Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and lack access barriers, and which carry legal permission for open use.* They include a multitude of formats including textbooks, full courses, modules, videos, labs, assignments, and assessments.
OERs are licensed in such a way that enables adopters to utilize the 5 Rs:
Creative Commons licenses are often applied to OERs to license these rights to adopters.
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