Welcome to the Open Educational Resources (OER) page!
This guide is designed to both introduce you to Open Educational Resources and provide you with resources to convert your course over to OER based learning materials.
The RCBC Library will be hosting OER workshops for faculty and we look forward to partnering with you. If you have any questions at all concerning OERs, please reach out to us!
By Christopher Dombres CC BY 4.0
An interpretation of the above picture: Corporate Capitalism is watching the battle of its hero, Achilles, as Copyright (think textbook publishers), is about to kill the Public Domain (works that are not copyrighted or are out of copyright) but the arrow, Free Culture (think Creative Commons), takes down Corporate Capitalism's hero, Copyright. -Rachel Pieters
"Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions," UNESCO
There are 6 types of Creative Commons Licenses:
Attribution CC BY - This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit the original creator. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials. Creative Commons Licenses
Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA - This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the original creator and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects. Creative Commons Licenses
Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND - This license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to the original creator. Creative Commons Licenses
Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC - This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the original work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge the original creator and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. Creative Commons Licenses
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA - This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the original work non-commercially, as long as they credit the original creator and license their new creations under the identical terms. Creative Commons Licenses
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND - This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing others to download the original works and share them with others as long as they credit the original creator, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially. Creative Commons Licenses
Research assistance - help finding sources, evaluating sources
Online workshops for citing and plagiarism are held throughout the semester. To request a citing workshop, please email library@rcbc.edu
