An open educational resource (OER) is a digital material that can be re-used for teaching, learning, research and more, made available free through open licenses. This allows uses of the materials that would not be easily permitted under copyright alone (Hylén, 2007:30).
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 (The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2012)
Referernces List
Hylén, Jan. 2007. Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources. Paris, France: OECD Publishing.
OER defined". The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. 2012-08. http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
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