This MindMap has been designed to offer a logically structured visual approach to understanding the complex issues involved when creating selecting and using Open Educational Resources, (OER).

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The Sources Branch leads to many of the portals and sites that contain OERs, and thismay be your first port of call if you are looking for Curriculum Specific resources to use immeditaley, or to include in a new resource,

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The Map is also designed to cover the full gamut of practicalities from the selection and use of tools for creating content, through search and discovery, Copyright and IPR issues and enable a strategy for successfully implementing OERs within courses. The maps will include embedded hyperlinks, notes, video and papers together with suggestions for further study and research.

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Although there is still a great deal of potential to build on and extend this map, and we hope you may be enouraged to do so, we trust you will take time to explore each of the nodes and find useful ideas contents and resources.

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The Map also links to the MindMaps for the following Units of Study: (6, 7, 9):

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Unit 6: E-tools of teaching and Learning
Unit 7: Professional Development and Researching Practice
Unit 9: Working in a collaborative online environment

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Copy of Unit 4: OERs Curriculum Specific Resources