{"id":5,"date":"2017-05-10T14:09:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/chapter\/chapter-1\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T17:49:58","slug":"chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/chapter\/chapter-1\/","title":{"raw":"Brief Introduction to OERs","rendered":"Brief Introduction to OERs"},"content":{"raw":"At the heart of the open movement lie two central ideas:\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Publicly-funded knowledge and knowledge products should be made freely available to the public.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Coordinated peer production is a powerful way to create quality products for education.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nOpen Educational Resources (OERs) are typically developed by publically-funded educators, who contribute their creations into the public domain using an <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/chapter\/quick-start-know-the-jargon-terms-definitions\/\" title=\"see Terms &amp; Definitions\">open license<\/a>. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.\r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/back-matter\/appendix\/\" title=\"see Resources and References list in Appendix\">research shows<\/a> that OERs not only reduce student debt, they also (when used appropriately in a course) improve student learning.","rendered":"<p>At the heart of the open movement lie two central ideas:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Publicly-funded knowledge and knowledge products should be made freely available to the public.<\/li>\n<li>Coordinated peer production is a powerful way to create quality products for education.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Open Educational Resources (OERs) are typically developed by publically-funded educators, who contribute their creations into the public domain using an <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/chapter\/quick-start-know-the-jargon-terms-definitions\/\" title=\"see Terms &amp; Definitions\">open license<\/a>. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/back-matter\/appendix\/\" title=\"see Resources and References list in Appendix\">research shows<\/a> that OERs not only reduce student debt, they also (when used appropriately in a course) improve student learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[47],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-5","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-standard"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5\/revisions\/147"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oertoolkitfortrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}