Business OER & Fair Use

Lumen Learning's OER course includes modules to help faculty members adopt and use OERs in their classrooms. Each module includes readings, videos, and activities. The six modules are: "Why Open?," "Introduction to Open Licensing," "Investigating OER on the Web," "Open Textbook/Open Courses," "Remix OER," and "Create and Share."

Hosted by Canvas, this self-paced online course is targeted at educators and faculty and covers the following topics: how to identify OERs, review of the six Creative Commons licenses, how to write attributions, incorporating OERs into the curriculum/course work; creating new OERs, and getting permission to use closed content in an open resource.

This is an openly licensed OER textbook published by Iowa State University Press. The book is divided into five sections, including "Getting Started," "Copyright," "Finding OER," "Teaching with OER," and "Creating OER."

A six-week course hosted by OpenEdMOOC addresses the significance of open education; copyright, public domain, and the idea of a commons for learning materials; the 5Rs of OERs; Creative Commons and open licensing; finding, using, and creating OERs; OER impact and effectiveness; and the future direction of open education. The course includes links to relevant videos and published articles and reports.

Skills Commons is a free online open library that provides links to open learning materials. Some of the materials link to sites that explain how to locate OERs and how to use OERs.

This SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Open Education Leadership program extends over two semesters and provides instruction on how to create and adopt OERs. The module also covers basic principles of OERs as well as information on copyright, open licensing, and publishing. In addition, the module provides practical experience planning and accessing OERs.

This self-paced course provides 10 modules on how to use OERs. Module topics include the meaning of open educational resources and the concepts of copyright, open licensing, and public domain. In addition, the course distinguishes between the different types of Creative Commons licenses and provides a module on accessibility.