Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible teaching, learning, and research materials in any format that are in the public domain or are available under an open license that allows their free use and re-purposing by others.
The term open educational resources (OER) was first introduced at a conference hosted by UNESCO in 2000 and was endorsed in the context of providing free access to educational resources on a global scale.
OER include a varied range of materials: books, case studies, courses, journals, primary sources, assessments, assignments, reference materials, tutorials, tests, and more.
The 5 R's - Source http://opencontent.org/definition/
... Access, Equity and Pedagogy.
Use OER instead of commercial textbooks if it’s pedagogically fitting.
Benefits:
OER release should be subject to ongoing Quality Assurance process which is transparent and fair, however this is not always the case.
Without preservation of these often one-time start-up OER projects, the initial funding will end after a few years and sustaining the resources will be expensive, the resources may become outdated and the quality gone.
Many do not understand the potential of OER and feel that it threatens their ownership of intellectual property. Also, it takes time to creat and/or locate existing OER.
Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum using this public digital library of open educational resources.
A search index for Open Educational Resources in higher education. OERSI connects OER repositories of distributed state initiatives, institutional repositories of universities and libraries, and subject-specialized repositories for OER.
Open Library contains information about books. Internet Archive hosts a collection of digitized books. Open Library’s universal catalog provides links to discover, borrow, and read from the Internet Archive’s collections.
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Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.
Use open technologies to facilitate, evaluate, and create open educational resources to share.
Use the Advanced Search option in Google to look for OER.
Scroll down to 'Usage Rights' and select Free to use, share or modify, even commercially.
Use this OER treasure hunt to help you when you start your journey to identify, curate and implement OER in your practice.
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