A very quick guide to OERs and a few links to relevant and useful sites

1. Open Educational Resources
(or ‘Why Reinventing the Wheel Sucks’)
Sucks’)

2. “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 re-purposing by
others. Open educational resources
include full courses, course materials,
modules, textbooks, streaming videos,
tests, software, and any other tools,
materials, or techniques used to support
access to knowledge".
The Hewlett Foundation
What?

3. What?
Teaching resources made by other practitioners
made available for others to use

4. How?
• Uploaded to the Internet
• Range of online sites that allow you to create, share resources
• All of this is free!

5. Why? • To save time
• Because many
resources can be
repurposed
• To stop reinventing
the wheel!

7. HCARE-Specific
• Learning Technology Showcase on Learning Central
• Links to all School eLearning resources