OER: Open Educational Resources
Overview
OER stands for Open Educational Resources. These are educational materials that are freely available to use, adapt, and share. OERs include things like textbooks, lesson plans, quizzes, and videos, which can be used in a variety of educational settings, from K-12 to higher education.
OERs are typically made available under an open license, such as a Creative Commons license, which allows users to access, use, and adapt the materials without the need for permission or payment.
There are many ways that educators can use OERs in their teaching. Some examples include:
- Using OER textbooks as a replacement for traditional, expensive textbooks.
- Adapting OER lesson plans and activities to align with specific learning objectives or to better suit the needs of the students.
- Incorporating OER videos and other multimedia resources into lesson plans to make instruction more engaging and interactive.
- Collaborating with other educators to create and share OERs that can be used by educators around the world.
- Using OER assessment tools, like quizzes, to evaluate student learning.
By using OERs, educators can save money on instructional materials and have more control over the content and design of their curriculum. OERs also offer the opportunity for teachers and students to customize and share learning resources, promoting collaboration and innovation in education.
General OER Resources
Access various instructor materials such as books, infographics, multimedia files, and cases. Available to SWAGÊÓƵ faculty and staff.
Access various instructor materials such as books, multimedia files, cases and drug monographs. Available to SWAGÊÓƵ faculty and staff.
This site links to numerous other digital libraries both from universities and varied organizations. Its impressive scope is broken down by topic.
One of the original and largest resources for open courseware.
Browse and search from various OER sources.
A compiled list of open access images by Stephen R Aylward, PhD.
Thousands of pieces of media of all different types, arranged into large projects.
Created and managed by the CSU system, this repository has its own health sciences section.
Lessons created by TED animators. Filter by subjects to find relevant Heath lessons.