The initiative offers more than ten thousand items of educational material. The material is freely available through a national research outlet. This initiative is meant to share knowledge among national educators. The initiative is ranked number one in the middle east offering more than ten thousand educational object.

The open educational resources movement has been receiving continuous attention all over the globe especially in the field of higher education. The movement has positive reflection on the educational process inside and outside of any educational institution. The core thought of education promotes the philosophy of openness in science and knowledge, King Abdulaziz University, represented by the Deanship of E-Learning and Distance Education invites all faculty members and students to participate in this movement and to take advantage of its outputs in sharing knowledge and information.

This website incorporates the philosophy and thought of “King Abdulaziz University Open Educational Resources” initiative, and provides several resources that represent this thought in easy implementable mechanisms and procedures for all colleges, faculty members, and students.

https://oer.kau.edu.sa/Default.aspx?Site_ID=214888&lng=EN

• Saudi Arabia

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• The unemployed
• The poor
• Migrants
• Refugees and internally displaced people
• Remote and rural communities

Organizations can start initiatives to share their teaching material.

The educational material this initiative shared is usable for as long as it is online.

The second UNESCO Open Educational Resources Conference in 2004 expanded the implications of these resources to include: 1. Educational resources: Such as curriculums, lesson plans, textbooks, scientific research, and much more resources that support teaching and learning; 2. Technology: Such as applications that assist in producing and using educational contents, along with "open technology" that contributes to improvements in learning and sharing of teaching practices; 3. Executive resources: resources produced or used to ensure the best quality of education and teaching practices, in addition to licensing educational resources. This initiative offers teaching material that people interested can access to use for educating and thus improving their communities. 2. The availability of knowledge through technology and communication; 3. Including students in sharing knowledge; 4. Continuous improvement of educational material; 5. Support e-learning.