Open Educational Resources

E566

educational resource learning material open content

Open Educational Resources are freely accessible, openly licensed teaching and learning materials that can be used, adapted, and shared by educators and learners worldwide.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
OER	2
Open Educational Resources canonical	1
open education movement	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10477 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Open Educational Resources
Context triple: [OpenCourseWare movement, relatedTo, Open Educational Resources]

A. OpenCourseWare movement
The OpenCourseWare movement is a global initiative in which universities and educators freely share course materials and educational resources online to promote open access to knowledge.
B. MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free, web-based publication of virtually all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course content, offering open access to lecture notes, exams, and other educational materials to learners worldwide.
C. Creative Commons license
A Creative Commons license is a standardized public copyright license that allows creators to grant the public permission to share, use, and sometimes modify their work under specified conditions.
D. Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
Advanced Technological Education (ATE) is a National Science Foundation program that supports the education and training of technicians in advanced technology fields through partnerships between two-year colleges, industry, and other educational institutions.
E. Wholly New Forms of Encyclopedias
"Wholly New Forms of Encyclopedias" is a section of Vannevar Bush’s essay "As We May Think" that envisions future, highly interconnected and dynamically organized knowledge systems beyond traditional printed encyclopedias.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Open Educational Resources
Target entity description: Open Educational Resources are freely accessible, openly licensed teaching and learning materials that can be used, adapted, and shared by educators and learners worldwide.

A. OpenCourseWare movement
The OpenCourseWare movement is a global initiative in which universities and educators freely share course materials and educational resources online to promote open access to knowledge.
B. MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free, web-based publication of virtually all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course content, offering open access to lecture notes, exams, and other educational materials to learners worldwide.
C. Creative Commons license
A Creative Commons license is a standardized public copyright license that allows creators to grant the public permission to share, use, and sometimes modify their work under specified conditions.
D. Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
Advanced Technological Education (ATE) is a National Science Foundation program that supports the education and training of technicians in advanced technology fields through partnerships between two-year colleges, industry, and other educational institutions.
E. Wholly New Forms of Encyclopedias
"Wholly New Forms of Encyclopedias" is a section of Vannevar Bush’s essay "As We May Think" that envisions future, highly interconnected and dynamically organized knowledge systems beyond traditional printed encyclopedias.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	educational resource ⓘ learning material ⓘ open content ⓘ
canBeAdaptedBy	educators ⓘ learners ⓘ
commonlyUsesLicense	Creative Commons license ⓘ surface form: Creative Commons Attribution Creative Commons license ⓘ surface form: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Creative Commons license ⓘ surface form: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license ⓘ surface form: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons license ⓘ surface form: Creative Commons Zero
hasAbbreviation	Open Educational Resources self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: OER
hasBenefit	abilityToContextualizeContent ⓘ abilityToTranslate ⓘ legalPermissionToModify ⓘ noCostToAccess ⓘ supportForCollaborativeCreation ⓘ
hasChallenge	awarenessAndAdoption ⓘ licensingLiteracy ⓘ qualityAssurance ⓘ sustainabilityOfCreation ⓘ technicalAccessibility ⓘ
hasDefinition	freely accessible, openly licensed teaching and learning materials that can be used, adapted, and shared ⓘ
hasDistributionChannel	institutional platforms ⓘ online repositories ⓘ open courseware sites ⓘ
hasGoal	enableLocalizationOfContent ⓘ improveAccessToEducation ⓘ promoteEducationalEquity ⓘ reduceEducationalCosts ⓘ supportLifelongLearning ⓘ
hasKeyFeature	freeAccess ⓘ openLicense ⓘ permissionToRedistribute ⓘ permissionToRemix ⓘ permissionToRetain ⓘ permissionToReuse ⓘ permissionToRevise ⓘ
includesType	assignments ⓘ course modules ⓘ learning objects ⓘ lecture notes ⓘ multimedia ⓘ open courses ⓘ open textbooks ⓘ syllabi ⓘ tests ⓘ
isAssociatedWithConcept	5Rs of openness ⓘ
isEnabledBy	openLicenses ⓘ publicDomainStatus ⓘ
isEncouragedBy	UNESCO 2019 OER Recommendation ⓘ
isPromotedBy	Commonwealth of Learning ⓘ Hewlett Foundation ⓘ UNESCO ⓘ
isRelatedTo	open access ⓘ open education ⓘ open licensing ⓘ open pedagogy ⓘ
isUsedBy	educators ⓘ self-directed learners ⓘ students ⓘ
isUsedIn	higher education ⓘ informal learning ⓘ primary education ⓘ secondary education ⓘ vocational education ⓘ
supportsActivity	learning ⓘ research ⓘ teaching ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

OpenCourseWare movement → relatedTo → Open Educational Resources ⓘ

Open Educational Resources → hasAbbreviation → Open Educational Resources self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: OER

Hal Abelson → movement → Open Educational Resources ⓘ

this entity surface form: open education movement

2012 Paris OER Declaration → hasKeyword → Open Educational Resources ⓘ