This Guide will cover:
Here are a few links to guide the process of finding and creating an open educational resource (OER):
If material is not an OER, you may consider requesting copyright permission. See Copyright box and Copyright and Fair Use Guide.
These are the possible activities, depending on the open license, that users are given permission to engage in with open content:
| 5Rs | 5R Permissions |
|---|---|
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Retain |
Make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage) |
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Reuse |
Use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video) |
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Revise |
Adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content (e.g., translate the content into another language) |
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Remix |
Combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup) |
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Redistribute |
Share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend) |
This material is based on original writing by David Wiley, which was published freely under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license at http://opencontent.org/definition/.
Texas Education Code Sec. 51.451 defines open educational resource:
(4-a) “Open educational resource” means a teaching, learning, or research resource that is in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual property license that permits the free use, adaptation, and redistribution of the resource by any person. The term may include full course curricula, course materials, modules, textbooks, media, assessments, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques, whether digital or otherwise, used to support access to knowledge.
