Literacy Council of Tyler OER Fact Sheet

Created Feb. 7, 2024 by ashly winkle

Literacy Council of Tyler OER Fact Sheet

Definition of OER:
  • Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits sharing, accessing, repurposing—including for commercial purposes—and collaborating with others.
  • Five foundational principles (the 5Rs) are part of all OER.
The Five R’s:
  • Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content
  • Reuse – the right to reuse the content as verbatim or in its unaltered form
  • Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
  • Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new
  • Redistribute – the right to make and share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others
Difference between free and open resources:
  • Free resources serve a meaningful purpose in AE by providing teachers with tools to support teaching and learning.
  • "Free" means that materials are free to access, but not remix or revise.
  • When a resource is open, a user can remix or revise with other open resources or self-generated content to produce new material that directly targets the adult learner’s needs.
Where to create and remix OER:
Relevance of OER to Adult Education:
  • OER help students achieve their learning goals by providing flexible and accessible supplements to instruction.
  • OER encourage lifelong learning habits in students by providing them with personalized and readily available learning materials.
  • OER helps educators by augmenting instruction, strengthening their content knowledge, and providing access to free online professional development.

    

"NMDELT OER Fact Sheet" 2018 by user Don Dutton under license"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0".

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