%0 Journal Article %A Hardy, Suzanne %C Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry & Veterinary medicine, Newcastle University, UK., United Kingdom, Europe %D 2010 %G eng %J The Clinical Teacher %K health sciences %K medical education %K HEAL %K MedEdPORTAL %K PHORUS %K Bioscience OER %K healthcare %K OOER %P 138 - 140 %R 10.1111/j.1743-498X.2010.00376.x %T Open educational resources: freely available to support your teaching %V 7 %X Open educational resources (OER) is a term, coined around 2002, that describes electronic learning and teaching materials, which have clearly identifiable licensing arrangements, making it easier to know how you can use them in your own teaching. In this article we examine the roots of OER, explore some large collections and what they may offer to clinical teachers, and then focus on some collections specifically to support medicine and health care education. %8 06/2010 %@ 1743-498X