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Open Educational Resources

The University Library supports the (re)use of open educational materials in education. Open educational materials are educational materials that are available free of charge for (re)use under certain conditions. The University Library encourages the use of open educational materials and supports teachers in creating, saving, structuring and sharing their own educational materials so that they can be reused by colleagues.

What are open educational materials?
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is affiliated with the international academic Open Science movement. This movement encourages the use and creation of open educational materials. Open educational resources are learning materials that are made openly available in digital form for educational purposes. These resources come in many forms, varying from knowledge clips to open textbooks, and from open access articles and open assignments to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). 

The use of open educational materials has many advantages. Open educational materials:  

  • can increase a student's study success 
  • can be deployed flexibly 
  • can support active blended learning 
  • are timesaving
  • are cost-free

By sharing open educational materials, every student has access to the educational knowledge that is shared in the academic world.

As with other (digital) educational materials, you must always cite your source with open educational materials. 

Digital educational resources

Every study programme has to deal with digital learning resources. But what are they exactly? Where are the copyrights, and how do lecturers and students gain access? That and more can be heard in the new animation of the zone Towards digital (open) educational resources.

Bron: Acceleration Plan Educational Innovation with ICT

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