What Are Open Educational Resources?
For an a quick introduction, watch the following video:What is OER.
OER Defined
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. Unlike copyrighted resources, OER have been authored or created by an individual or organization that chooses to retain few, if any, ownership rights.
In some cases, that means you can download a resource and share it with colleagues and students. In other cases, you may be able to download a resource, edit it in some way, and then re-post it as a remixed work. How do you know your options? OER often have a Creative Commons license that tells you how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.
Attributions:
Video: What is OER? By The Council of Chief State School Officers CC BY 4.0
Adapted from OER Commons & Open Education, Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License