OER

OER or Open Educational Resources 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. It is the leading type of open content in the field of education.

Definition

The term OER describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-mix, improve and redistribute under some licenses. The development and promotion of open educational resources is often motivated by a desire to provide an alternate or enhanced educational paradigm.

History

The idea of open educational resources (OER) has numerous working definitions. The term was firstly coined at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on Open Courseware and designates "teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. Open licensing is built within the existing framework of intellectual property rights as defined by relevant international conventions and respects the authorship of the work".

Types of OER

OER includes learning content, software tools to develop, use, and distribute content, and implementation resources such as open licences. This broad range of content and tools can be used in various settings, both in the classroom and for self-guided learning.

Benefits of OER

The use of OER can expand access to education, particularly to secondary and post-secondary education. OER can also act as a supplement to curriculum, as it provides additional content, perspectives, and a wide array of practices that can be implemented. OER can also encourage curriculum development that is participatory, collaborative, and responsive to student needs.

Challenges of OER

While OER has many potential benefits, there are also challenges that need to be addressed. These include issues related to the quality of OER, the lack of a universal standard for OER, and the need for sustainable models of OER production and distribution.

See also

• Open content
• Open educational practices
• Open licensing
• Open source software
• OpenCourseWare

External links

• OER Commons
• OER Quality Project

OER Resources
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