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The OER Starter Kit Workbook includes worksheets attached to each chapter to help instructors practice the skills they need to confidently find, use, or create open educational resources (OER).

This document is intended to support authors, teachers, professors, librarians, and all open educators in evaluating when and how they can incorporate third party copyright materials into Open Educational Resources to meet their pedagogical goals.

This one page introductory guide differentiates OER and OA materials on the basis of purpose (teaching vs. research), method of access (analog and digital), and in terms of the relative freedoms offered by different levels of Creative Commons licenses, the most common open license.

A playlist that acts as a mini-course on open education resources (OER). It covers reasons behind Open education, some examples of OER projects and some research associated with OER. - By Martin Weller

This video is a brief explanation of Open Educational Resources. (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license by Rajiv Jhangiani.)

Texas Learn OER includes information on understanding OER; open licensing, including Creative Commons; finding and evaluating OER; accessibility; adapting, creating, and sharing OER; and OER policy and practice in Texas.

This FAQ provides answers to commonly asked questions about creative commons and the open license.

Use this generator to build a custom license based on your sharing preferences.

Fact Sheet provided by the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

What, How, Who, Why, Where, and so on.

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