Educational Technology/Open Educational Resources

Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes.

Pros

 * Open educational resources provide free courses, textbooks, modules, lessons, collections, etc. that are available for commercial and sometimes only non-commercial use.

Cons

 * Relevant content may be difficult to locate.
 * Quality varies depending on the source.
 * Content may or may not be peer reviewed.

Examples

 * MERLOT
 * Wikibooks
 * Wikimedia Commons
 * Wikiversity