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Kinds of OER

What are the different kinds of OER?

Any educational resource can be considered an OER if it is published with a Creative Commons license or is in the public domain. Here are some examples of the most common kinds of OER:

Open Textbooks

 

 

    

 

    

Open Software and Digital Tools

 

  

    

 

Collections of Open Images

 

 

Literature in the Public Domain

Open Courses

Open Data Sets

Websites as OER