Unit 4: OER and using CC-licensed work

Introduction

Which licence? [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ’ was produced by Visual Thinkery for TIDE project, part of the UK-Aid-funded SPHEIR programme (spheir.org.uk), and is licensed CC BY 2.0

Now that you know how the licences work and how they are designed, let’s look at why you might want to use openly licensed material. Where can you find CC-licensed material? How can you evaluate and reference it properly?

This unit has four sections:

  • 4.1 Open educational resources (OER)
  • 4.2 Why use OER?
  • 4.3 Finding and evaluating OER
  • 4.4 Attributing OER

There are also additional resources if you are interested in learning more about any of the topics covered in this unit.

4.1 Open educational resources