Attribute our work under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.
Example of how to attribute this guide:
"Open Educational Resources (OER)" by University of Queensland Library is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are licensed in ways that allow us to legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.
OERs include courses, textbooks, assignments, tests, projects, software, audio, video and animation.
Source: UNESCO and Open Education Resource Foundation
The terms "open content" and "open educational resources" describe any copyrightable work that is either in the public domain or licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities:
Adapted from Defining the "Open" in Open Content and Open Educational Resources, by David Wiley and published freely under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
OERs provide access to all kinds of resources for the educational benefit of people from all backgrounds in our global community.
OERs allow:
If you create an OER, you can retain ownership of your work but still allow others to use, share, and remix it. You can assign a Creative Commons (CC) licence so that users must attribute you for your work.
Organisations that provide guidance on OERs include: