Using open educational resources
Open Educational Resources (OERs) can be used by others (shared, downloaded, modified), as long as any licence conditions are followed and the original creator is credited.
- Creative Commons section has information on the different licence types that can be applied to OERs and how this effects the use of the resource.
- Copyright section has an overview of copyright and how it applies to OERs.
Image credit: Original by WMF, character extracted by User:Yuriy Bulka, Sharing-Character, size, CC BY-SA 3.0
Tools with guidance on creating and using OERs
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Creative Commons Choose a license toolUse this tool to quickly work out the appropriate Creative Commons licence to assign to open educational resources you create.
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Open Author Tool from OER CommonsCreate Open Educational Resources using the OER Commons' authoring tools to help you build OERs, lesson plans, and courses.
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MERLOT Content Builder1. Go to Merlot
2. Sign up
3. Click on "Create a material" to create a website or page for your content. -
Contribute material to MERLOTOnline educational resources with their own URLs can be added to the MERLOT Collection by any MERLOT member.
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WikiEducatorDeveloping free content and provides guidance on creating OERs.