Week 3 Discussion: Searching for OER

Choose one of the two options to explore in your discussion posting for this week:

A. Identify a course or department on your own campus with the potential to go open. Using any tool discussed in this unit, search for content that might meet the needs of that course/department. Reflect on the following:

• What were the strengths of the specific tool you used? What were the weaknesses?
• What was challenging about conducting this search? Did you have any success?
• How would you advise a faculty member in this course/department looking for open resources in your chosen tool?

B. Identify a search engine or referatory for open resources not highlighted in the lesson and share the URL. Reflect on the following:

• What are the strengths of this engine on referatory?
• What are the challenges of this engine or referatory? 
• When advising faculty of different referatories or search engines, which three would you point to and why? 

Please review the guidelines for discussions in this course.

Due dates:

• Initial discussion post: Friday, March 20 (11:59 pm local time)
• Response post: Sunday, March 22 (11:59 pm local time)