"Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions." (UNESCO)
When you Adapt an OER you are Revising, modifying, and/or improving the materials.
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)
OER, the 5Rs, and Creative Commons by David Wiley is licensed under CC BY 4.0
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?
