Tufts OER
Tufts University is a leader in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, bringing access to educational content, tools, and infrastructure to educators, students, and self-learners. As a premier university with a commitment to internationalism, active citizenship, and leadership in the health sciences and environment, Tufts provides free access to high quality information to support the learning efforts of individuals around the world. Open dissemination of information, particularly to improve global health with partners in the developing world, is an important part of Tufts' mission. We invite you to explore these resources.
The Child & Family WebGuide describes trustworthy websites on topics of interest to parents and professionals, giving the public easy access to the best child development information on the Web. Sites listed on the WebGuide have been systematically evaluated by Tufts graduate students and faculty in child development and are chosen primarily by the quality of the information provided.
This site provides a standard set of tools developed to help people with the study of Greek, Latin, and Art and Archaeology. Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Its primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials, such as the classics, to as large an audience as possible in the digital world.
A joint initiative of the South Cove Community Health Center (Boston) and Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library, the Spiral initiative aims to increase electronic access to health information for consumers and health, specifically in the languages of the community served, Chinese, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Laotian.
TDR is a repository system that allows the Digital Collections and Archives to preserve and manage digital content of enduring value created at Tufts University or used in teaching and research at Tufts University. This digital repository is based on Fedora, an Open Source digital repository architecture.
EBCAM is a website created by the Tufts University School of Medicine in partnership with the New England School of Acupuncture. It is designed to provide medical students with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they will need to critically evaluate complementary and alternative medical therapies and selectively integrate them into their future practices of allopathic medicine.
A comprehensive content management system, TUSK provides tools for faculty and students in the health sciences programs to create, upload, edit, and manage learning objects. It simplifies access to a diverse range of information resources and facilitates the effective use of this information by allowing faculty and students access to learning objects from/to all courses.
VUE is an information management application that provides an interactive, concept mapping interface to digital resources accessed via the Web, from FEDORA-based digital repositories, FTP servers, or local file systems. Flexible tools that help faculty and students integrate electronic content into their teaching and learning.