UNESCO defines Open Educational Resources (OER) as 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.
OER and Open Access: Differences
Open Access | OER |
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related to research and scholarship |
related to teaching and learning |
content: scholarly articles, books, book chapters, dissertations. etc., |
content: textbooks, course modules, videos, other ancillary materials. |
typically not licensed for revision or remixing. | openly licensed for revision |