Library Guides: Open educational resources (OER): Share, modify or create resources

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.

Character sharing papers — 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

Creative Commons Choose a license tool
Use this tool to quickly work out the appropriate Creative Commons licence to assign to open educational resources you create.
Open Author Tool from OER Commons
Create Open Educational Resources using the OER Commons' authoring tools to help you build OERs, lesson plans, and courses.
MERLOT Content Builder
1. Go to Merlot
2. Sign up
3. Click on "Create a material" to create a website or page for your content.
WikiEducator
Provides guidance on creating OERs.