This guide was created as an introduction to Open Education Resources for students and faculty members who are interested in incorporating new resources into teaching and learning.
What are Open Educational Resources?
OER are "teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge." - The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Examples of OER include, but are not limited to:
- Full courses
- Course materials
- Content modules
- Learning objects
- Collections
- Journals
- Textbooks
- Software