According to OER Commons, "Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others."
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Open Access is not the same as OER. Open Access is a term that refers to literature that has few or no copyright restrictions and is available freely online. Open Access is similar to OER, but differs in one important aspect: it does not allow for users to make edits, remixes, or adaptations of the material, which is exactly what you can do with OER.
FREE OPEN TEXTBOOKS & OTHER OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES GAIN POPULARITY
In a new Physics Today article, OpenStax founder Richard Baraniuk and others in the education field weigh in on the growth of open educational resources. Baraniuk estimates that the nonprofit’s books have helped save students nearly $2 billion.
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