Textbook Affordability and Open Educational Resources (OER)

The pages in this section cover all things Open Educational Resources (OER). Open the subpages to learn more about: 

1. Why using OER is important
2. How to find OER to use in your courses
3. The Three As of OER
4. How to maintain OER you're already using
5. Open Pedagogy beyond OER

Open Educational Resources 

Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open (Creative Commons) license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and reshare them. OER can include:

• Learning content: full courses, course materials, content modules, learning objectives, collections, journals, etc.
• Tools: software to support the creation, delivery, use and improvement of open learning content including searching and organization of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and online learning communities.
• Implementation resources: intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design-principles, and localization of content.