What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?
OERs are free, re-mixable, shareable educational tools, such as textbooks and lesson plans, that faculty can adapt as they see fit. OERs’ accelerating spread across the academy is driven by licenses that permit re-use, re-production and adaptation of these tools by anyone.
The following are the 5 attributes of OERs
Interested in learning more about OERs? Here are some suggested resources:
Students
OER Evidence Report 2013-2014 by OERRH
Faculty stories from Open Education 2014 Conference
Chae and Jenkins, 2014. A Qualitative Investigation of Faculty Open Educational Resource Usage in the Washington Community and Technical College System: Models for Support and Implementation
CUNY Introduction to Open Educational Resources [Course]
Open Textbooks: Getting Started [CUNY Academic Commons Post]
Difference among Potential Course Materials