Preparation for Teaching and Learning in Uncertain Times: Open Educational Resources

"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." [1]

The Open Education movement is built around the 5Rs of Open Content [2]

• Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content
• Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways
• Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
• Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new
• Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others