Content Collection
Creating and modifying digital resources
To modify and build on existing openly-licensed resources and other resources where this is permitted. To create or co-create new digital educational resources. To consider the specific learning objective, context, pedagogical approach, and learner group, when designing digital resources and planning their use.
Visual content is usually image-based and may include pictures, drawings, diagrams, charts, infographics, videos, photographs and computer-generated designs.Educators can use several user-friendly creation tools to create learning resources based on image, video, animation, infographics, etc. Examples are:Canva – to create, edit…
Online collaborative spaces are digital environments where learners can develop their individual and collective learning. The design of these spaces should begin with a dialogue between all stakeholders, so that their collaboration needs are fully met.Educators can choose to use…
Game-based learning implies using gaming principles and applying them to learning settings to engage learners with educational resources and activities. Game elements can include: badges, rubrics, customised grading scales, competition, etc.Educators can easily create interactive quizzes, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering,…
Interactive learning activities are those that forgo teacher-to-learner communication are require learners to interact with materials and/or other learners; thus, promoting active learning. Educators can easily create interactive quizzes, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, gap-filling activities, etc. Examples of digital tools…
Metadata refers to the tags or key-words that you define to characterise a certain piece of information or document, which is key to facilitate being found by other potential users. After creating an OER, it is important to make it…
Public domain documents are those that are not protected by copyright, given that the rights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable, i.e., those documents or pieces of information that are free for you to use without having to…