Open educational resources (OER) are freely available online teaching and learning materials that can be used and reused without cost. OER benefit individuals by improving access to quality resources, education systems by lowering costs through collaborative development and reuse of existing materials, and education providers by reducing costs and allowing more diverse curriculums. OER include full courses, textbooks, modules, lessons, tests, videos, and software that reside in the public domain or are released under open licenses permitting free use.

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