To help build bridges among schools of thought surrounding various aspects of open pedagogy, it can help to conceptualize "open education" broadly and align work adaptively to the definition of open educational resources provided by UNESCO in its 2019 recommendation on OER:
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Open Education "encompasses resources, tools and practices that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers and can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment. Open Education maximizes the power of the Internet to make education more affordable, accessible and effective." —SPARC
Electronic Library Resources are resources that are accessible electronically at no additional cost to the library's user group, through a license agreement. —American Library Association
Low-Cost Resources are materials that require “$40 or under" in material costs for students. —Affordable Learning Georgia
Open Educational Resources (OER) "are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and[or] redistribution by others.” —UNESCO
Open Textbooks “are like any other textbook, except that a dedicated team of authors, instructional designers, and/or organizations have made them available for free and have given users the power to adapt them for their students and pedagogy.” —Affordable Learning Georgia
Copyright is "a type of intellectual property that protects original works of authorship as soon as an author fixes the work in a tangible form of expression." —US Copyright Office
Public Domain (PD) is a legal status given to "creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws." —Stanford Copyright & Fair Use
Open Licensing is licensing that "respects the intellectual property rights of the copyright owner and provides permissions granting the public the rights to access, re-use, re-purpose, adapt and redistribute educational materials.” —UNESCO
Creative Commons (CC) is a nonprofit organization that has developed a set of legal tools to help creators openly license their work in a variety of ways. Learn more about CC here.
Inclusive Access is a new term used to describe "a textbook sales model that adds the cost of digital course content into students’ tuition and fees." —InclusiveAccess.org
No-Cost Access includes Open Access (OA), which is "the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment." —SPARC
OER-Enabled Pedagogy is "the set of teaching and learning practices that are only possible or practical in the context of the 5R permissions," which are the permissions to: retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. —Wiley, D. & Hilton, J., 2018
University System of Georgia institutions are required to assign the appropriate attribute to sections of courses where required course materials exclusively consist of:
"Materials" are digital and print textbooks, other text-based materials, workbooks, lab manuals, online homework platforms, and access codes or other publisher-provided curricular materials for students.
Excluded from the no-cost and low-cost caps are:
To assign a no-cost or low-cost attribute to a course section, use the following codes in Banner:
