LibGuides: OER: Open Educational Resources: Authoring OER

What is an open license and how does it work?

What is an open license and how does it work? The Council of Chief State School Officers

ABOUT CC LICENSES

Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)

Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)

Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)

Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)

Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)

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OER, the 5Rs, and Creative Commons by David Wiley is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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OER, the 5Rs, and Creative Commons by David Wiley is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Licenses and Attributions

Adopting OER Content

If you have found OER content that you want to use, verify the options allowed under the license. How can you use the content? Can you revise the OER as long as it isn't for commercial purposes? How do you create the attribution to give proper credit for the work?

Attributing Creative Common Materials A guide published by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (www.cci.edu.au) in partnership with Creative Commons Australia (http://creativecommons.org.au).

Best Practices for Attribution
You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution. Here are some good (and not so good) examples of attribution.
Best Practices for Citing Online Content and Avoiding Link Rot
Online content can change or vanish at any moment. The American Bar Association provides some best practices.
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Explore more than 833 billion web pages saved over time
Creative Commons Licenses
Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law. The six types of licenses are explained.
OER Licensing and Attributions
This webinar will provide an overview of the various Creative Commons licenses, how content with different licenses can be combined, and how to give proper attributions.
Open Washington Attribution Builder
This is a tool to help you build attributions.
Self-Paced Courses on OER Basics and Accessibility
The ASCCC OERI has developed two self-paced OER courses. At the end of OER Basics successful participants will be able to:
1) Properly identify the creative commons (CC) license on a resource and describe how this resource can and cannot be used.
2) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of open resources using current research in the field as evidence.
3) Research, analyze and review repositories of open resources.
4) Effectively search for open resources and post reviews in an OER repository.
5) Create an open resource by remixing multiple existing resources and designate a license to this new resource based on the licenses of multiple resources used.
Accessibility Basics provides an overview of accessibility not limited the context of OER.

Template for Tracking Source Licensing
A tool for keeping track of the sources you find while gathering materials for your OER work.

Curation and Licencing ASCCC
How do you remix and attribute content with different licenses? How are collections and remixes different and why does it matter? This interactive session is intended for those who are familiar with the Creative Commons licenses and would like to expand their understanding. Bring your questions and licensing challenges.

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OER: Open Educational Resources: Authoring OER

What is an open license and how does it work?

ABOUT CC LICENSES

5R

More or Less

Licenses and Attributions

Adopting OER Content

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