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. It maximizes the power of the Internet to make education more affordable, accessible and effective (SPARC).
OERs are teaching, learning, and research resources that are in the public domain or are released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others (Hewlett Foundation).
These materials are freely available to users anywhere and include:
JIBC supports a wide range of open educational practices, including the creation, adaptation, and adoption of open textbooks, open educational resources (OER) as part of our Zero Textbook Cost initiative (ZTC) and other forms of open pedagogy.
Learn more at Open at JIBC.
For more open textbooks and courses created at JIBC, visit the Post-Secondary Directory: Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC).
The permissions that define an open resource.
Retain
The right to make, own, and control copies of the content
Reuse
The right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g. in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
Revise
The right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
Remix
The right to combine the original or revise content with other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mash-up)
Redistribute
The right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others
This material was created by David Wiley and published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY) at: opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221. Adapted for JIBC's use from Langara College.
Dave Smulders: dsmulders@jibc.ca
Krista Lambert: klambert@jibc.ca
Melanie Meyers: mmeyers@jibc.ca
Unless otherwise noted, this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
The information on this page was adapted from Langara College's Open Education Guide, which is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA).