Open Educational Resources

2.  Are teaching and learning materials
that are freely available online for
everyone to use
 A open license that permits no cost
 Are teaching, learning, research
resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under
an intellectual property license that
permits their free use

3. Why OER?
 Is a sustainable educational practice,
both at macro and micro levels
 Macro: improves educational access
and can lower system cost
 Micro: avoids reinventing wheels and
frees academic staff time

4. Benefits of OER: individuals
 Improved access –including to the
world’s best quality learning resources

5. Benefits of OER: providers
 Lower costs through collaborative
development and reusing existing
resources
 More diversified curriculum

6. Benefits of OER: education
system
 Improved access through more
affordable courses and programmes
 Higher quality learning resources
 Lower costs through lower support to
learners and lower level of subsides to
providers

7. What are Open
Educational
Resources?

8.  Shared content and resources
◦ Full courses
◦ Textbooks
◦ Modules
◦ lessons/lesson plans
◦ Tests
◦ Videos
◦ Supplementary study materials
◦ Software

9. What are their value principle
 Open Access, Open Source,
 The 4Rs,
 Reuse
 Revise
 Remix and
 Redistribute

10. Types of Educational
Resources