Open educational resources

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Open educational resources (OER)[1] are teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own, share, and in most cases, modify.[2][3] The term "OER" describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-mix, improve, and redistribute under some licenses.[4] These are designed to reduce accessibility barriers by implementing best practices in teaching and to be adapted for local unique contexts.[5][6]

The development and promotion of open educational resources is often motivated by a desire to provide an alternative or enhanced educational paradigm.[7]

  1. ^ "UNESCO Recommendation on OER". UNESCO. 14 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Blicher, H., Essmiller, K., Reed, M., & Santiago, A. (2021, February 24). Open educational resources and affordability: Foundations of OER. (Webinar)". American Library Association. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  3. ^ Pownall, Madeleine; Azevedo, Flávio; König, Laura M.; Slack, Hannah R.; Evans, Thomas Rhys; Flack, Zoe; Grinschgl, Sandra; Elsherif, Mahmoud M.; Gilligan-Lee, Katie A.; de Oliveira, Catia M. F.; Gjoneska, Biljana; Kalandadze, Tamara; Button, Katherine; Ashcroft-Jones, Sarah; Terry, Jenny (May 2023). "Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes". Royal Society Open Science. 10 (5): 221255. Bibcode:2023RSOS...1021255P. doi:10.1098/rsos.221255. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 10189598. PMID 37206965.
  4. ^ Bell, Steven. "Research Guides: Discovering Open Educational Resources (OER): Home". guides.temple.edu. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  5. ^ Smith, Marshall S. (2 January 2009). "Opening Education". Science. 323 (5910): 89–93. Bibcode:2009Sci...323...89S. doi:10.1126/science.1168018. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 19119226. S2CID 11073287.
  6. ^ Mishra, M., Dash, M. K., Sudarsan, D., Santos, C. A. G., Mishra, S. K., Kar, D., ... & da Silva, R. M. (2022). Assessment of trend and current pattern of open educational resources: A bibliometric analysis. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 48(3), 102520.
  7. ^ Sanchez, Claudia. "The use of technological resources for education: a new professional competency for teachers". Intel® Learning Series blog. Intel Corporation. Archived from the original on 29 March 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.

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