Copyright, Creative Commons, & Fair Use

OER are materials used for teaching, learning, and research that are released under an open license or are in the public domain. They permit free access, reuse, adaptation, and redistribution or, phrased another way, they allow the 5R activities: retain, reuse, review, remix, redistribute. They are licensed with any license that allows derivative works: CCO, Public Domain Mark, CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA

Examples:

• Open textbooks (OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, etc.)
• Course modules, videos, simulations
• Entire curricula/degree program

Open Education Resources / Open Textbook Examples

• FOAMed
  Free Open Access Meducation (medical education). 
• OAPEN OA Books Toolkit
  Designed to help authors better understand OA for books and to provide guidance on the publishing process
• OASIS
  Search tool designed by SUNY-Geneso to make discovery of open content easier
• The OER Starter Kit
  By Abbie Elder. Provides instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER)
• Open-i
  National Library of Medicine's Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine

While open access and open educational resources are very similar. There are differences important to understand, especially with licensing. See the chart below for more detailed information.

-  Both aim to remove barriers to knowledge.

-  OA focuses on scholarly publications

-  OER focuses on educational materials.

-  All OER are OA, but not all OA materials are OER (see image)

-  OA may lack permissions for adaptation

-  Shared Principles: Accessibility, equity, and collaboration.

Differentiating Between Open Access and Open Educational Resources is © Anita Walz. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94422