Open Educational Resources

What can you do?

1. Retain: Make, own, and control copies of the content
2. Reuse: Use the content in a variety of ways
3. Revise: Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the content
4. Remix: Combine the original or revised content with other OER to create something new
5. Redistribute: Share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others

(Made available with the 5R permissions, which define the ways open content can be used)

Three ways to use OER: 

1. Adopt existing resources without making changes
2. Adapt existing resources by adding, removing, combining, or editing content
3. Author new resources