Open Educational Resources (OER): What are Open Educational Resources?

This video is an adaptation of ‘What is OER?’ from The Council of Chief State School Officers under CC-BY-4.0. Featuring Barbara Soots, Layla Bonnot, Katie Steen and Nicole Allen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDTCd... This video is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

What is OER?  

According to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) “Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.

Open license refers to a license that respects the intellectual property rights of the copyright owner and provides permissions granting the public the rights to access, re-use, re-purpose, adapt, and redistribute educational materials.”  

https://www.unesco.org/en/communication-information/open-solutions/open-educational-resources

Open Educational Resources  - The Five R’s 

1. Retain = the right to make, own, and control copies of the content
2. Reuse = the right to use the content in a wide range of ways
3. Revise = the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
4. Remix = the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new
5. Redistribute = the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others

From the OER Starter Kit by Abbey Elder, https://iastate.pressbooks.pub/oerstarterkit/chapter/copyright/

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