Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under a license that permits free use and re-purposing by others. Recently, interest in OERs has grown tremendously due to rising textbook costs and institutional missions to save students money, as well as a greater desire to share educational resources widely. Digital Commons provides a platform to build, share, and preserve a wide variety of OERs including textbooks, syllabi, instructional videos, tools, databases, and more. To explore open educational resources currently published in Digital Commons, visit the Teaching Commons.
OER examples from across the DC community.
Research and presentations related to the benefits of including OERs in your repository.
