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"Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OERs can be full courses, course materials, lesson plans, open textbooks, learning objects, videos, games, tests, software, or any other tool, material, or technique that supports access to knowledge.

Open Educational Resources are broadly considered to meet the “5Rs Framework,” meaning that users are free to:

Retain: Users have the right to make, archive, and "own" copies of the content;
Reuse: Content can be reused in its unaltered form;
Revise: Content can be adapted, adjusted, modified or altered;
Remix: The original or revised content can be combined with other content to create something new;
Redistribute: Copies of the content can be shared with others in its original, revised or remixed form."

Excerpted from SPARC. See more at: https://sparcopen.org/open-education/

OER Myths

http://mythbusting.oerpolicy.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/OER_Mythbusting.pdf

License

The UNH Open Educational Resources research guide is maintained by Eleta Exline and Jennifer Carroll and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution--Share Alike 4.0 United States License. Additional subject resources were curated by Cheryl Wheelock and Emily Talpin.

Portions of this guide were adapted with permission from the UMass Amherst Library Open Educational Resources guide.

Contact

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OER Ambassadors Pilot Assessment Reports

OER Project, Fall 2016 Final Assessment Report
This report covers:
1. Textbook Cost Savings
2. Student Perceptions of the OER Materials
3. Student Learning Outcomes
4. Faculty Perceptions of the OER Materials
OER Ambassadors 2015 Pilot Final Report
This report covers:
1. Textbook Cost Savings
2. Student Perceptions of the OER Materials
3. Student Learning Outcomes
4. Faculty Perceptions of the OER Pilot Program

More about OER

Community College Consortium for OER
"Our mission is expanding access to education by promoting awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER). Over 250 colleges have joined the consortium and many more participate in our activities and use resources posted here."
Creative Commons : Education
"The Education program at Creative Commons works to minimize barriers, supporting the CC mission through consulting, education, and outreach on using the right technologies and licenses to maximize the benefits of open educational resources (OER) and the return on investment in publicly funded education and research programs."
Hewlett Foundation : OER
"Since 2002, the Hewlett Foundation has worked with OER grantees to improve education globally by making high-quality academic materials openly available on the Internet."
OER Handbook
"The purpose of this handbook is to provide a guide for those who are just getting started in the creation of open educational resources."
OER Self-Publishing Guide
Description: The BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide is a reference for individuals or groups wanting to write and self-publish an open textbook.
Open Educational Resources infoKit
"This infoKit aims to both inform and explain OERs and the issues surrounding them for managers, academics and those in learning support. It is aimed at senior managers, learning technologists, technical staff and educators with an interest in releasing OERs to the educational community."
Open Education Consortium
"The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education."
Opening the Curriculum
"This report, funded by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation with additional support from Pearson, examines the attitudes, opinions, and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) among teaching faculty in U.S. higher education."
Open Professionals Education Network
"OPEN is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and offers free services aligned with the DOL’s grant requirements."
SPARC : Open Education
"Educational materials are an important output of the research process, and SPARC believes that Open Educational Resources (OER) maximize the power of the Internet to improve teaching and learning, and increase access to education."
WikiEducator
The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative planning of education projects linked with the development of free content.