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Open Educational Resources at SUNY Erie: Overview

Learn how to find and use OER materials in teaching and learning.

What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

OERs

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."  

Image by Caroline Madigan / CC BY-SA

OER materials are released under an open license granting permission for every one to:

  • Retain -- users have the right to make, archive, and own copies of the content
  • Reuse -- content can be reused in its unaltered form
  • Revise -- content can be adapted, adjusted, modified, and altered
  • Remix -- original or revised content can be combined with other content to create something new
  • Redistribute -- copies of the content can be shared with others in its original, revised or remixed form.

OER include digital learning materials such as:

  • open textbooks
  • full courses
  • modules
  • syllabi
  • lectures
  • homework assignments
  • quizzes
  • lab activities
  • games
  • simulations

More OER Information

Ask a Librarian!

Need assistance finding, evaluating, adopting, or adapting OER materials? The library can help!

Please contact librarian Justin Cronise, OER/AIM liaison for SUNY Erie Libraries:

Librarian - Justin Cronise

Justin Cronise
College Librarian - Collection Development, User Experience, & OER
cronisej@ecc.edu
716-851-1775

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Creative Commons License
"Open Educational Resources at SUNY Erie" is a derivative of "Lansing Community College (LCC) Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER)" by Regina Gong used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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