Open Educational Resources (OER)
This guide provides information and resources to help support you learn about OER, find and evaluate existing OER, adopt OER, and create OER projects.
- Open Education @ UCalgary
- LCR Open Education Workshops & Events
- About Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Finding OER
- Adopting, Developing, & Evaluating OER
- Open Education Alberta Publishing Service: Creating OER in Pressbooks
- Open Educational Practices: OER-Enabled and Open Pedagogy
- Copyright & Open Licensing
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Contact Us
Open Educational Resources (OER) are:
Learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others (UNESCO, 2021).
Watch the video below to learn more about OER and how OER can benefit the UCalgary community, including students, faculty, and instructors.
Introduction to OER: Resources for Learning about OER
- SPARC overivew of OERsA good overview of OERs from Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) which is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.
- OER MythbustingThis resource from the OER policy for Europe project is both a mythbusting guide and a quick introduction to OER.
This guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) unless otherwise noted. Content adapted from work done by BC Campus, Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, George Washington University and more.
- Last Updated: Sep 10, 2024 4:42 PM
- URL: https://libguides.ucalgary.ca/guides/OER
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