OER FACT SHEET for ABE/GED Instructors

What are the benefits of using and creating OER for students in adult education?

Creating and using OER may improve student motivation/retention because the materials can be tailored to their current needs and interests. It can also increases student use of online tools.

What are the benefits of using and creating OER for teachers in adult education?

OER helps educators by augmenting instruction, strengthening their content knowledge, and providing access to free online professional development. This can encourage educators to collaborate and share; save costs; and serve as a model for learning.

 The 5Rs*
Another way to think about OER is
Through the Five R Framework,
developed by David Wiley. It supports
a deeper understanding of what it 
means to consider an object (i.e. resource)
an OER

1. Retain-the right to make, own,
and control copies of the content

2. Reuse- the right to reuse the content
as verbatim in its unaltered form

3. Revise- the right to adapt, adjust,
modify, or alter the content itself

4. Remix- the right to combine the
original or revised content with
other content to create something new

5. Redistribute- the right to make
and share copies of the original
content, your revisions, or your
remix with others

*This material is based on original
writing by David Wiley, which was
 published freely under
Creative Commons Attribution license
 at: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221

This means that you can download and share resources and you can edit and remix resources before using or sharing the resource. To determine how the resource can be used, reused, remixed, and shared you can view the permissions granted through the Commons license. Examples of some licenses are as follows¹:

Attribution  CC BY

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, if they credit you for the original creation.

Attribution-ShareAlike  CC BY-SA

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes if they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NoDerivs  CC BY-ND

This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial if it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

Attribution-NonCommercial  CC BY-NC

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

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially if they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs  CC BY-NC-ND

This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others if they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

Public Domain Mark - "No Known Copyright"

Our Public Domain Mark enables works that are no longer restricted by copyright to be marked as such in a standard and simple way, making them easily discoverable and available to others.

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Adapted from http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses