Open Educational Resources (OER)
This guide is intended to provide SNHU faculty/staff information and support in researching open educational resources and copyright/licensing.
Questions?
If you have any questions, or if you would like more information, please contact:
Ellen Phillips - Director, Open Educational Resources & Intellectual Property, e.phillips@snhu.edu (603.652.1900)
License Information
All original content in this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 This link opens in a new window International License. 3rd-party content including, but not limited to images and linked items, are subject to their own license terms.
Quick Reads
- 7 Things You Should Know About Open Education This link opens in a new windowAn EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) to provide concise information on OER, describing what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning
Background Articles & Information
- Iterating Toward Openness: Lessons Learned on a Personal Journey This link opens in a new windowWiley, D. 2017. Iterating Toward Openness: Lessons Learned on a Personal Journey. In:
Jhangiani, R S and Biswas-Diener, R. (eds.) Open: The Philosophy and Practices that
are Revolutionizing Education and Science. Pp. 195–207. London: Ubiquity Press.
License: CC-BY 4.0 - An Open Education Reader This link opens in a new windowA collection of readings on open education with commentary. Created for IPT 515R Introduction to Open Education, a graduate course at Brigham Young University.
- Framing Open Educational Practices from a Social Justice Perspective This link opens in a new windowJournal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1): 10, pp. 1–12
- But What Do The Students Think: Results of the CUNY Cross-Campus Zero-Textbook Cost Student Survey This linkOpen Praxis, vol. 11 issue 1, January–March 2019, pp. 85–101
- Open Educational Resources and College Textbook Choices This link opens in a new windowLiterature review of OER and open textbook choices. Focuses on efficacy and perceptions. From the Educational Technology Research and Development journal
- The Need for Open Educational Resources This link opens in a new windowFrom Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice
- OER may be free, but you still need to invest to use them: Part I This link opens in a new windowBlog post from the World Bank that discusses things to consider when starting an OER project
- The Non-Economic Value of Open Educational Resources This link opens in a new windowLetter to the Editor.
- Articles and Book Chapters Published by OER Research Fellows This link opens in a new windowFrom the Open Education Group