This paper presents the results of collaborative research between open textbook provider OpenStax College (OSC) and the OER Research Hub (OERRH), a Hewlett funded mixed methods open research project examining the impact of open educational resources (OER) on learning and teaching.

The paper focuses primarily on the results of two surveys that were conducted with educators using a range of OSC open textbooks during 2013 and 2014/2015. The results of this research shows that OER such as OSC enables a majority of educators to better respond to student needs whilst often making teaching easier and in some instances changing teaching practices. Although this paper does not focus on the impact of OER on students, a majority of educators surveyed perceive an increase in student satisfaction when using OER such as OSC and believe that OSC are saving students money.

This book will introduce you to the idea of Open Educational Resources (OER), where to find them, why we recommend using them, and how to go about creating your own.

This 14-module open course was collaboratively designed and delivered on the Open University UK OpenLearn site in June 2018. The mini-MOOC (massive open online course) was designed to provide participants with an introductory-level tour of open educational practices (OEP) and open educational resources (OER) for use in their personal education context (whatever that looked like for them).

These are full-course openly licensed resources for districts interested in exploring OER options when considering core instructional materials for district adoption. Course materials are available for online viewing or download.

I am learning about using te publisher on OER Commons.  Testing it out.

The National Forum Open Licensing Toolkit provides a detailed description of Creative Commons (CC) licenses as well as a 4-step guide to choosing, creating and adding CC licences to resources in order to make them OER, i.e. able to be shared, reused and adapted in different institutional, disciplinary and programme contexts.

The focus of many open education projects is to provide access to education. But what does access mean? If the materials are not accessible for each and every student, do they fulfill the mandate to deliver fully open education? The open education movement has helped people in different parts of the world access content that they would otherwise not be able to view or interact with. Open education resources reduce costs for students and allow for greater flexibility for instructors. Accessibility can help push the movement even further forward.

The goal of the OER Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the needed resources needed to each content creator, instructor, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open and accessible educational resource — one that is accessible for all students.

Your action plan is an internal planning document for how you will convince key internal and external constituents to support for the work that you are doing. It is intended as a living document that you can revisit as you review the results of your advocacy activities and refine your advocacy strategy. Think of it as a skeleton you can work to fill in.

This is an evolving resource intended to provide inspiration for instructors who use Pressbooks and Open Educational Resources for their teaching.

This guide is currently in the open creation stage, meaning that it is in-progress, but openly licensed.[1] In other words, this is a resource in flux: we will be composing, revising, and reorganizing these materials over the course of the coming months.

This OER Course is designed to introduce faculty and staff on OER basics, copyright information, and other key topics relating to OER.Please complete the online OER course individually or with a partner.  Since this is an online course, you can work at your own pace.  You will be responsible for all material covered within the course.  The course will take around 1 hour to complete.

In 2021, the Student Senate at Roger Williams University passed a resolution to initiate coursemarking in RogerCentral, the portal in which students search and register for classes. This resolution is licensed CC-BY, in hopes that other student governments can benefit from seeing model language.

These slides and handout were developed for a 60-min. cross-training OER session with college staff, and are therefore very general in nature. These materials could be adapted for any general introduction to OER basics and Creative Commons licenses.

This is a template intended to be used by participants in the OER Design Challenge to copy, remix, upload and insert media, write, describe, align to standards, license and publish their remixed OER.

This is the second module in our training series that will provide participants with an introduction to OER evaluation tools. We have designed these modules to first spark the learner's interest in the topics covered and then dig deeper into the content through presentations, storytelling, and demonstrations of the tools. We will offer opportunities for learners to practice exploring the resources and tools, and reflect on how they might use them in their work.

What is this? This is a free and open course designed to nutshell open-resource philosophy as well as encourage instructors to participate in generating, collecting, licensing, and sharing free and modifiable educational resources.

Whew! That was a mouthful. Perhaps a catchier intro is necessary (take your own advice, teacher). Start again.

What is this? This is a free and open course designed to let you in on some cutting-edge ideas for improving student learning while actually reducing your long-term workload and keeping your use of materials legal in the information age.

Too good to be true? Not at all.

With open educational resources, you've got the whole world ready to back you up. Think back on all the times you've thought, "Wow. It would be great if I could just pluck a handout about parallelism out of the ether and use it as I see fit without worrying about getting sued." Now read this: You can with OER, and you don't have to worry about stepping on anyone's copyright toes.

Byte: Sometimes you'll see a sentence or two emboldened like this. These "Bytes" are vital points, so read them!

Depending on your method of operation and internet connection speed, this course should take somewhere between 2 and 3 hours to complete.

This is a template intended to be used by OER Fellows to copy, remix, upload and insert media, write, describe, align to standards, license and publish their OER Fellowship Projects.

The topic deals with the different open licenses to be used for OERs.