OER & Copyright Laws
Resources for your classroom
What is OER?
“Open educational resources are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research and other purposes.” —Wikipedia
"Open Educational Resources (OER) are high-quality, openly licensed, online educational materials that offer an extraordinary opportunity for people everywhere to share, use, and reuse knowledge. They also demonstrate great potential as a mechanism for instructional innovation as networks of teachers and learners share best practices." —Hewlett Foundation
A significant purpose of OER is to allow educators to use unrestricted licensed resources to download to share with other teachers and students.
Great Teaching in Action
Teaching Channel is a video showcase -- online and on TV -- of inspired and effective teaching practices.
Open Educational Resources
OER Commons has a great library of resources with materials for educators from preschool to college. The search page allows users to search by grade level, subject, as well as for materials aligned to Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards.
KQED
What is Copyright?
According to the U.S. Copyright Office, copyright is "a form of protection grounded in the U.S. Constitution and granted by law for original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Copyright covers both published and unpublished works." Under the law, the individual or entity that owns the copyright of a work has the following rights:
- Reproduction: Making copies
- Adaptation: Changing a work in some way
- Distribution: Giving the work to others
- Public Performance: Playing/performing a work in front of others
- Public Display: Displaying a work for others to view
- Digital Transmission of Sound Recordings: Capturing audio files on the internet
and burning CDs/file sharing - AUBURN
Creative Commons
OER & Copyright for Teachers
OER & Copyright Laws by Jose Ramirez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.