Open Educational Resources

What are Open Educational Resources?

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

"OER defined" by The Hewlett Foundation is licensed under a CC BY 3.0 license.

Pitt State CC Guide

Below is a brochure produced by Rion Huffman, Assistant Professor, Graphics & Imaging and Marisa Windisch, PSU Graphics & Imaging student, discussing the use of Creative Commons (CC) in the classroom. The CC Brochure for Pitt State.