What is Open Education?
Open education is a pedagogy-driven movement and philosophy which reduces barriers to learning, enables learner agency, values transparency, gives credit to others for their contributions, and utilizes Public Domain markers or open licenses for the creation, use, and sharing of open educational resources.
What are Open Educational Resources (OER's)?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are 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. (UNESCO)
Open educational resources include collections like:-
To know more about Open Educational Resources visit https://www.oercommons.org/
What is an open license?
An open license or free license (licence in Commonwealth English) is the legal statement that allows free content and free software to be "free". This means "free" as in "freedom of speech" or "free to use it how you want". See the Freedom Defined wiki for more information.
The exact meaning may vary, but a common idea of an open license is one that requires attribution but otherwise lets people use the content in any way, including commercially, only requiring them to share their modifications under the same license (copyleft/ShareAlike). This corresponds to CC-BY-SA or GFDL. (wiki. creative commons.org)
Get more information on different types of open licenses from the https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/
The Open Textbook Library is a collection of over 700 freely available electronic textbooks licensed under one of six Creative Commons licenses. Some books include faculty peer reviews. All can be read online and are downloadable for offline reading.
OER Commons indexes a wide variety of openly licensed educational materials. Licenses vary by item.
Search instructions: (Under "material type" select "textbook" or for a curated collection go to: https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/open-textbooks )
Search for open access and openly licensed textbooks. From Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo.
Zero cost open textbook access and remix system with content in biology, business, chemistry, geosciences, humanities, math, physics, Spanish, statistics, and workforce development. Features: embedded media, dynamic figures, Jupyter integration, Hypothes.is annotation, print on demand, LMS imports, and forthcoming WeBWork integration.
A directory of publicly-available books in Pressbooks. Licenses vary.
Open Textbook Library - Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted across disciplines