Open Educational Resources (OER)
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What are OER/Open Educational Resources?
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation This link opens in a new window defines Open Educational Resources as "teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions."
The 5 Rs of Open
The Open Education movement is built around the 5Rs of Open This link opens in a new window. These represent the gold standard in openness:
- Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content
- Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in class, in study group, on a public website, in a video)
- Revise – the right to adapt, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
- Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new (e.g. mashup)
- Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)
- OER Mythbusting This link opens in a new windowDebunking the top myths about OER in North American higher education
- OER Myths & Rebuttals This link opens in a new windowTacoma Community College