Open Educational Resources, or OER, are materials such as full textbooks, course content, videos, images, and more created specifically to be available for free use by students and instructors. To be fully open OER, users should be able to access the materials without a paywall or any other subscription, free or otherwise, and must meet the 5Rs:
The 5R Permissions of OER, Lumen Learning, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License from OERTX.
Most OER use Creative Commons licensing. Creative Commons licensing was specifically developed to allow creators to easily share their works and provide a simple mechanism to explain what use the creator does and does not allow. You will need to determine what the license is giving you permission to do before you use the work.
Creative Commons Licenses by JoKalliauer under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
If you want to create a CC licensed works, or apply a CC license to something you have already created, consider the different licenses listed above and think about how you would want to license your work. You can also use a CC license builder to help you and to provide the image and license text you can add to your work.
Unless otherwise noted, this OER libguide is available for reuse as CC BY.
