Open Educational Resources: Creation and Licensing

The OER Research Toolkit is comprised of the OER Research Guidebook and several additional resources.

This tutorial was created for USG faculty and staff interested in creating open educational resources, but it will be useful to any educators looking to create open content.

This tutorial was created for USG faculty and staff interested in creating open educational resources, but it will be useful to any educators looking to create open content.

This tutorial was created by the Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) for language instructors wishing to create their own OER, but it will be useful to any educators looking to create open content.

This in-progress guide provides "information on the why, what, and how" of making changes to (i.e. revising and remixing) an existing open educational resource.

This guide walks instructors through the process of designing open educational resources, from assessing which devices students will use to access the resource, to understanding copyright, to pulling together content for the course.

This brief tutorial demonstrates with step-by-step screenshots how to share open educational resources in Canvas Commons.

A brief explainer of Creative Commons licenses from the Delgado Library.

A standardized way to grant copyright permissions to one's creative work.

This guide was created by CUNY library faculty to support users in making independent, informed decisions about copyright compliance.

This tutorial was created for USG faculty to aid in identifying open resources and applying Creative Commons licenses.

This FAQ from Creative Commons explains how the different licenses interact in remixed content and includes an infographic to explain the license relationships.