About this Guide
This guide will help you create an open educational resource (OER) for your assessment. OER are educational materials that are published under an open licence such as Creative Commons (CC), which permits use, access and even repurposing by others.
This model is different from how copyrighted materials are typically managed. OER are licensed to give users free and perpetual permission to engage in what are known as the 5R activities[1]:
- Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
- Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
- Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
- Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
- Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend).
As such, there are different copyright rules you will need to consider in order to ensure your OER is legally compliant. This guide will support you through this and is broken down into four chapters:
- Understanding Copyright
- Understanding Open Licences
- Finding Open Educational Resources
- Attributions and Academic Integrity
- Wiley, D. (2014). The access compromise and the 5th R. https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221 ↵ ↵
