Open Educational Resources & Creative Commons

Open Educational Resources may be found across nearly all subject areas, but understanding methods of integrating these resources into instructional activities remains a best practice. For this quest, create an entry in your blog in which you develop a definition of open educational resources and explain the various Creative Commons licenses one may encounter when searching for these resources.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are any tools, information that are available for FREE to add to knowledge of the world.  They can be as simple as websites and as complex as online classes that you may access anywhere at anytime.  

Creative Commons offers four conditions for using and sharing ideas:
A)  Attribution

Anyone can use this file/resource, but they have to give credit to the designer/maker of the resource.

B)  Noncommercial simply means you cannot use the item to make money!  And, you must give credit to the owner of the resource.

C)  No Derivative Works is to use the resource in its original capacity; you cannot change anything!

D)  Public Domain; this option is when you give up all rights to the product, so people can use it how they see fit.

One final note:

Combination of Conditions allows people to select multiple requirements of the Creative Commons' OER!