OER
Open Educational Resources: teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
OECD
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Open Works
Open license, access, and format
Open Courseware
OCW
5Rs
Free to retain
Free to reuse
Free to revise
Free to remix
Free to redistribute
Free to reuse
Free to revise
Free to remix
Free to redistribute
Retain
the right to make, own, and control copies of content
Reuse
The right to use the content in a wide range of ways
Revise
The right to adapt, modify, or alter the content itself.
Remix
the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new
Redistribute
the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others
Attribution
CC BY ( retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute) The most open.
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials. BY=Credit to author.
CC BY ( retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute) The most open.
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials. BY=Credit to author.
Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA (SA=Share alike license with identical terms.) retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute but Share alike.
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to "copyleft" free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.
CC BY-SA (SA=Share alike license with identical terms.) retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute but Share alike.
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to "copyleft" free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.
Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-ND (ND=No derivatives/No changes) ( retain, reuse, redistribute)
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
CC BY-ND (ND=No derivatives/No changes) ( retain, reuse, redistribute)
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC (NC=Non-Commercial) (retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute)
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don't have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
CC BY-NC (NC=Non-Commercial) (retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute)
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don't have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA (retain, reuse, remix - NC-SA)
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
CC BY-NC-SA (retain, reuse, remix - NC-SA)
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND (retain, redistribute - NC)
This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can't change them in any way.
or use them commercially.
Most restrictive
CC BY-NC-ND (retain, redistribute - NC)
This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can't change them in any way.
or use them commercially.
Most restrictive