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.

In accordance with Article 19.2 of the MRFA Collective Agreement, instructors own the copyright and retain the moral rights to the products of their scholarship and teaching works, which includes OERs. In order for a copyright-protected work to be open, the copyright holder(s) in the work must agree to make the work open, typically under an open license such as a Creative Commons license. For collaborative works, all the contributors should be in agreement regarding how the work is to be made available, and this agreement should be in writing. 

There are a number of resources available on the Library’s Open Educational Resources page, including information on the OER Grant Program to support instructors in the creation of OERs.