For Teachers
Interested in educational resources which you can freely customize according to your needs? Open educational resources are licensed for free use and adaptation by anyone, so you can mix them up, translate them, and even share your creations for other teachers and learners to use.
Using OER
Pedagogies
How do I use OER in the classroom? In the digital age, traditional teaching methods and roles are evolving. Students have access to a vast amount of information outside of the traditional classroom setting, but this doesn’t mean that students know how to organize and interpret this information in a meaningful way. It has become increasingly important for teachers to develop a new pedagogical relationship with information technologies in order to keep up with their students' needs. More »
Questions and Considerations
When creating and using OER, numerous questions and concerns may arise. More »
What can I do with OER?
Since OER are licensed differently, it is important to know which license allows you to do what. To learn how to interpret the CC license on an open educational resource, visit the CC Licensing Portal for Educators.
Finding OER
Methods for finding OER that you can use on the web. More »
Finding Colleagues
Find colleagues in your area of interest, whether it's a particular subject area (science, math, english, history), project (open textbook initiatives, open access journals), or institution. Search our Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations (ODEPO) or find other networks. More »
Producing OER
OER and CC Licensing
Whether you want it or not, you automatically get all-rights-reserved copyright protection for just about anything you publish. When you place your works on the Internet, those copyright protections remain in place unless you take action to make them open. Read more »
Licensing Your Work
Are you looking to openly license your work so that others may access, build upon, and remix it with other educational materials? If so, visit the CC Licensing Portal for Educators for information about the different Creative Commons licenses.
Where to Publish
The best way to publish your OER is to upload it to an existing repository that has built-in Creative Commons licensing. Read more »