OER

Open Educational Resources (OER):

Fact Sheet

OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits sharing, accessing, repurposing̵̶ including for commercial purposes̶ and collaborating with others.

The Five R Framework, developed by David Wiley supports a deeper understanding of what it means to consider an object (i.e., resource) an OER.

The 5Rs*

1.     Retain– the right to make, own, and control copies of the content

2.     Reuse – the right to reuse the content as verbatim or in its unaltered form

3.     Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself

4.     Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new

5.     Redistribute – the right to make and share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others


OER LINKS

myOpenMath

https://www.myopenmath.com/

OER Commons

www.oercommons.org

Merlot

www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Saylor

https://www.saylor.org/




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