Final remarks

Sharing your content using Creative Commons licences is generous, but that alone isn’t enough to make it easy for others to reuse and adapt your work. Spend some time thinking from the perspective of someone who finds your shared content. How easy is it for them to download, reuse and/or revise it? Are there legal or technical obstacles that make it difficult for them to do the things that the CC licence is designed to allow?

Openness in education means more than just access or legal certainty over what you are can use, modify and share with your students. Open education means designing content and practices that ensure everyone can actively participate and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge. As educators and students revise others’ OER and create and share new OER, accessibility should always be on your design checklist.