What is Open Educational Resources

Freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.

These are teaching and learning materials that are either in the public domain or are released under a license that allows them to be freely used, changed, or shared.

A textbook or other educational resources that is accessible for students for free or at a reduced cost.

Online materials developed by faculty members and made available to be incorporated into courses and materials by faculty members at other institutions.

refer to resources freely available from their creators with open licenses, which allow the use, reuse, and modification of the resource.

Term first adopted at UNESCO’s 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use, and under some licenses remix, improve, and redistribute. Open educational resources include: learning content: full courses, course materials, content modules, learning objects, collections, and journals; tools: software to support the creation, delivery, use, and improvement of open learning content including searching and organization of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and online learning communities; and implementation resources: intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design-principles, and localization of content.

Educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under creative commons licenses, which allows users re-mix, improve and redistribute on the Web.

Open educational resources (OER) are those freely available. They often include a CC license.

Open educational resources are those freely available and often come with a CC license.

These are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license where researchers can access, use, adapt and redistribute at no cost no or limited restrictions.

Resources that are publicly available, free of charge.

Openly accessible and freely reusable materials for teaching and learning purposes.

Free learning and research materials that are available for everyone to use without paying it.

Teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created to be free for the end user to retain, distribute, and in most cases, modify.

The use of various software programs is encouraged for users to freely use to meet specific needs. Open educational resources (OER) encourage the same principle: users have the ability to download, modify, or use as is the resource for their own use in accordance with the terms of service as noted on each particular OER’s website.

These are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.

Open educational resources are defined as teaching, learning, or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an intellectual property license that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution ( UNESCO, 2011 ).

These are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.

Freely accessible educational materials used by anyone who has access to the internet connection in order to fulfil different teaching or learning purposes.

These are learning materials that can be accessed, modified, and edited since the original creators would have given consent to do so. These resources grant the opportunity for instructors, students, and learners to access the information online and free of charge.

Educational resources that are freely accessible, adaptable, and distributable that can be in various file formats.

Teaching and learning resources in any medium, digital or otherwise, that permit no-cost access, use, reuse and repurposing by others with no or limited restrictions (McGreal, 2016 AU62: The in-text citation "McGreal, 2016" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).