Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are licensed in ways that allow us to legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.
OERs include courses, textbooks, assignments, tests, projects, software, audio, video and animation.
Source: UNESCO and Open Education Resource Foundation
OERs provide access to all kinds of resources for the educational benefit of people from all backgrounds in our global community.
OERs allow:
If you create an OER, you can retain ownership of your work but still allow others to use, share, and remix it. You can assign a Creative Commons (CC) licence so that users must attribute you for your work.
Organisations that provide guidance on OERs include:
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