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Open Educational Resources

Introduction

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are freely accessible and openly licensed teaching and learning materials that can be reused, shared, revised and remixed. OERs may be an individual module or learning object or entire courses or textbooks. Teaching staff can use OERs to:

  • reduce costs for students
  • increase student engagement and success
  • avoid restrictive licensing conditions that often accompany purchased teaching and learning materials
  • support equitable and inclusive learning and teaching practices.

The 5 Rs of Using OER

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

OER benefits

OER benefits

Australian Case Studies