What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are "teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others."
From The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
OER materials are released under an open license granting permission for every one to:
- Retain -- users have the right to make, archive, and own copies of the content
- Reuse -- content can be reused in its unaltered form
- Revise -- content can be adapted, adjusted, modified, and altered
- Remix -- original or revised content can be combined with other content to create something new
- Redistribute -- copies of the content can be shared with others in its original, revised or remixed form.
OER include digital learning materials such as:
- modules
- lectures
- homework assignments
- quizzes
- lab activities
- games
- syllabi
- simulations
- open textbooks
- full courses
Open Illinois
- Open Illinois OER HubOpen Illinois facilitates the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and supports training, advocacy, and coordination of cooperative effort for the benefit of members of Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and other Illinois stakeholders. This centralized repository provides materials helpful to academic and research institutions in developing OER and advocating for adoption of OER on their campuses to reduce students costs.
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Anne Chernaik
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Attribution
College of Lake County Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER) is based on the Lansing Community College Library Research Guide that was edited by Amy Larson, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on design by Regina Gong