Research Guides

Finding Openly Accessible and Open Educational Resources

OER Scavenger Hunt

It's time to test your searching skills!

1. First, select one of the following options:

 

2. Then, use the table of search terms (below) to search for learning materials in your course's discipline or on a topic in your course calendar.

Keywords and Phrases Relating to Instruction

  • Academic achievement
  • Academic development
  • Accessibility
  • Achievement
  • Achievement gap
  • Action research
  • Active learning
  • Adult learning
  • Analysis
  • Andragogy
  • Annotation
  • Anxiety
  • Assessment
  • Assignments
  • Assistive technology
  • Asynchronous instruction
  • At-risk
  • Attention
  • Attitude
  • Authentic
  • Authentic learning
  • Backwards design
  • Beliefs
  • Behavior
  • Behavior management
  • Behavioral challenges
  • Blended learning
  • Bloom's taxonomy
  • Book
  • Book clubs
  • Case method
  • Case study
  • Challenges
  • Change management
  • Class size
  • Classroom climate
  • Classroom design
  • Classroom management
  • Cloud-based learning
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive development
  • Cognitive load
  • Cognitive strategies
  • Copyright
  • Collaboration
  • Collaborative learning
  • Collaborative research
  • College
  • Communication
  • Communication disorders
  • Communities of practice
  • Community service learning
  • Compare
  • Concepts
  • Conceptions of learning
  • Conceptions of instruction
  • Conceptions of teaching
  • Confidentiality
  • Construction of knowledge
  • Constructivism
  • Contrast
  • Cooperation
  • Counselling
  • Course design
  • Course evaluation
  • Course outline
  • Creative commons
  • Critical thinking
  • Culture
  • Cultural competency
  • Culturally responsive pedagogy
  • Curriculum
  • Curriculum design
  • Data-based
  • Debate
  • Decoding
  • Degree
  • Defend
  • Description
  • Diagram
  • Differentiation
  • Disabilities
  • Discipline
  • Discussion
  • Discussion post
  • Discussion thread
  • Distance learning
  • Diversity
  • E-learning
  • Education
  • Educational development
  • Educational technologies
  • Employment
  • Epistemology
  • Equity
  • Essay writing
  • Ethics
  • Etiquette
  • Evaluation
  • Evidenced-based
  • Examples
  • Exams
  • Expectations
  • Experiential learning
  • Extrinsic motivation
  • Faculty
  • Faculty development
  • Failure
  • Fair use
  • Fairness
  • Feedback
  • First-year student
  • Fixed mindset
  • Flipped classroom
  • Flowchart
  • Formative assessment
  • Formative feedback
  • Game-based learning
  • Gamification
  • Gatekeeping
  • Gender
  • Global design
  • Goals
  • Grading
  • Graduate students
  • Group work
  • Growth mindset
  • Hidden curriculum
  • High-impact practices
  • Higher Education
  • Hybrid course
  • Hybrid design
  • Hybrid learning
  • Illustrate
  • Inclusion
  • Inclusive teaching
  • Individualized instruction
  • Information literacy
  • Inquiry
  • Inquiry-based learning
  • Inquiry research
  • Instruction
  • Instructional design
  • Instructional goals
  • Instructional strategies
  • Instructional technology
  • Instructors
  • Intellectual
  • Intelligence
  • Interactive learning
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International
  • Internationalization
  • Internet
  • Internship
  • Interpret
  • Intrinsic motivation
  • Inverted classroom
  • Justify
  • Knowledge
  • Kolb's learning cycle
  • Lab work
  • Laboratory
  • Language
  • Leadership skills
  • Learner characteristics
  • Learner-centered
  • Learning
  • Learning disabilities
  • Learning goals
  • Learning management system (LMS)
  • Learning objective
  • Learning outcomes
  • Learning spaces
  • Learning styles
  • Learning technology
  • Learning tools
  • Lectures
  • Lesson
  • Lesson planning
  • Licensing
  • Literacy
  • Marginalization
  • Media literacy
  • Memory
  • Mental models
  • Meta
  • Metacognition
  • Minute thesis
  • Mixed methodology
  • Mixed methods research
  • Motivation
  • Multidisciplinary
  • Multimedia
  • Multimodal learning
  • Multiple choice
  • Needs assessment
  • News literacy
  • Non-disclosure
  • Object-based learning (OBL)
  • Objectives
  • Open access
  • Open data
  • Open education
  • Open education resources
  • Open learning
  • Open licensing
  • Open source software
  • Openly accessible
  • Outline
  • Participation
  • Pedagogy
  • Peer assessment
  • Peer observation
  • Peer review
  • Pivot
  • Plagiarism
  • Portfolio assignments
  • Prior knowledge
  • Problem-based learning
  • Professor
  • Professionalism
  • Program outcomes
  • Qualitative analysis
  • Qualitative research
  • Quantitative analysis
  • Quantitative research
  • Question
  • Quiz
  • Read
  • Reflection
  • Reliability
  • Report
  • Research design
  • Research methodology
  • Retrieval
  • Review
  • Risk
  • Rubric
  • Scaffolding
  • Scholarship
  • Scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL)
  • Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
  • Science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM)
  • Self-assessment
  • Self-regulation
  • Service learning
  • Simulation
  • Skills
  • Small group
  • Social constructivism
  • Social learning
  • Social learning systems
  • Stereotyping
  • Storyboarding
  • Storytelling
  • Student
  • Student engagement
  • Student success
  • Study skills
  • Summarize
  • Summative assessment
  • Survey design
  • Synchronous instruction
  • Syllabus
  • Synthesis
  • Taxonomy
  • Teach
  • Teacher
  • Teaching
  • Teaching and learning communities
  • Teaching assistant
  • Teaching controversy
  • Teaching development plan (TDP)
  • Teaching evaluation
  • Teaching methods
  • Teaching portfolio
  • Team-based learning
  • Technology
  • Testing
  • Textbooks
  • Threshold concepts
  • Transfer of knowledge
  • Transfer student
  • Transformative teaching
  • Transparent assignment design
  • Trauma-informed
  • Trigger warnings
  • Underachievement
  • Undergraduate
  • Understand
  • Universal design
  • University
  • Unprepared
  • Validity
  • Values
  • Vocational
  • Vulnerable populations
  • Webinar
  • Wellness
  • Working knowledge
  • Workplace learning
  • Writing
  • Zone of proximal development (ZPD)

Creative Commons Cheat Sheet

 

3. Remember, always check the license terms before you use an open resource!

Assessment

4. Lastly, please take the assessment linked below.

Please click the link, below, to complete the assessment for this activity.

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