Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.
OER form part of ‘Open Solutions’, alongside Free and Open Source software (FOSS), Open Access (OA), Open Data (OD) and crowd sourcing platforms.
Source: https://en.unesco.org/
OERs are subject to Creative Commons Licensing.
Attribution (BY): Allow to copy, adapt, modify, share the work as long as the original creators are credited for any purposes.
Attribution (BY) - Share Alike (SA): All rights as Attribution (BY) license and new creations have to be licensed under same terms as the original work.
Attribution (BY) - No Derives (ND): Allow to copy, share but keep the work unchanged and in whole for any purposes.
Attribution (BY) - Non-commercial (NC): Allow to copy, adapt, modify, share the work for non-commercial purposes only.
Attribution (BY) - Non-commercial (NC) - Share Alike (SA): All rights as Attribution (BY)-Share Alike (SA) license but for non-commercial purposes only.
Attribution (BY) - Non-commercial (NC) - No Derives (ND): All rights as Attribution (BY) - No Derives (ND) license but for non-commercial purposes only.
Attribution: Text a derivative of Creative Commons License web page.
Source: https://creativecommons.org/
Attribution: [Georgia State University] (n.d) Quick Guide to Open Educational Resources (OERs) infographic (CC_BY_NC license).
