What is Open Educational Resources

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The term accepted by the international higher education community through UNESCO to refer to such projects as MIT’s OpenCourseWare, Rice University’s Connexions Project, and other resources created electronically and made available worldwide for no cost. Learn more in: Advancing the Effective Use of Technology in Higher Education

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Freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. Learn more in: Learning Ecosystem for Open and Distance Learning

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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. Learn more in: The Changing Role of Library and Information Professionals in the New Normal: Towards a New Trajectory

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A textbook or other educational resources that is accessible for students for free or at a reduced cost. Learn more in: Blockchain and the Research Libraries: Expanding Interlibrary Loan and Protecting Privacy

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Online materials developed by faculty members and made available to be incorporated into courses and materials by faculty members at other institutions. Learn more in: The Administration of Online and Distance Education

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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. Learn more in: Case Study: A Collaborative of Content Designers and Developers

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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. Learn more in: Knowledge Media Tools to Foster Social Learning

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Open educational resources (OER) are those freely available. They often include a CC license. Learn more in: Let the Learners Take the Lead for Their Lifelong Learning Journey

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Open educational resources are those freely available and often come with a CC license. Learn more in: Challenges and Opportunities for Active and Hybrid Learning related to UNESCO Post 2015

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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. Learn more in: Opportunities and Challenges Offered by the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Academic Libraries

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Resources that are publicly available, free of charge. Learn more in: Reshaping Preservice Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge With Primary Source Documents

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Openly accessible and freely reusable materials for teaching and learning purposes. Learn more in: Building, Sustaining, and Growing Multidisciplinary, Multi-Departmental Partnerships to Teach Open Science Tools

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Free learning and research materials that are available for everyone to use without paying it. Learn more in: Advantages and Challenges of Using OERs in Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages: Case Study From Croatia

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Teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created to be free for the end user to retain, distribute, and in most cases, modify. Learn more in: Using Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Modify Library OER Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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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. Learn more in: The Ethical Use of Online Content in Teaching and Learning

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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. Learn more in: The Power of Inclusion: Embracing Multilingual E-Learning Opportunities in Science Education

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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 ). Learn more in: Massive Open Online Courses: Promoting Intercultural Communication

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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. Learn more in: Supporting EFL Science Students Through a Multilingual Approach to Blended Learning

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Freely accessible educational materials used by anyone who has access to the internet connection in order to fulfil different teaching or learning purposes. Learn more in: MOOCs in the Language Classroom: Using MOOCs as Complementary Materials to Support Self-Regulated Language Learning

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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. Learn more in: Open Educational Resources in Africa: Opportunities, Pathways, and Challenges

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Educational resources that are freely accessible, adaptable, and distributable that can be in various file formats. Learn more in: Considerations for Future Technology Development Based on EFL Teachers' Integration of Technology

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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. ). Learn more in: The State of Access in Open and Distance Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa