Open Education Resources (OER) are designed to make education more inclusive, opening up opportunities to those who otherwise couldn’t afford it by alleviating the high cost of course materials.
OER are educational materials that have been licensed for free use and adaptation (e.g. the Creative Commons CC BY licence) or do not have copyright restrictions (e.g. the public domain).
OER include a wide range of resources such as textbooks, teaching and learning materials, images, videos, games, lesson plans, worksheets and assessments.
Watch the video below to find out how teaching and learning materials are changing and why OER matter!
Video Length: 2:09
"OER (Open Educational Resources) Introduction II" by Brendan Walsh is licensed under CC BY 4.0
When you are using OER, you have the flexibility to:
| 1 | reuse content in its unaltered/verbatim original format |
| 2 | retain copies of content for personal archives or reference |
| 3 | revise content to suit specific needs |
| 4 | remix content with other similar content to create something new |
| 5 | redistribute or share content with anyone else in its original or altered format |
There are many reasons for using OER in teaching and learning:
This guide has been adapted in part from:
"Open Education Resources" by University of South Australia Library is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0