OCW Universidad de Cantabria (OCW UC) has been creating OpenCourseWare since 2009, expanding and improving their list of resources every year. OCW UC is the most visited repository in Spain and one of the most relevant resources in Latin America. Their open repository currently offers more than 230 courses in a wide variety of disciplines, including two full Degrees.
Moreover, the University of Cantabria contributes to fostering open education through initiatives such as its Repository of Teaching Resources. This carefully selected and organized collection of resources serves to enhance teacher's knowledge on open education methodologies, and improve their ability to create high quality teaching materials and activities. This repository is constantly updated to include the latest developments in each one of its categories:
- Applications and services. This section contains applications, websites, tools and services that may be useful to teachers.
- Online courses. Amongst the thousands of free and open online courses available, this is a curated selection of course that may be of general interest to teachers.
- Educational conferences and events. Educational innovation is a key issue at universities and this third category focuses on important educational conferences and events.
- Open educational resources. This category provides a large number of websites that have been published or promote the use of materials with open licenses.
- Training in online teaching. This section contains courses and video tutorials about online teaching.
- Repositories. This final section provides links to other websites where you can find open resources presented in an organized and easily navigable manner.
Each category is divided into subgroups which can be filtered using keywords, facilitating searches.
Open resources are not just necessary, but must be also known and used. This is the goal of the University of Cantabria.
Winners of the 2019 Open Education Award for Excellence: OER Repository
