Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.
The terms “open educational resources” and “open content” describe any copyrightable work that is either in the public domain or licensed in a manner that provides users with free and perpetual permission to do the following:
Please Note: OER traditionally excludes software, which is described by other terms like “open source”.
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High quality, open access, peer-reviewed books.
Conducts a real-time, simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials.
Provides access to curated online learning materials and content creation tools. Designed primarily for staff and students of higher education.
Searches open content from many sources. You can filter your search by subject and resource type.
OER Commons is a searchable, public digital library of open educational resources.
Tertiary education textbooks developed and peer-reviewed by educators.
An open source content management system designed for creating books. It is based on WordPress.
Supports each part of the publishing process, from drafting documents, conducting peer review, and hosting entire journal and book websites.
Open Author
Lets you combine text, pictures, sound, files and video. Saved as openly licensed educational resources, you can share them with educators from around the world.
Australian and New Zealand initiative to establish a university culture that supports the use and adoption of open textbooks.
Reference for individuals or groups wanting to write and self-publish an open textbook.
Learn how to build or participate in collaborative education, focusing on publication and development of materials.