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ACRL/EBSS Open Education Resources for Teacher Education

Created by the EBSS Education Committee, this guide is designed for Education Liaison Librarians looking for OERs relevant for teacher education programs.

Contents of This Guide

This guide is designed for Education Librarians looking for high quality, college-level, open educational resources to refer to faculty in teacher education programs.  
Table of Contents:

What Are OERs ?

"OER Defined:  Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests...used to support access to knowledge."

Larry Kramer, Hewlett Foundation
Open Educational Resources, 12/19/2016

Difference between open content, oer, and open textbooks

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Image from Sarah Cohen, Open Textbook Network, Slideshare 12/8/2016