Open Educational Resources

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The cost of textbooks is a social justice issue.
We can be part of the change.

Open Education encompasses resources, tools, and practices that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers and can be fully used, shared, and adapted in the digital environment. Open Education maximizes the power of the internet to make education more affordable, accessible, and effective.

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 any number of tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge, including: 

• full courses 
• modules 
• textbooks
• streaming video
• tests & quizzes
• software

Taylor Library supports the ideals of open access. If you are interested in exploring the possibility of using OER in your classroom, please contact your favorite librarian. 

The 5 R's of OER

Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content

Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)

Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)

Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)

Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)

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