Open Educational Resources (OER) by Rebecca Kasperavicius is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and was adapted from Emily Carlisle-Johnston's slide deck.
For instructors, there are also benefits to using Open Educational Resources in the classroom. Not only do they level opportunities for success across students, but they allow teachers to take control of their teaching. For example, most Creative Commons licenses allow for their content to be adapted, so you can delete chapters from a text that aren’t relevant to your course, which isn’t an option with traditional textbooks. Some Creative Commons licenses allow you to change wording and examples in a resource to make the content more relevant and meaningful to your course content, perhaps by offering local or more current examples. What's more, because Open Educational Resources are not limited to textbooks, but include other forms of media (like videos or online quizzes), they make it possible to accommodate several learning styles. Really, the opportunities are endless, because Open Educational Resources take advantage of digital tools available today.