Finding, Reusing, Revising and Remixing Open Educational Resources

This lesson walks you through techniques to incorporate Open Educational Resources (OER) into your teaching practice. The course will cover the fundamental aspects of OER including open licensing and public domain. It focuses on providing practical guidance in locating and applying openly available resources. It also provides strategies for how to revise and reuse OER. It is expected that upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Describe the meaning of open educational resources.
• Differentiate the concepts of open licensing, public domain, and all rights reserved copyrights.
• Identify resources that are openly licensed or in the public domain.
• Learn strategies to revise and reuse OER.
• Discover how other users revise and reuse OER materials in a variety of ways to create “derivative works”.
• Distinguish the different types of Creative Commons licenses.
• License works using a Creative Commons license.
• Find open educational resources and properly attribute a work offered under a Creative Commons license.​​​​​​

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