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This guide was adapted from the Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER) by NMC Librarians and the Cornell University Open Educational Resources by Cornell University Librarians.
"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.” -William Hewlett Foundation
Faculty around the world are joining the OER movement to save students money, take control over course materials, and improve learning.
💰 Cost savings for students, instructor, and institution.
👩🏫 Easily scalable across multiple classrooms with only a few or hundreds of students
🛜 Students have access to their texts wherever they have access to the internet
🏫 OERs can be adapted and ever-evolving works tailored for the unique needs of the students, the class, and the institution
📚 Student work can be integrated as part of the process of adapting open textbooks, which means students can be (at least indirectly) involved in improving the text for the next cohort of students.