Open Education Resources

Basic characteristics of OER

Prominent OER researcher David Wiley (2014) lists several characteristics that a resource should fulfill to be considered an OER: 

• The right to be reused. 

• Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, edit, 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. 

• Distribute. The right to share copies of the original content, revisions, or remixes with others

(e.g. give a copy of the content to a friend).

• Retain. The possibility of downloading and saving content.

LITERATURE: Wiley, D., Bliss, T. J., & McEwen, M. (2014). Open Educational Resources: a review of the literature. In Handbook of research on educational communications and technology (781-789). New York: Springer.