{"id":4829,"date":"2025-09-02T14:22:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:36:42","slug":"open-educational-resources-creative-commons-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/2025\/09\/02\/open-educational-resources-creative-commons-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Educational Resources &amp; Creative Commons License"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The term&nbsp;<strong>Open Educational Resources (OER)&nbsp;includes educational content&nbsp;<\/strong>which is<strong>&nbsp;shared freely and openly&nbsp;<\/strong>to be<strong>&nbsp;used by anyone to adapt\/ repurpose\/improve&nbsp;<\/strong>under an<strong>&nbsp;open copyright licence<\/strong>&nbsp;in order<strong>&nbsp;to redistribute and share again<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emergence of open educational resources (OER) in higher education is part of the much larger social movement towards \u2018opening up\u2019 what was previously \u2018closed\u2019 to all except a limited number of people who paid for access to use information and services. There is a growing pool of high quality resources freely available for use on the internet.&nbsp; Below find a number of links to help get you started in your search for OER!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/43401199\">Why Open Education Matters<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/blinktower\">Blink Tower<\/a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/mpaskevi\/open-education-week-degrees-of-open-practice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open Education Week: Degrees of Open Practice&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong>from&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/mpaskevi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Paskevicius<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Understanding the OER movement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>World Bank InfoDev Briefing sheet: Quick guide: Open educational resources\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infodev.org\/en\/Publication.337.html\">http:\/\/www.infodev.org\/en\/Publication.337.html<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open Educational Resources \u2013 Opportunities and Challenges for HE\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learn.creativecommons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/oer_briefing_paper.pdf\">http:\/\/learn.creativecommons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/oer_briefing_paper.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OECD OER Handbook\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikieducator.org\/OER_Handbook\">http:\/\/www.wikieducator.org\/OER_Handbook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introducing the Creative Commons License<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do we need open licenses? What has changed in the world which implies the need for something between \u201cAll rights reserved\u201d and \u201cPublic domain\u201d?<br>Watch the video below to get acquainted with the open licensing philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"toc2\">Creative Commons Basics<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Creative Commons is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creative Commons has been described as being at the forefront of the \u2018copyleft\u2019 movement, which seeks to support the building of a richer public domain by providing an alternative to the automatic \u201call rights reserved\u201d copyright, dubbed \u201csome rights reserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/CC001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"976\" height=\"363\"><br>Adapted from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creative_Commons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creative_Commons<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mixing and matching these conditions produces six regularly used and valid licenses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/CC002.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"toc3\">Understanding License Differences<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of degrees of sharing and openness Creative Commons gives us a space to operate between all rights reserved and the public domain. The image below demonstrates how the licenses an be combined to create unique licenses which range from least restrictive to most restrictive. Note that as you apply more restrictive clauses the material becomes more difficult for others to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also note that certain media formats are easier to adapt, such as wiki and xml formats which are easily edited (built upon) and translated between applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/openeducationalresources\/files\/2013\/08\/CreativeCommons_Spacebetween.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/CC003.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"toc4\">The Licensing Process<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Licensing your work is as simple as visiting the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/choose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creative Commons website<\/a>, selecting the conditions of the license discussed above, and choosing the jurisdiction of the license. Additional information can be added optionally.Once you submit you can gather your Creative Commons License code for online work (e.g. Webpages) or copy the code for local documents which reside on your computer (e.g. Word documents, presentations).&nbsp;To do the latter you need to go one step further and gather the plain text and button manually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term&nbsp;Open Educational Resources (OER)&nbsp;includes educational content&nbsp;which is&nbsp;shared freely and openly&nbsp;to be&nbsp;used by anyone to adapt\/ repurpose\/improve&nbsp;under an&nbsp;open copyright licence&nbsp;in order&nbsp;to redistribute and share again The emergence of open educational resources (OER) in higher education is part of the much&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/2025\/09\/02\/open-educational-resources-creative-commons-license\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":4830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copyright","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci337\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}