“Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that provide users with (1) free and unfettered access and (2) 5R legal permissions to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute them, that can be used to replace traditional expensive learning resources (such as textbooks).” Open Education Group

U of L Campus Champions

In alignment with the Academic Plan (Section Teaching Development  2.2), the University of Lethbridge supports Open Education on our campus. This support can take many forms, including consultations and peer-hosted events that help you learn more about ways to approach OER  adoptions, adaptations and/ or creations of openly licensed academic materials or low-cost alternatives.

If you are looking for assistance, come talk to any one of the Uleth OER Champions, the Teaching Centre, the Library and the Bookstore.

OER Benefits

	Facilitate collaboration among content experts and students
	Ensure academic freedom to use, modify, retain and share content
	Enhance research and teaching visibility
	Provide more relevant and engaging materials to students
	Improve student retention by reducing costs
	Grant learners access to knowledge and quality education (SDG4) anytime
	Invite students to become content creators – meaningful assignments

Locate high-quality OER

If you are curious now what kind of materials there are openly available for your discipline, feel invited to browse the virtual corkboard below, which assembles most major OER repositories in one place instead of many. You can access the virtual noticeboard below by simply clicking on the pink links, which will direct you to the original websites. You might want to start your search by using either of the two Metafinder tools on the top left (OASIS and MASON) as they search a multitude of major global OER repositories simultaneously. Note that as Open Education movement is gaining momentum, the pool of available high-quality (often also peer-vetted) academic OER is considerate and growing.