Background:
This paper will present the development of an educational and information technology project. The movement of Open Educational Resources (OER) is currently one of the most important trends that are helping education through the Internet worldwide. “Tecnológico de Monterrey” (http://tecvirtual.itesm.mx/ ) in Mexico, with other Mexican higher education institutions, is connecting Internet/web based content educational repositories of OER and Learning Objects (L0) to help and enhance distance education, blended learning and face-to-face instruction in Mexico and Latin America. This connecting process for harvesting metadata among digital content repositories, to help identify in a faster way OER and LO available and free at the Internet to assist instruction at different educational level, is part of a project that is experimenting new technology for the delivery and harvesting of OERs and LO information, from three different repositories (http://catedra.ruv.itesm.mx/), (http://www.crea.udg.mx/index.jsp), (http://movil.itch.edu.mx/M-Learning_Lab/Laboratorio_M-Learning.html) and through an indexed OER catalog (http://www.temoa.info/) to mobile devices (Ipod, Iphone, Ipad, Tablets, MP3, MP4) and personal computers. This paper presentation will describe the development of the meta-connection software (for harvesting data) (www.educonector.info) and the creation of guidelines on how to use OERs (http://issuu.com/licci/docs/guia-rea-oa): outcomes, best practices, difficulties and technological constraints.

Research design: 
The project that will be presented at the conference will describe a research conducted by Mexican faculty from four higher education institutions (Tecnológico de Monterrey –ITESM-,  Universidad de Monte Morelos –UM-, Universidad de Guadalajara – UDG-, and Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua –ITCH) during 2011-12. This project developed a "meta-connection software", which it allows the access to basic information from different digital repositories of educational material and educational resources to provide interoperability among them. This meta-connection can be used by catalogs (infomediaries) on the Internet facilitating the process of finding, evaluating and sharing learning resources. In a second stage this project aims to document, describe and analyze the processes of use and implementation of Learning Objects and Open Educational Resources, allowing the identification of the best educational practices.
The central idea of the project is to develop educational guidelines for the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) available in the Internet to the educational community; with the intention of assisting efforts to initiatives that seek to reduce the education gap, enhance educational practices and train trainers in the educational settings with the best teaching practices on the use of these educational digital material.  

Key expected findings (presentation objectives): 
1. Describing the OER and OL “meta-connection” search engine software, created and managed by the Tecnológico de Monterrey. 2. Presenting the guidelines and methodology booklet to use OER for instructional purpose.