OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

What is OER?

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created by professional scholars and teachers, which are licensed to be free for end users to own, share, and modify.

{University of South Carolina. (2023). Scholar Commons Collection Development Policy Addendum: Open Educational Resources (OER).}

Why OERs?

OERs have the potential to lower the cost of education, give faculty more control over their instructional materials, and enable new ways of learning. 

{University of Hawai'i. (2016). Why OER? http://oer.hawaii.edu/what-is-oer/why-oer/}


The five rights of oer. Retain which is The right to make, own, and control copies of the content. Reuse which is The right to use the content in a wide range of ways. Revise which is The right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself. Remix which is The right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new. And Redistribute which is The right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others.