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Open Educational Resources: Home

This guide introduces OER, reasons for their utilization, and resources for their discovery.

OER Basics

                                                                                 

 

Open Educational Resources (OER) 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. (Unesco).  OER exist in a wide variety of formats including textbooks, video lectures, syllabi, and more, up to full courses such as MIT OpenCourseWare.   Recent surveys indicate their use has skyrocketed in higher education, often promoted by individual faculty initiative, governmental and institutional mandates, and student activism.

Discovering OER

OneSearch already includes many OER titles, but for more targeted searching go to Finding OER.

Let us help!

Faculty and students who would like assistance identifying OERs for use in a particular course or research project are encouraged to contact the library.

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Lansing Community College (LCC) Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER) by Regina Gong is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Thanks also to librarian colleagues at Trinity College & Connecticut College, especially Ariela McCaffrey, for modeling OER advocacy.