What are Open Educational Resources?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available, reusable documents, assessments, courses media, textbooks, and more. They are shared by universities, colleges, individual instructors, and instructional designers to both assist instructors in teaching and to ease the financial burden for resources on students. This guide will provide you with links to find OER and links to create them yourself.
Why should faculty use or develop OERs?
OERs have a number of benefits. They can help with
See more in the Why OERs tab
How can the library help with OERs?
The library can assist you in:
For assistance with OERs, contact the Gumberg Library or Melody Diehl Detar, Instructional Design Librarian.
Links to OER collections
Links to OER textbooks
Other Guides to OERs
TRU Open Education Resources (OERs) Primer - an introduction to the purpose and use of OER, from Thompson Rivers University
Open Educational Resources - A guide to OER, from the Austin Community College District
Links to OER courses
Links to create OER
This guide was originally created by Marcia Rapchak, Ed.D.