
About OER
The term Open Educational Resources (OER) includes educational content which is shared freely and openly to be used by anyone to adapt/ repurpose/improve under an open copyright licence in order to redistribute and share again The emergence of open educational resources (OER) in higher education is part of the much larger social movement towards ‘opening up’…

Creative Commons
Introducing the Creative Commons License Why do we need open licenses? What has changed in the world which implies the need for something between “All rights reserved” and “Public domain”? Watch the video below to get acquainted with the open licensing philosophy. Creative Commons Basics Creative Commons is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the…

Contribute an open educational resource to this site!
Have an online resource or website which you find really useful in your teaching practice? Please submit the URL of the website and we will add it to the VIU Open Educational Resources directory.
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