Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Term explanation

Definition and meaning

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely available for anyone to use, adapt, and redistribute. OER include textbooks, course materials, videos, lesson plans, and assessments released under open licenses such as Creative Commons. The OER movement aims to reduce barriers to quality education by making materials accessible regardless of geography or financial means. Organizations and universities worldwide contribute to and maintain large repositories of OER.

SlideLizard CREATOR gives organizations a central library for managing and distributing OER-based slide content — ensuring every team accesses the latest, approved materials without version confusion.

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Other glossary terms

B2C Events

B2C events (business-to-consumer events) are organized experiences designed to engage end consumers directly — such as product launches, brand activations, pop-up experiences, festivals, or public demonstrations. Unlike B2B events, B2C events prioritize emotional connection, entertainment, and brand perception over formal knowledge exchange. They are used to build brand awareness, drive purchase consideration, and create memorable experiences that consumers associate with a product or brand.

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Distributed Audience

A distributed audience is a group of presentation attendees who are physically located in different places — such as different offices, cities, or countries — and who attend the presentation remotely or from multiple simultaneous locations. Managing a distributed audience requires careful attention to technical setup, timing across time zones, and engagement tools that compensate for the lack of physical presence. Distributed audiences are common in global organizations, virtual events, and multi-site corporate communications.

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Generative AI

Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that create new content — such as text, images, code, or structured data — in response to a prompt or task, rather than simply analyzing or classifying existing information. Powered by large language models and other foundation models, generative AI can write documents, summarize reports, produce slide content, and translate data into natural language. In enterprise settings, it is the core technology behind modern AI assistants, document automation tools, and presentation generators. A presentation-specific evolution of generative AI is the Large Presentation Model (LPM), which combines generative capabilities with enterprise context, brand guidelines, and the full presentation cycle.

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Co-located Audience

Co-located Audience means that the speaker talks to the audience in person. It is used verbal and non-verbal methods to communicate a message. The speaker makes gestures with their hands, changes their face expression and shows images.

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