LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Copyright

What is "Open" licensing?

A resource may be free of cost, but not necessarily OER. Sometimes a publisher will make a learning object available for free use, sometimes for a limited time or under certain conditions, but will not allow users to download or change the work. True OER allows for the 5 Rs.

Retain: Download and own copies

Reuse: Use the content in a variety of ways

Revise: Adapt and modify the content

Remix: Combine the content with other OER to create new resources

Redistribute: Share copies with students and others

Image from Open Licensing and Open Education Licensing Policy by Cable Green, https://doi.org/10.5334/bbc.c, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

License Types

Creative Commons Licenses

Attribution CC BY	Others can distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you.
Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA	Others can remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY--NC	Others can remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA	Others can remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND	Others can reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to you. (Would not be considered OER.)
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND	Others may download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially. (Would not be considered OER.)