Open Educational Resources (OERs) are educational materials that are licensed in ways that allow us to legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs include courses, textbooks, assignments, tests, projects, software, audio, video and animation.
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Open Educational Resources are teaching resources that are freely available under an open license and are typically reusable. The two are closely related and the key differences are the adaptation of resources allowed with OERs and the broader range of resources that are thought of as OERs.
Open Access refers to scholarly material that is freely available under an open license and usually found in Open Access journals and institutional repositories.
