Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.
(UNESCO, 2017)
OERs are beneficial to students and educators because they facilitate
Why use OERs?
Many thanks to the University of Queensland Library, for permission to use and adapt sections of their OER libguide.
https://guides.library.uq.edu.au/how-to-find/open-educational-resources/evaluate