A Venn Diagram

A Venn Diagram

Just to make sure you're tracking properly, here's a Venn diagram demonstrating the relationship between open content, opencourseware, open educational resources, and open textbooks.

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Important points:

  • Not all open content is necessarily educational.
  • When OER used to support classroom teaching are aggregated and structured as a course, we call those aggregations OCW.
  • When OER are aggregated and structured like a textbook, we call those aggregations open textbooks.