Section 67423 of California Education Code defines Open Educational Resources (OER) as:
"high-quality teaching, learning, and research resources that:
Reside in the public domain or
Have been released under an intellectual property license, such as a Creative Commons license, that permits their free use and repurposing by others, and
May include other resources that are legally available and free of cost to students.
Open educational resources include, but are not limited to, full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, faculty-created content, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge."
SPARC Open Education Fact Sheet
The Open Ed Group lists several studies that have been conducted about the positive impact OER has on students, including studies that show decreased dropout/withdrawal/fail rates.
