LibGuides: OER: Open Educational Resources: OER Introduction

Additional Resources

The Consortium of Community College Open Educational Resources
"CCCOER is a growing consortium of community and technical colleges committed to expanding access to education and increasing student success through adoption of open educational policy, practices, and resources. We provide a community and resources to learn about the evolving practice of open education."
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Open Education Global. (n.d.). Community of Practice for Open Education. CCCOER Consortium of Community Colleges For OER. Retrieved September 04, 2020, from https://www.cccoer.org/
UNESCO - OER
"The Recommendation on OER - adopted unanimously by the UNESCO General Conference at its 40th session in November 2019 - supports the creation, use and adaptation of inclusive and quality OER, and facilitates international cooperation in this field.
The Recommendation is the only existing international standard-setting instrument on OER and is the fruit of over a decade of efforts to bring together a wide diversity of stakeholders. "
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UNESCO. (2019). UNESCO Recommendation on OER. UNESCO. Retrieved February 23, 2021, from https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer/recommendation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
"a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation that advances ideas and supports institutions to promote a better world."
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William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. (2020). About Us. William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Retrieved September 04, 2020, from https://hewlett.org/about-us/

Open Educational Resources:
are any resource used in learning, teaching, and research that are free, and legal, to use. More importantly: OER are free to students.

The Consortium of Community College Open Educational Resources defines OER as:
“... educational materials that include permission for anyone to use, modify and share at no cost.”

UNESCO defines OER's as:
Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation defines OER as:
Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”

The 5 R's of OER(s): retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute