abstract:Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, usually openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes. Although some people consider the use of an open format to be an essential characteristic of OER, this is not a universally acknowledged requirement.
Textbookpublishers connectprofessors, instructorsandstudentsinways that alternatives, such asopene-textbooks and open educationalresources, simplydo not.
OpenEducationalResources are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain and released with an open license (such as Creative Commons).
Openeducationalresources are any type of educational materials in the public domain or released under an open-content license that allows for free use, re-use and sharing.
OpenEducationalResources typically go beyond the textbook to incorporate interactive project-based learning methodologies that allow individualized, interactive engagement with subject matter content and personalized assessment of progress.