Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching materials that are free of cost and openly licensed so that they can be re-used and modified by others.
OER can consist of any type of teaching resource not just textbooks. They also include things such as syllabi, assessments, videos, modules, and even full courses.
OER should allow for other people to do the following with the work:
- Retain - right to make, own, and control copies of the content
- Reuse - right to use the unaltered content in a wide variety of ways
- Revise - right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content to better meet your needs
- Remix - right to combine the original and revised content with other material to create something new
- Redistribute - right to share copies of the original content, revisions, or remixes with others
