Open Educational Resources (OER) by Olga Perkovic and Denise Smith is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What are OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning objects or materials that can be used for teaching, learning, assessing, or researching, and that are openly available to (re)use.
Learning objects or educational materials that are freely accessible and available to anyone, does not necessarily classify them as OER. OER must be licensed in such a way as to allow reuse or redistribution of the material. This is often done using a Creative Commons license or other open license.
OER Collection for McMaster instructors
- OER by Discipline Guide: McMaster UniversityThis Guide includes quality open textbooks organized by academic programs at McMaster University. We hope that faculty and instructors will find this guide helpful as they consider the options available for quality, open textbooks for their courses.
This material is based on original writing by David Wiley, which was published freely under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license at http://opencontent.org/definition/
Contact Us
If you have a question about use of OER in your teaching and learning please reach out to oer@mcmaster.ca.