Open Educational Resources (OER)

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About the Licenses

Learn more about the different Creative Commons licenses and how they affect using and sharing open resources and materials.

Choose a License Tool

This simple tool helps you choose a Creative Commons license based on your license feature preferences.

The 5 R's of Open

Understanding what you can do with a resource that is truly open.

STCC Library Copyright Guide

A website outlining the basics of copyright and fair use. Includes various resources to help you determine if and how you may use a copyrighted work in the classroom.

In addition to Creative Commons licensed works, works in the public domain can be legally distributed, and thus may be helpful in building an OER-based course.

Public domain is a complicated legal concept. The Cornell Library has an excellent guide to Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States