Educational Technology/Open Educational Resources

Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes.

Pros

• Open educational resources provide free courses, textbooks, modules, lessons, collections, etc. that are available for commercial and sometimes only non-commercial use.

Cons

• Relevant content may be difficult to locate.
• Quality varies depending on the source.
• Content may or may not be peer reviewed.

Examples

• MERLOT
• Wikibooks
• Wikimedia Commons
• Wikiversity

See Also

• Open Educational Resources
• Wikipedia: Open educational resources

References

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