Open+Educational+Resources

=What are OER?=

The following definition of OER has been proposed by the [|William and Flora Hewlett Foundation]: > ==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.[|[][|6][|]]==

=MERLOT (www.merlot.org)=

==**MERLOT** is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, __[|collection]__ of __[|peer reviewed]__ higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.==