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What is OER?
Open Educational Resources
What is OER?
Open Educational Resources
Definition
Why Use OER?
Instructional Services Librarian
Evangeline Reid
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Definition
"Open-licensed digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators and students to use and reuse for teaching, learning, and research"
*Our definition is adapted from the OECD.
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Why Use OER?
What Exactly is a 'Free' Textbook, and Other Questions About Open Resources
by Beth McMurtrie in the Chronicle of Higher Ed.
The Review Project
A summary of all known empirical research on the impacts of OER adoption.
Open Educational Resources and College Textbook Choices
by John Hilton III published in the journal Education Technology Research and Development.
