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Open Educational Resources (OER) at CU Anschutz

The 5 R's

In addition to being free, for something to be considered OER it must fulfill each of these "5 R's":

  • Reuse
  • Remix
  • Revise
  • Retain
  • Redistribute

 

Elements of free resources vs open resources.

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Ellie Svoboda
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Subjects: Nursing

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What are Open Educational Resources?

“Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials 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.”

-William + Flora Hewlett Foundation

Ranking CC license from most to least free.

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