Open Touro OER Project

Open Educational Resources (OER) are guided by the idea that high-quality educational materials should be available to everyone.

OER are any teaching, learning, or research materials, in any medium, that are cost-free and openly licensed.

• Free: available to everyone, at all times, at no cost
• Open: released by the author or creator under a license (usually Creative Commons) that makes their work available for others to use, share, and even edit, remix, and adapt for their own purposes. 

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. 

Read the full article here. 

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