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Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources are Open Access publications specifically designed for teaching and learning.
OERs allow faculty and students an infinitely flexible, customizable, and accessible model for textbooks and other learning tools.
"Open educational resources (OER) are any resources available at little or no cost that can be used for teaching, learning, or research. The term can include textbooks, course readings, and other learning content; simulations, games, and other learning applications; syllabi, quizzes, and assessment tools; and virtually any other material that can be used for educational purposes. OER typically refers to electronic resources, including those in multimedia formats, and such materials are generally released under a Creative Commons or similar license that supports open or nearly open use of the content. OER can originate from colleges and universities, libraries, archival organizations, government agencies, commercial organizations such as publishers, or faculty or other individuals who develop educational resources they are willing to share." -- 7 Things You Should Know About Open Educational Resources
David Wiley explains that, to qualify as an OER, the "5R's" must be allowed:
- Retain – permission to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
- Reuse – permission to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
- Revise – permission to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
- Remix – permission to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
- Redistribute – permission to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of to a friend)
The most "open" of the Creative Commons licenses allow remixing and redistribution: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, or CC BY-NC-SA.
- Open Textbook LibraryAn open textbook repository providing access to materials that can be freely used, adapted, and distributed. The textbooks have been reviewed for quality by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities. All of the textbooks in the repository are either used at institutions of higher education or are affiliated with such an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
- OpenStaxProvides access to open textbooks and low-cost learning technology that can be integrated with the textbook content.
- OER CommonsOffers access to curated OER collections and hubs.
- SUNY Open TextbooksOpenly licensed textbooks and courses written and curated by State University of New York (SUNY) faculty.
- BC Campus Open TextbooksThe BC Campus project goal is to make higher education more accessible by reducing student cost through the use of openly licensed textbooks, and hosts resources from British Columbia and Canada.
- CC SearchThis is the Creative Commons search tool, useful for finding photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share or build upon. The site offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations.
When you use open pedagogy in your classroom, you are inviting your students to be part of the teaching process, participating in the co-creation of knowledge. - BC Campus
- Open Pedagogy NotebookProvides an explanation of open pedagogy philosophies, along with curriculum examples.
- What is Open Pedagogy?From BC Campus Open Education, this resources provides information about open pedagogy, open educational resources, and links to the BC Campus open textbook collection.
- Open Pedagogy Project RoadmapOpen pedagogy projects can be multi-faceted, single-semester or multi-year, and can result in any number of student authored/created/directed scholarly or non-scholarly outputs. These outputs could include, for example, a public-facing blog post, translating a Wikipedia page, creating a digital scholarly edition, socially annotating, revising an open textbook, and/or contributing to crowd-sourced transcription projects. The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap is a module-based resource that will assist you in planning, finding support for, sharing, and sustaining your open pedagogy project, regardless of its size or scope. The Roadmap will take you through four modules which will guide you through the 5 Ss of open pedagogy projects: Scope, Support, Students, Sharing, and Sustaining.
- OER at HUPPT slides with information about textbook & OER use at HU.
- Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher EducationThe Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (JOERHE) is a Diamond Open Access journal. The journal features content concerned with OER, Open Pedagogy, Open Access, Open Data, and similar topics focusing specifically within the context of Higher Education in the United States and Canada.