According to Cable Green, Director of Open Education at Creative Commons, "Open Educational Resources are online or printed materials that are free and openly licensed. These resources may be used or repurposed as teaching, learning, and research resources by others. OER can include course content, textbooks, streamed content, assessments, and other learning materials. High-quality OER provides access to knowledge and content that may have been cost prohibitive to many previously when the material was only provided in an expensive textbook. OER promises to drive down the costs to students and improve knowledge and best practices through collaboration."
WCET Resources
Frontiers Blog
Webcast Archives
Events
Media
- WCET Interview with Paul Stacey, Creative Commons Part 1 (March 2016)
- WCET Interview with Paul Stacey, Creative Commons Part 2 (March 2016)
- 2015 WOW Winner: University of Maryland University College: Open Educational Resources Iniatiative
- 2014 WOW Winner: Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Extended Learning Institute: OER-Based Associate Degree Project
- 2013 WOW Winner: Lane Community College
External Resources
Additional Resources
- Q&A with TJ Bliss: It’s an Exciting Time For Open Educational Resources
- BCcampus Open Textbook Project
- California Open Online Library for Education
- College Open Textbooks
- Hewlett Foundation
- ISKME OER Commons
- Merlot: Resources on OER and Accessibility
- OER Research Toolkit
- Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later - Jan 2017, by David Wiley
- The Open Educational Resources Ecosystem (PDF) - Hewlett Foundation
- Open Education Consortium
- OpenStax
- Open Textbook Network
- Policy Report from Education Commission of the States: Open Source Textbooks Can Help Drive Down the Overall Cost …
- SkillsCommons
- SPARC
- What Is OER? - Creative Commons