Open Educational Resources (OERs) are high-quality teaching, learning, and research resources that either:

reside in the public domain, or
have been released under an intellectual property license, such as a Creative Commons license, that permits their free use and repurposing by others in accordance with the "5 R's" (you'll read more about these soon)

OERs include, but are not limited to, full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, faculty-created content, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge*

Please take a brief moment (2 minutes 14 seconds) to watch the video below:

Content on this page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license

*AB-798, section 67423, adapted from the Hewlett Foundation definition