Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:

Assertion A: Open Educational Resources (OERs) are available for free.

Reason R: The basic philosophy behind OERs is to provide freely accessible, openly licensed text and media to all, that are useful for teaching and learning.

In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research tools. 

Key PointsAssertion A: Open Educational Resources (OERs) are available for free.

• It has been purposefully produced and licenced so that anyone can use, copy, and, in most circumstances, change them.
• The word OER refers to materials and resources that are made available to the public.
• It may be used, remixed, improved, and redistributed by anybody with certain licences. 

Thus, A is correct. 

Reason R: The basic philosophy behind OERs is to provide freely accessible, openly licensed text and media to all, that are useful for teaching and learning.

• It is publicly accessible internet resources that can be used by anybody for instruction or study.
• OERs are accessible to and usable by anybody with internet access; access is neither location- or institution-specific. 
• OERs is to provide freely accessible, openly licensed text and media to all, that are useful for teaching and learning.

So, Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A