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__**Welcome to the Open Educational Resources Wiki**__

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This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.

**Defining Open Educational Resources**
The term open educational resources first came into use at a conference hosted by UNESCO in 2002, defined as “the open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for noncommercial purposes” (Johnstone, 2005). The definition of OER now most often used is: “open educational resources are digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research”. To clarify further, OER is said to include: Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. (2007). //Giving Knowledge for Free:The emergence of open educational resources//. p.30 - 31. Retrieved from @http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/35/7/38654317.pdf.
 * **Learning content**: Full courses, courseware, content modules, learning objects, collections and journals.
 * **Tools**: Software to support the development, use, reuse and delivery of learning content, including searching and organisation of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and online learning communities.
 * **Implementation resources**: Intellectual property licences to promote open publishing of materials, design principles of best practice and localise content.
 * I am not sure about this reference. I have attached the link in case someone can help me out.* This is a direct quote from the manual.

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