Types of Open Educational Resources (OER)

Types of Open Educational Resources

Dr. Ankuran DuttaProgramme Officer, CEMCA

Session Outline

What is OER?

Types of OER

OER

Open educational or learning resources are...

“teaching, learning and research

materials in any medium, digital or

otherwise, that reside in the public

domain or have been released under an

open license that permits no-cost access,

use, adaptation and redistribution by

others with no or limited restrictions”.

any educational resources, which are openly available for use by educators and students, without an accompanying need to pay royalties or licence fees.

What are their value principles Open Access, Open Source, The 4Rs: Reuse Revise Remix and Redistribute

Types of OER

OER based on Media - Text/Print Visual/ Photograph Audio Video/ Audio-Visual Animation

OER based on Quality - Self-published Reviewed Peer-reviewed Option of Post-review

OER based on Authorship - Individual Open authoring Collaborative work

OER based on Presentation- Slide sharing Class presentation E-content presentation for OER Formal public presentations

OER based on Licensing- Copyright protected Creative Commons Public Domain

OER based on Nature/ Format - Reading materials Text/Units Modular Course

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