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What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?


OER are any type of educational material freely available for teachers and students to use, adapt, share, and reuse.

Examples of OER 


Examples include but not limited to learning content (such as lesson plans, assignments, textbooks, exams, and videos) as well as tools for learning (like software for creating videos and websites, course management systems, word processing programs, and training materials).

Open Educational Resources (OER)


Follow these four modules to learn how to find, adapt, adopt, create and publish Open Educational Resources.

Test your OER knowledge

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This guide and all subsequent pages are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.