Open Educational Resources

Hello and welcome to the research guide on Open Educational Resources (OER). Here you will find information about...

• What is an OER

• How to find OER

• Evaluating OER

• OER by Subject 

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines OERs as... 

"Teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions." (Found on UNESCO)

The 5 Rs of OER

1. Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)

2. Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)

3. Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)

4. Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)

5. Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)

         This material was created by David Wiley and published freely under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license at http://opencontent.org/definition/.

OER come in various forms raging from textbooks to assessments and from education staring from early childhood to post secondary and beyond. These resources largely take the form of a textbook within higher education.  

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