This is a short video shared during the Open Education Conference describing eCampus Ontario's Open Library and in particular the Virtual Learning Strategy (VLS) website. It's one in a list of five videos. The difference between the two is that the VLS library includes resources licensed under the Ontario Commons License (OCL), which restricts use to those within the Ontario educational system and requires a login to access. There are about 1200 OER in the Open Library and five times that in the VLS. While I understand why eCampus Ontario uses it, and I know that many jurisdictions do something similar, I'm not a fan of the OCL, since it runs against the spirit of open education, and means that potentially useful and often publicly-funded content is not available to the general public.
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