Title: Activity 4.4: Searching for OER
Course: Stage 4 Resources and OER > Section: 2. Open Educational Resources & Open Licencing

Purpose: to find appropriate OER for your course.

Timing: 60 mins

Tools: Moodle Folder; Jamboard

Resources: Your Resource Audit; OER Repositories list shared in the presentation;  Your institutional Electronic Library Open resources;  OER Africa Repository list

Task: Fill the gaps identified in your Resources Audit

- Using the search techniques and list of repositories, find course content in the form of a model or image, a video, lecture recording, course PPT or course notes.
- Take note of the licence conditions
- Add the details to your Resource Audit and save the file.

Response:

- Upload the new version of your Resource Audit to the shared Resource Audit folder in Moodle. (Your faciclitator will provide you with uploading access and demonstrate how to do this.)
- Then post sticky notes to the Jamboard  to tell us about some of the treasures that you have found. In your note/s tell us briefly about the resource/s and the web address/es where you found them.

Helpful tutorials:

- OER África (2020) Understanding OER: #3. Search Techniques
- OER África (2020) How to search for Open Content using Google, Creative Commons, etc