Open Educational Resources (OER)
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OER
What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
OERs are educational materials both print and digital that are created by educators with the intention of sharing with other educators. Published materials are often licensed to ensure the author(s) receive financial credit each time their work is purchased, say in a bookstore each semester. OERs are licensed in a way that enables educators from around the world to locate, adapt, and use various materials from others in their own classrooms.
OERs can come in a variety of formats:
- Primary sources - Images, video, and sound recordings. Some sources are in the public domain, while others have been licensed as open by their creators. In addition, many texts that are in the public domain are available online/electronically.
- Learning content - created content such as lectures, videos, and course exercises.
Why OERs?
Librarians would like to see the trend towards OER materials center stage since we directly observe how many students are unable to or are unwilling to purchase expensive textbooks for an 8-week or 16-week course. OSUIT is partnering with OpenStax to reduce costs for students.
The Open Education Movement was built around the 5Rs of Open:
- Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content
- Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
- Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
- Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
- Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)
- BCCampus Open Ed (This link opens in a new window)
The B.C. Open Textbook Project was created to make higher education more accessible by reducing student cost through the use of openly licensed textbooks.
- Ebook Central (Formerly Ebrary) (This link opens in a new window)
When you need credible content from authoritative, scholarly sources. Ebook Central delivers, with breadth and depth of ebooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers.
- epubBooks (This link opens in a new window)
Choose from their hand picked collection of the best public domain books to be found in the English language from the last five hundred years.
- Google Books (This link opens in a new window)
A service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned. On Google Books, you can read books and magazines, download them for later, cite them and translate them.
- ManyBooks (This link opens in a new window)
ManyBooks was established in 2004 with the vision to provide an extensive library of books in digital format for free on the Internet.
- National Academies Press (This link opens in a new window)
The National Academies Press (NAP) offers more than 8,500 titles in PDF format. Almost all of these PDFs can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book.* See About PDFs for more information on accessing their digital content.
- Open Book Publishers (This link opens in a new window)
Founded in 2008 by a small group of academics at the University of Cambridge, Open Book Publishers publishes monographs and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. All books are available to read for free online.
- Open Stax (This link opens in a new window)
Open access textbooks through Rice University's Open Educational Resources program
- Project Gutenberg (This link opens in a new window)
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks
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