Create 3.1.1

Open Educational Resources (OER) are openly licensed material that are free to use by the public. Teachers may use these in the classroom for teaching, learning, and research purposes.  Creative Commons copyright licenses sets standards on sharing creative work.  Here are the different types of licenses:

• Attribution – CC BY – This license allows others to use and edit the work as long as the copyright holder receives credit for the original work.
• Attribution – CC BY SA – ShareAlike – This license allows others to use and edit the work commercially and non-commercially as long the copyright holder receives credit for the original work and the new creation carries the same lisence.
• Attribution – CC BY-ND – NoDerivs – This license allows redistribution of the original work commercially and non-commercially as long as the copyright holder receives credit for the original work and the work is unchanged.
• Attribution – CC BY-NC – NonCommercial – This license allows others to use and edit the original work non-commercially as long as the copyright holder receives credit for the original work.  However, the new work does not have to carry the same license.
• Attribution – CC BY-NC-SA – NonCommercial ShareAlike – This license allows others to use and edit the work as long as the copyright holder receives credit for the original work and the new creation carries the same lisence.
• Attribution – CC BY-NC-ND – NonCommercial-NoDerivs – This license allows others to download and share the original work as long as the copyright holder receives credit for the original work.  However, the work can not be changed or used commercially.

*This post is the collaboration work between Alice Johnson, Heather McCormick and Cameron Wood.