cannot award degrees nor provide academic or administrative support
integrated into open and distance education
courses, course materials, content modules, learning objects, collections, and journals
software
intellectual property licenses
materials on best practices
OER 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 or 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.