Focused on K-12, curricula and Common Core (US). Uses a large number of metadata.

URL

http://www.oercommons.org

Features

Authors info

Creative Commons license info

Download support

Full-text search

Quality rating (by editorial board)

Subject areas

Arts

Economics and Business

Humanities

Social Sciences

Science, Technology and Mathematics

Type

Repository plus Catalog or Directory

Additional information

OER Commons Uses a large number of metadata, but the "Subject" field has only 7 options.
Metadata include a detailed taxonomy of Term of Use.
The advanced search form is based on metadata.

OER Commons has a staff dedicated to quality control.
Most OERs are dedicated to K-12 and are evaluated by adherence to the US Common Core

The web applications include a content editor and private spaces for users and groups.

Comments / evaluation

OERs by subject on 15/04/2015:

•  3384 Arts
•  1493 Business
•    15 English Language Arts
• 22905 Humanities
• 22492 Mathematics and Statistics
• 77336 Science and Technology
• 74307 Social Sciences

Most OERs are in English; some counts of OERs by language on 14/04/2015:

• 131180 - en - English
•   1996 - es - Spanish
•   1488 - fr - French
•    808 - ar - Arab
•    750 - de - German
•    557 - it - Italian
•    469 - ch - Chineese
•    277 - pt - Portuguese
•    230 - ru - Russian
•    218 - jp - Japaneese
•    159 - ca - Catalan

Submitted by Giovanni Toffoli
14/04/2015
in the project Sample Library of OERs

last updated 03/07/2015