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Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are either a) in the public domain, or b) licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities: retaining, remixing, revising, reusing, and redistributing. (Creative Commons)
It is important to clarify that creators of OER retain copyright, as they would for any other original work. The key distinction is that creators apply an open license to the work that explicitly allows others to do things like revise and redistribute the content.
More information about open licenses is available in our guide to OER.
Drake OER
