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The Open Dental Education Consortium was established to create and freely share the best educational materials available to train our dentists, hygienists, dental therapists, expanded function dental auxiliaries, and dental assistants of tomorrow. By sharing our content freely with the world, we hope to nurture an ethic of openness and human-centered learning in dental education and oral health by reducing learner costs, improving educational access, creating more flexible learning opportunities, and providing the most up-to-date and useful information for all learners.
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Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials that are provided in a manner that allows them to be freely revised, remixed, reused, redistributed, and retained (Wiley, n.d.). OER provide a vision for education and a mechanism for sharing that encourages generosity and fosters ongoing improvement (Kimmons, 2021; Kimmons & Irvine, 2023; Wiley et al., 2020), thereby leading our educational systems to become higher-quality and more accessible to all.
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Kimmons, R. (2021). A/B testing on open textbooks: A feasibility study for continuously improving open educational resources. The Journal of Applied Instructional Design, 10(2).
Kimmons, R., & Irvine, J. (2023). Future Directions in OER. In D. Otto, M. Kerres, & O. Zawacki-Richter (Eds.), Distributed learning ecosystems: Repositories, resources and practices. Springer Nature.
Wiley, D., Strader, R., & Bodily, R. (2020). Continuous improvement of instructional materials. In J. K. McDonald & R. E. West (Eds.), Design for learning: Principles, processes, and praxis. EdTech Books. https://edtechbooks.org/id/continuous_improvement