OER Fact Sheet by lizo

Including David Wiley’s 5R Framework and Creative Common terminology

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost. Unlike fixed, copyrighted resources, OER have been authored or created by an individual or organization that chooses to retain few, if any, ownership rights. In some cases, that means you can download a resource and share it with colleagues and students. In other cases, you may be able to download a resource, edit it in some way, and then re-post it as a remixed work. How do you know your options? OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license to let you know how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared. (www.oercommons.org/about)

5R Framework

Retainthe right to make, own, and control copies of the content

Reusethe right to reuse the content as verbatim or in its unaltered form

Revisethe right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself

Remixthe right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new

Redistributethe right to make and share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others

Find OER

• OER (Open Education Resources) Commons https://www.oercommons.org/
• OPEN (Open Professionals Education Network) https://open4us.org/
• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) https://oerconsortium.org/

Creative Commons

Now what? Go forth, find resources, lessons, or modules that you may use without worry of breaking copyright.

This fact sheet was created by Anne Fensie at University College and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Then it was remixed, revised, reused, and redistributed by Stephanie Schab. And now this fact sheet was revised and remixed by Liz Otterness