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Preface About OER

Open Educational Resources (OER) are instructional, learning and research materials, digital or non, that are open-source and in the public domain or that are licensed so that users have free and perpetual permission to engage in the following activities:
  • Retain: the right to make, own, and control copies of the content
  • Reuse: the right to use the content in a wide range of ways
  • Revise: the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
  • Remix: the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new
  • Redistribute: the right to share copies of the original content, revisions, and remixes with others