Open Educational Resources (OER) are "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."
From The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
OER include digital learning materials such as:
 Retain |
Make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage) |
 Reuse |
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 |
Adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content (e.g., translate the content into another language) |
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Combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup) |
 Redistribute |
Share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., post a copy of the content online for others to download) |
This material is based on original writing by David Wiley, which was published freely under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license at: Defining the "Open" in Open Content and Open Educational Resources.
This guide is adapted from the Lansing Community College (LCC) Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER) by Regina Gong, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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