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Welcome to the WCC Library Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER).
"Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER can be textbooks, full courses, lesson plans, videos, tests, software, or any other tool, material, or technique that supports access to knowledge"
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) = teaching, learning, and research resources that are free for 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.
This empowers faculty to:
- discover open resources for teaching and learning,
- identify basic principles of open licensing and its application(s),
- apply mechanisms for open resource adoption (e.g. reuse/remix),
- utilize existing open resources in instructional settings,
- create new open resources for academic use, and
- conduct research on open academic practices.