What does OER mean?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
What is OER?
Any educational resources that are typically:
What is NOT OER
- Any eBook (unless it is free)
- Any website (unless it has a Creative Commons License)
- Articles from a library database (the student tuition pays for access)
Why use OER?
What CLC Faculty have to say
Why is OER important?
- Academic Success “OER improve end-of-course grades and decrease DFW (D, F, and Withdrawal letter grades) rates for all students. They also improve course grades at greater rates and decrease DFW rates at greater rates for Pell recipient students, part-time students, and populations historically underserved by higher education.” (Colvard et al., 2018)
- Student Impact Watch this video to see how high textbook costs impact the lives of students. "Textbook Tales: Have Textbook Costs Ever Impacted the Quality of Your Education?" by ISU Libraries is licensed under under CC BY.
- Equity/Access “Students consistently reported textbook pricing to negatively impact their stress levels, purchasing habits, first-day access, academic performance, and time-to-graduation rates. The educational hardships posed by high textbook prices were even more significant, however, for historically underserved student groups.” (Jenkins et al., 2020)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License. Adapted from the OER guide from the University of Illinois.