What is OER?

OER stands for Open Educational Resources. Our collections house lessons, classes, simulations, games, rubrics, icebreakers, and many other educational tools, free for teachers to use in their classrooms. OER describes teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits repurposing by others. OER using Creative Commons copyright licenses (CC) promotes the use, sharing, revision and adaptation of OER content. OER encourages the "Five R's" of shared use, allowing educators to retain, reuse, revise, remix and redistribute Open Educational Resources. OERColorado supports access, collaboration, and training to promote the creation and use of OER teaching and learning resources in preK-12+ classrooms throughout Colorado. These resources can be created and shared by institutional providers or locally by an individual teacher, a district or even You!

Our Mission and Directive

The mission of OERColorado is to support Colorado educators, administrators, and other educational stakeholders in PK-12+ in using Open Educational Resources (OER) materials, share ideas, and create collaborative spaces and high quality learning resources at no cost to educators.

OERColorado is a Colorado Empowered Learning (CEL) initiative administered by the Colorado River Board of Cooperative Educational Services (CR BOCES) that provides digital collections of openly licensed resources for PK-12+ educators. Pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute (C.R.S. § 22-5-119), the CR BOCES was designated to administer the statewide supplemental and blended learning program and ensure public access to a digital repository of content and resources for Colorado educators.