Open Educational Resources (OER) refer to educational materials like textbooks, images, audio, and video that are licensed openly to be freely used, adapted, and shared. OERs can be revised, reused, remixed, and redistributed under open licenses like Creative Commons. They provide free access and permission for these "4R activities" to dramatically lower the cost of education. While using OER requires more initial work, it allows materials to be updated and personalized to student needs. OER is becoming more feasible as more materials receive peer review and institutions provide support for their creation and use.

1. OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES

2. “What are Open Educational Resources?”
Open Educational Resources (OER) is a term used to describe educational materials
including:
Images Sounds and music
Textbooks Entire course content
Audio lectures Video micro-lectures
That are either licensed under an open copyright license—for example, Creative
Commons—or in the public domain.
In both cases you have free (no-cost) access to the OER and free (no-cost)
permission to engage in the “4R” activities when using them.

3. 4R’s
•Revise: adapt and improve the OER so it better meets your needs
•Reuse: use the original or your new version of the OER in a wide
range of contexts
•Remix: combine or “mashup” the OER with other OER to produce
new materials
•Redistribute: make copies and share the original OER or your new
version with others
Dramatically-bringing-down-the-cost-of-education-with-oer – Center for American Progress
David Wiley, Cable Green, and Louis Soares | February 7, 2012 licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
“Education is a matter of sharing and the open educational resources approach is
designed specifically to enable extremely efficient and affordable sharing”

4. Why?

5. Arguments for OER
1. Student Savings
2. Update materials as needed
3. Students not dropping classes
because of textbook cost
4. Personalize and Engage with the
materials
5. Integrate Disciplines
6. Instant access to materials
From Campus Technology Complete Guide to OER
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Mocking bird argument by Chiltepinster

6. 1 Argument Against
More Work……
And a few others of course
Credibility of sources
Materials not being kept up to date
Uncertainty or confusion about licensing
Enormous task if trying to create a whole
course alone.
"Hard Work", editorial cartoon by George Herriman from Sunday, November 24 1907 (LA Examiner)
This media file is in the public domain in the United States.

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cK6DcCbo5k

8. OER IS COMPLETELY FEASIBLE
• More materials are being peer reviewed
• More peer to peer support within institutions
• Institutional support

9. Reference and Resources
Schaffhauser, D., (2014). Complete guide to
open educational resources. Campus
Technology, 27(12), 19-24. Retrieved from:
http://campustechnology.realviewdigital.com
/?
Faculty e-commons
http://facultyecommons.org/category/besto
pen/
Wiley, D., Green, C., Soares, L. (2012).
Dramatically bringing down the cost of
education with OER. Center for American
Progress. Retrieved from:
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/la
bor/news/2012/02/07/11167/dramatically-
bringing-down-the-cost-of-education-with-
oer/