that have the best quality. In this paper we provide an overview of opportunities for discovering OCW and OERs, which includes the most comprehensive repositories, the OCW/OER compilations of instructional repositories and indicative educational websites, and the most powerful custom search engines for OCW and OER.

Keywords

open courseware; open educational resources; repositories; consortia; custom search

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