Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium - digital or otherwise - that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions (https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer)
OER usability:
Governed by the principles of:
Title | Access | Information |
The Open Textbook Library | oercommons | Textbooks, lesson plans, lesson modules, lecture notes and slides, syllabi, assignments, podcasts and videos, training materials. Includes resources across all disciplines with use ratings to guide you. |
Teaching Commons | teachingcommons | The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, mulitimedia, and more |
OpenStax | openstax | One of OER's leading proponents is OpenStax, a nonprofit corporation based out of Rice University. OpenStax has created peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low-cost in print. Searchable via oercommons |
There are many rubrics for evaluating OER materials. They are evaluated with the same standards that guide the faculty in selecting teaching and learning materials.
Liaison Librarians are available to assist with finding and evaluating materials. You may also adopt the rubrics below: