Library Guides: Open Educational Resources (OERs): What are OERs

What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

"An Introduction to Open Educational Resources" by Abbey Elder is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Using OERs

Adapted from Open Education: A "Simple" Introduction by David Wiley released under CC-By license

1. Reuse - Content can be reused in its unaltered original format

2. Retain - Copies of content can be retained for personal archives or reference

3. Revise - Content can be modified or altered to suit specific needs

4. Remix - Content can be adapted with other similar content to create something new

5. Redistribute - Content can be shared with anyone else in its original or altered format

Finding OER Textbooks

Mason OER Metafinder
The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. Unlike other OER discovery sites (e.g, OER Commons, OASIS, MERLOT, OpenStax, etc.) with our Metafinder you aren’t searching a static database that we’ve built. Instead, the OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS)
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,753 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
OER Commons
Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning content through engaging educators in new participatory processes and effective technologies for engaging with learning.
LibreTexts Free The Textbook
The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
MERLOT
The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers
Openstax - Rice University
We publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.

Creating and Remixing OER Textbooks

Iowa State University Digital Press
TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR CREATING OER
OER Commons Open Author: Open Author helps you build Open Educational Resources, lesson plans, and courses to share openly on the OER Commons platform.
Improve and change: remix resources to customize learning for your needs
Pressbooks: The Open Creation Platform
Pressbooks is a simple book formatting software.
LibreTexts Free The Textbook
The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.

Open Educational Resources (OERs)

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What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

Using OERs

Finding OER Textbooks

Creating and Remixing OER Textbooks

Research On OER