Open educational resources (OERs)

There are freely available online platforms and repositories where you can find open educational resources (OERs) to use in your curriculum, in your reading lists, or to adapt, rework and create new OERs.  

There are some things to consider if you want to use OERs in your teaching.

Evaluate resources 

Assess the relevance and quality of the OERs you find against your course objectives. If they are not an exact match, can you amend them to better suit the learning objectives.

Understand licensing

Review the specific licence for each OER to make sure you understand how you can use, re-use or adapt it. Read about Creative Commons Licences to understand what each one allows.

Customise content

If permitted by the open licence, you may modify the OER to better fit your curriculum and address student needs.

Email us at openeducation@leeds.ac.uk if you wish to explore using the Pressbooks authoring tool to adapt an existing OER. 

Provide access

Give other learners around the world easy, ongoing access to the materials by applying an open licence to your OERs. You can highlight OERs by adding them to your reading lists in Minerva.