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Open Chemistry Education Resources : Open Educational Resources
This guide contains information about open educational resources for chemistry.
Introduction to open educational resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are free and openly licensed educational materials. With students spending an average of over $1200 per year on textbooks, OER are one way to reduce costs for students.
A number of organizations have defined OER.
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation"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 full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge."
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)"OER includes learning content, software tools to develop, use, and distribute content, and implementation resources such as open licenses."
OER Materials "are offered freely and openly for educators, students, and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning, and research." - United Nationsl Educaitonal, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)"Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation."
- OER Commons"Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. Unlike copyrighted resources, OER have been authored or created by an individual or organization that chooses to retain few, if any, ownership rights."
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- Open Educational ResourcesThis guide to Open Educational Resources is managed the MERIT Group at University of Wisconsin-Madison