Educational Technology/Open Educational Resources
< Educational TechnologyOpen educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes.[1]
Pros
- Open educational resources provide free courses, textbooks, modules, lessons, collections, etc. that are available for commercial and sometimes only non-commercial use.
Cons
- Relevant content may be difficult to locate.
- Quality varies depending on the source.
- Content may or may not be peer reviewed.
Examples
- MERLOT
- Wikibooks
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wikiversity
See Also
References
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