OER can:
Learn more about the Pros and Cons of OER: OER Pros/Cons and Evaluation Methods
Open Educational Resources (OER) are guided by the idea that
high-quality educational materials should be available to everyone.
OER are educational materials—everything from a single lesson plan to an entire textbook—that save students and teachers money because they are free to use, customize, and share.
OER are openly licensed, which makes it easy to personalize materials and infuse them with fresh, relevant content. -OER Commons
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What's the difference between OER and Open Access?
OER materials are freely and publicly available 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 access refers to teaching, learning and research materials that are available free online for anyone to use as is, but they may not be revised, remixed, or redistributed.
Open content uses free license that grant users permission to:
This material is an adaptation of Defining the "Open" in Open Content and Open Educational Resources,
originally written by David Wiley and available under a CC4.0 license