What are OERs?

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.

Open educational resources include: full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

And how can we use them?

• Retain Make and own a copy • Reuse Use in a wide range of ways • Revise Adapt, modify, and improve • Remix Combine two or more • Redistribute Share with others