Create 3 – Open Educational Resources

Research: Spend time perusing the vast amount of open educational resources and examining the different usage rights regarding creative commons items.

Create: In your blog post, create a definition of open educational resources.

Answer: What are the various Creative Commons licenses one may encounter when searching for these resources?

An open educational resource is one that exists in public domain and has either been released under a open license or is a creative work that has entered the public domain.

The various licenses are shown in the graphic above and will be explained from top to bottom:

1. You can distribute, remix, tweak, and build the work, even commercially, as long as you give the author credit.
2. You can remix, tweak, and build upon the work even for commercial purposes, as long as you give the author credit and license the new creations under the identical terms.
3. You can reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially, you must credit the author and the adapted for cannot be shared.
4. You can remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, and although the new works must also acknowledge the author and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
5. You can remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as you give credit to the author and license the new creations under the identical terms.
6. You are only allowed to download works and share them with others as long as you credit the author, but you can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.