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HEP Partner Resources
OER
Open Educational Resources
What Is OER ?
"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." The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Open Educational Resources, or OER, can include full courses, course materials, textbooks, data, video and audio recordings, testing materials, articles and other materials that can be successfully implemented into classroom instruction.
Possibilities of OER
OER
Benefits Students
OER displays the ability to create, and utilize high quality, relevant and up to date learning materials. Allowing the adaptation of materials from multiple sources allows students to be active participants in the education process. OER provides institutions, educators, and students access to low or no cost materials while still allowing all areas of necessary instruction to be covered.
OER benefits students in complex and diverse ways. OER materials are freely accessible and in the public domain. These materials allow students to utilize multiple formats for learning purposes, and caters to every way a student learns.
By utilizing OER resources, a student is able to gain a multifaceted understanding of resources and information presented to them in the classroom. Through this process students are also able to work on enhancing and adapting the information for a more in-depth understanding of their lessons.
The resources utilized by students in OER courses include; textbooks, articles, wikis, online lectures, government websites, and course materials from other institutions.