What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials that are in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.
(UNESCO https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer)
OER Initiative at AUB?
The Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative was initiated by the AUB libraries, after having had Open Educational Resources on its agenda for a while.
During this year, 2021, we formed a team of 5 members, including two faculty members, one of whom is representing the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), an instructional designer, as well as two librarians to participate in the one-year-long institute on OER by the Association for American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).
The institute is an opportunity for AUB to design a campus transformation strategy to accelerate campus OER plans for large scale engagement and adoption. All interested AUB community members are welcome to join our team, ask questions and/or share suggestions.
Our tentative plan can be found
here.