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This page will pull together information on Open Educational Resources.
According to the JISC Open Educational Resources [OER] infokit there is no one, standard definition however, the following broad definition of OERs from OER Commons seems to be generally accepted by the community:
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.
The definition proposed by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation stresses issues related to licensing and copyright:
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 or re-purposing by others.
The OLCOS Roadmap 2012 identifies the following core attributes of OERs:
- that access to open content (including metadata) is provided free of charge for educational institutions, content services, and the end-users such as teachers, students and lifelong learners;
- that the content is liberally licensed for re-use in educational activities, favourably free from restrictions to modify, combine and repurpose the content
- Free Software/Open Source software)
Stuff from Anna to RP
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