Open Educational Resources (OERs): Home

Open Education "...is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge.

Open Education Resources 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. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge." - The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Examples of OERs inlcude:

• Electronic textbooks (peer-reviewed and updated) with accompanying learning materials such as quizzes, worksheets, multimedia resources, and lecture materials
• Full university courses including presentations, reading materials, lecture notes, videos, and homework assignments
• Interactive mini-lessons and simulations about a specific topic, 

An introduction to OERs:

via WikiEducator