Open Educational Resources are free teaching materials that are licensed to allow for revision and reuse.
This guide includes basic information about Open Educational Resources (OER), highlighting platforms, collections, and repositories that host openly licensed educational materials to help you discover OER content.
Library experts can assist instructors with finding, evaluating, and using OER. We provide consultations with instructors on developing strategies to identify learning materials that support their teaching style and course learning outcomes, as well as navigating copyright and open licensing.
We also host OER Discovery workshops where instructors can learn more about the spectrum of openly licensed learning materials and begin exploring available OER in their field.
The UC Davis Library can help instructors:
- Find free, openly licensed course materials, including textbooks, streaming media, assessment tools, and dynamic content.
- Author openly licensed course materials and textbooks using Creative Commons licenses.
- Foster student engagement in creating openly licensed educational resources.
CONTACT
Email aggieopen@ucdavis.edu with questions about OER or to schedule a consultation related to using or creating openly licensed course materials.
Start exploring:
- Browse OER Collections
This is a curated list that contains platforms, collections, and repositories that host openly licensed educational materials to help you to discover OER content. - 7 Things You Should Know About Open Education
This publication is one in a three-part series from EDUCAUSE designed as a point of departure for conversations about all aspects of open education.
- OER Mythbusting
OER Mythbusting addresses the top seven myths about OER in North American higher education, as voted on by more than 100 faculty, librarians, students, and other members of the OER community. - The OER Starter Kit
This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education. - An Open Education Reader
This is a collection of readings on open education. It includes chapters on intellectual property, free software, open-source, open content, open textbooks, and research in open education.