Read the article ‘Open textbook community advocates CC BY licence for open textbooks‘ and think about why they recommend the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) for education. You can find similar text with more arguments made about this same licence for publishing scientific research in ‘Why CC-BY?‘ from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
For an introduction on why it is important to share work as OER, watch the videos ‘Open education matters: why is it important to share content?’ and ‘Why OER?’. You can also watch the video ‘What is a MOOC?’ by Dave Cormier (CC-BY 3.0).
To see further examples of open courseware, visit the Open Education Consortium and Lumen Learning.
And be careful not to let anyone tell you OER are ‘low quality’ because they are free. As the SPARC OER Mythbusting Guide points out:
Also, be careful not to get pulled into a debate about ‘high- or low-quality education resources’; what educators should really be concerned about is ‘effectiveness’. Read these two posts from David Wiley: ‘Stop saying “high quality”’ and ‘No, really – stop saying “high quality”’.