{"id":12185,"date":"2025-06-24T23:45:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacificopencourses.col.org\/ds4oers\/?page_id=12185"},"modified":"2025-06-24T23:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:45:30","slug":"oer-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pacificopencourses.col.org\/ds4oers\/learning-challenges\/the-oer-development-process\/oer-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"OER &#8211; The basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"definition\" src=\"https:\/\/pacificopencourses.col.org\/ds4oers\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru-course\/idevices\/Icon_define.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Definition<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><i>Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching, and research materials in any format or medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation, and re-distribution by others.<\/i><sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"media\" src=\"https:\/\/pacificopencourses.col.org\/ds4oers\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru-course\/idevices\/Icon_multimedia.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>David Wiley - What constitutes an OER?<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Dr. <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/davidwiley.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(opens in a oew browser tab\/window)\">David Wiley<\/a> is Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, an organisation dedicated to increasing student access to and improving the affordability of education through the adoption of open educational resources (OER) by middle schools, high schools, community and state colleges, and universities. Previously, David was Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology in the David O. McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University. His career has been dedicated to increasing access to educational opportunities for everyone around the world.\n<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video David recorded for a workshop on &#8216;Open Content Licensing for Educators&#8217;. (You can download a copy of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\/File:Video_transcript_-_What_constitutes_and_OER.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(opens in a oew browser tab\/window)\">transcript<\/a> (26KB) if you don&#8217;t have enough bandwidth to view the video. You can also turn on the captions by clicking on the &#8220;CC&#8221; button.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"vimeo\" id=\"arve-vimeo-73124428\" style=\"max-width:640px;\" class=\"arve aligncenter\">\n\t<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n\t\t<div style=\"aspect-ratio:500\/333\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:66.600000%\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-vimeo-73124428\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/73124428?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963&amp;transparent=0&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;&amp;autoplay=0#t=0s\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"426.24\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/73124428?dnt=1&#038;app_id=122963&#038;transparent=0&#038;title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0&#038;&#038;autoplay=0#t=0s\" title=\"\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pacificopencourses.col.org\\\/ds4oers\\\/learning-challenges\\\/the-oer-development-process\\\/oer-the-basics\\\/#arve-vimeo-73124428\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/player.vimeo.com\\\/video\\\/73124428?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;&autoplay=0#t=0s\"}<\/script>\n\t\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\"><br \/>\nShare your thoughts, ideas or insights based on David&#8217;s summary of OER by posting a comment on WENotes below. (Alternatively, if you prefer to use our <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.oeru.org\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(opens in a oew browser tab\/window)\">Mastodon<\/a> social media site, please include the hashtag &#8220;#DS4OERS&#8221; in your response. For example:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>David thanks for &#8230;. <\/i>, or\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Wow! I didn&#8217;t realise OER &#8230; #DS4OERS<\/i>, or\n<\/li>\n<li><i>It would be better if OER  &#8230; #DS4OERS<\/i>, or\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Anything you want to share &#8230; #DS4OERS<\/i>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div><p>You must be logged in to post to WEnotes.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><i>Note: Your comment will be displayed in the <a href=\"\/ds4oers\/interactions\/course-feed\" title=\"DS4OERS\/Feed\">course feed<\/a>.<\/i><br style=\"clear:both;\">\n<\/p>\n<p><small>Biography text sourced from <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/davidwiley.org\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(opens in a oew browser tab\/window)\">http:\/\/davidwiley.org<\/a><br \/><\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"question\" src=\"https:\/\/pacificopencourses.col.org\/ds4oers\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru-course\/idevices\/Icon_qmark.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Quiz<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Take this short quiz to test your understanding of what an OER is:\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"h5p-iframe-1\" class=\"h5p-iframe h5p-initialized WEH5P\" data-content-id=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/h5p.oeru.org\/h5p\/128\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\" style=\" width:100%; height:400px; font-weight: bold;;\" frameboarder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"References\">References<\/span><\/h2>\n<ol class=\"references\">\n<li id=\"cite_note-1\"><span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\"><a href=\"#cite_ref-1\">\u2191<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"reference-text\">UNESCO. 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