Open Educational Resources (OER): What Are OER?
The Basics
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge" (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation)
Campus Resources
- SUNY CCC Center for Teaching Innovation & Excellence (CTIE)The CTIE encourages the use of OERs in education to replace traditional publisher-created textbooks for many reasons, the most important being the cost-saving to the students.
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