Open Educational Resources

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Open Educational Resources (OER) are instructional materials that are made available to instructors and/or learners for free.

  • See examples of OER and what you can do with them
  • Many open educational resources have a public license (such as a Creative Commons license) that specifies how the materials may be used, adapted, and shared.
  • Open Educational Resources have been funded in large part by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which has given more than $100 million over the last 8 years to MIT, Yale, and others "to increase access to knowledge for all and improve the practices of teaching and learning" (Hafner).
  • MIT
  • Academic Earth
  • Open Culture
  • OER Commons
  • Connexions
  • Open Learning Initiative
  • NCLOR