Introduction to Open Educational Resources
This textbook serves as an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) providing faculty with new options for selecting textbooks and other resources so they can make the best decisions for their students.
This book will help readers:
- Properly identify the creative commons (CC) license on a resource and describe how this resource can and cannot be used.
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of open resources using current research in the field as evidence.
- Research, analyze and review repositories of open resources.
- Effectively search for open resources and post reviews in an OER repository.
- Create an open resource by remixing multiple existing resources and designate a license to this new resource based on the licenses of multiple resources use.
To access the course related to this book go to OER Intro Course from Butte College.
This course content is offered under a CC Attribution license. Content in this course can be considered under this license unless otherwise noted.
