Lakewood Campus (2nd Floor East)
Arvada Campus, Learning Commons
Phone: 303.914.6740
Email: library@rrcc.edu
UNESCO defines Open Educational Resources (OER) as, "teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions." The term "open" in OER generally refers to resources with free permission to engage in the 5R activities: retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute.
Improves course grades and decrease DFW rates at greater rates for students who receive Pell grants, part-time students and populations historically underserved by higher education
adapted from “The Impact of Open Educational Resource on Various Success Metrics" , Concordia University Libraries
The Creative Commons (CC) organization developed licenses and public domain tools to give creators a free, simple, and standardized way to grant copyright permissions for creative and academic works. CC also:
OER Mythbusting by SPARC addresses the top seven myths about OER in North American higher education, as voted on by more than 100 faculty, librarians, students and other members of the OER community.
The Red Rocks Community College Library Services Open Educational Resources (OER) Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License; icons used in 5Rs graphic from Icons8, graphic licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license