Open Educational Resources (OER) are openly-licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes - without cost or access barriers. Open educational resources include textbooks, full courses, course materials, modules, streaming videos, tests, software, study aides, games, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. (source: Hewlett Foundation)
"An Introduction to Open Educational Resources" by Abbey Elder (3:46)
The term "open educational resources" describes a copyrightable work that is licensed in a manner that provides users with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities:
The 5R Permissions of OER was created by David Wiley and published freely under a CC BY 4.0 license at http://opencontent.org/definition/.
Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER) are closely related. Both are freely available with no paywalls
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