BIOL 112/121 Content Curation OE Repository Evaluation List
Note - Working on modifying the table to fit.
Repository Name | Repository URL | Search Difficulty | License | Audio | Video | Case Studies | Assessment | Other Resources | Basic Search | Advanced Search | Browsable | Education Level |
MIT OpenCourseWare | http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm | EASY | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US | Y | Y | \ | Y | Y | Y | Y | High school, Undergraduate, Graduate | |
MIT OpenCourseWare YouTube Channel | http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT | MEDIUM | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US | Y | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | Y | |
Jorum | http://find.jorum.ac.uk/ | DIFFICULT | Various, Can limit by license type | N | Y | http://find.jorum.ac.uk/resources/463 | Y | powerpoint | Y | Y | N | Higher education, further education |
Connexions | http://cnx.org/ | DIFFICULT | CC BY 3.0 | Y | Y | \ | Y | \ | Y | Y | Y | K-12, college, university, con ed, professional development |
National Science Digital Library | http://nsdl.org/index.php | EASY | Various | Y | Y | \ | Y | Y | Y | Y | K-12, university, con ed, professional development | |
OpenStax College | https://openstaxcollege.org | DIFFICULT | CC BY 3.0 | N | N | N | N | text only | N | N | Y | college and university |
Khan Academy | www.khanacademy.org | MEDIUM | Copyright, and MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) | Y | Y | \ | Y | N | Y | K-12, university, con ed | ||
AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository) | https://amser.org/ | EASY | Various | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | primary, high school, university, teachers | |
OER Commons (Open Educational Resources) | http://www.oercommons.org/ | EASY | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (mostly) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | student, teacher, administrator, parent | |
OER University | http://oeruniversitas.org/ | DIFFICULT | CC BY 3.0 (mostly) | unknown | unknown | unknown | N | unknown - can't search well enough to find out | Y | N | Y | college, university, educators |
MERLOT II | http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm | EASY | Various CC | Y | Y | \ | Y | Y | Y | K-12, college, grad school, professional development | ||
Saylor.org Academy | www.saylor.org | MEDIUM | CC BY 3.0 (mostly) | Y | Y | \ | unknown | Y | N | Y | K-12, university, professional development | |
iBiology | http://www.ibiology.org/ | EASY | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 | N | Y | N | Y | Y | N | Y | university | |
Bozemn Science YouTube Channel | http://www.youtube.com/user/bozemanbiology | MEDIUM | Standard YouTube License | N | Y | N | Y (on website) | Y | N | Y | ||
CrashCourse YouTube Channel | http://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse | MEDIUM | Standard YouTube License | N | Y | N | N | Y | N | Y | ||
Learners TV | http://www.learnerstv.com | MEDIUM | Mostly CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US | Y | Y (website says they do, but link is broken, could not verify) | Powerpoints, animations | Y | N | Y | University | ||
BioVisions (at Harvard) | http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/ | IMPOSSIBLE | Unknown | N | Y | N | N | animations | N | N | Y | University |
BioEd Online | http://www.bioedonline.org/videos/content-presentations/ | EASY | need permission to distribute | N | Y | lessons | Y | N | Y | K-12 | ||
Berkeley on iTunes | http://itunes.berkeley.edu/ | |||||||||||
PhET | http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/gene-machine-lac-operon | |||||||||||
Vision Learning | http://www.visionlearning.com/ | |||||||||||
ASM MicrobLibrary | http://www.microbelibrary.org/library/biofilm/2704-cellular-nucleic-acid-and-extracellular-polysaccharide-staining-of%20biofilms | |||||||||||
SciVee | http://www.scivee.tv/ | |||||||||||
Garland Science YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/user/garlandscience | |||||||||||
Howard Hughes Medical Institute | http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/browse?&field_bio_format_type[0]=23446&field_bio_biointeractive_topics[1]=23469 | |||||||||||
Wikipedia: "List of educational video websites" | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_educational_video_websites | |||||||||||
PAID SERVICES | ||||||||||||
Sapling Learning | http://www2.saplinglearning.com/ | |||||||||||
The Expert TA | http://www.theexpertta.com/ | |||||||||||
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning | http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/ | |||||||||||
MindBites | http://www.mindbites.com/category/22-biology | |||||||||||
Codecademy | http://www.codecademy.com/ | |||||||||||