What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
In a time when food pantries are being utilized to help college students with food insecurities, OER have been increasingly used in colleges and universities to help reduce or eliminate textbook costs to students. But what exactly are OER? According to OERCommons.org, “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments,…