Open Education
About Open Educational Resources (OER)
OER are educational materials that are free to use and adapt under an open licence or in the public domain. They can be textbooks, images, videos, games, lesson plans, worksheets and assessments.
OER have many benefits for students and academics, such as:
- saving costs for learners who can access the content online for free
- improving learning outcomes for students who have timely and quality materials
- exploring the potential of technology to enhance teaching and learning
- advancing society’s goals through increased access to education.
Deakin Library supports open educational practice by:
- enabling open educational practitioners through capability-building and resourcing
- working with faculties and academics to identify and create open educational resources (OER)
- supporting academics with grants to transition to OER.
Open Education Support
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Understand OER licences, adopting, adapting and evaluating OER and how to create your own.
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Browse our curated lists of existing OER that may be suitable for your course or unit.
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Discover research from Open Educational Resources.
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Find OERs through the Council of Australian University Librarian’s (CAUL) OER Collective shared open textbook publishing platform.
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Browse existing and past grant recipients, and find out how to apply for a grant.
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Designed for academic and professional staff developing OERs, this guide details the expected organisational style, accessibility standards and copyright processes for Deakin-developed OERs.
Related content
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Open access is a publishing movement aimed at making research freely available online.
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Find public domain or openly licensed resources you can use for free.