Open Educational Resources (OER) include digital and print course content, open textbooks, teaching materials, learning modules, and more. Often, they are made available through copyright friendly means such as the public domain or a Creative Common licence.
Students and instructors can freely access, use, share, and modify OER. David Wiley’s 5R Framework describes the ways OER can be used to support teaching and learning.
OER are growing in importance as the cost of textbooks and learning materials continues to rise. OER make it easier for instructors to create, customize, and share learning materials and for students to access, use, and modify course content. Both students and instructors can benefit when cost is no longer a barrier to accessible learning materials.
Saskatchewan Polytechnic Library celebrates Open Education Week, and now you can find recordings to all the on-campus sessions held over the years by visiting Open Education Week page.
Discover
OER can be found in a number of places. Many institutions using Pressbooks have OER directories. Start discovering OER at Sask Polytechnic.
Evaluate
Many instructors and course developers are surprised by the wealth of material available to them.
Adopt-Adapt-Create
Pressbooks at Saskatchewan Polytechnic provides an editing/publishing space for employees to work with existing openly licensed resources or create and publish new material.
