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Definition
“OER are 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.” (Hewlett Foundation, 2019)
For the purposes of this course, we understand OER as materials that are not only freely available in either printed or digital form, but also those that allow for sharing and editing (i.e. the creation of one’s own work by using them). We consider OER to be all resources that are listed under an open license, which makes the aforementioned possible.
LITERATURE: Hewlett Foundation. OER Defined. https://www.hewlett.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/OER-strategy-memo.pdf