Open Education Resources (OER)
UNESCO is to dedicated Open Education Resources (OER) program. The term “Open Education Resource” was first coined in 2002 by UNESCO on Open Courseware in Higher Education. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials that can be found 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. OERs a type of open access material, and open access materials such as OA journal articles, OA textbooks, and other scholarly materials may support OER lesson plans. OER Commons is such a Platform supported in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education from a single point of access. OER Commons enables users to search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons' growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER. Some of them are: Full un...