This FAQ has been designed to address common questions that CCCS LOR users may have regarding the production of materials as well as support services provided by the OPEN Partners. (Source OPEN website on 6/20/16)
Open Educational Resources (OER)
OER
What is OER?
OER stands for Open Educational Resources, which are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. All CC BY licensed educational resources are OER since CC BY allows sharing and remix.
What are some examples of OER?
Many OERs can be found and downloaded from repositories on the web, ranging from MIT’s OpenCourseWare to Khan Academy‘s catalog of videos, to OpenStax College collection of open textbooks. See below for more information on how to find OER.
How do I find additional OER?
For help finding OER, take a look at the Find OER page of this site, which includes links to repositories and libraries of OER and other open content in many media types (images, videos, etc).
Which file formats help make sharing and remixing OER easier?
To enable others to easily access and work with all content, users should make their content available in a file format that allows anyone to natively and directly edit the content. Users may choose to make content available in multiple formats, but at least one of these formats must be openly editable. For more information about open file format standards written by the OPEN Partners, please see the tech standards section of the “What is Open?” page.
Should our materials be in a final version before being made available?
Users are encouraged to share draft and pre-final versions of content, through self-hosting or by depositing them in a publicly-accessible repository. Though no policy mandates sharing of content before final deposit, sharing content can help avoid duplicate efforts by other CCCS instructors and employees.