Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources can be freely used in education.
You can use Open Education Resources as a source of inspiration and adjust them to your needs or incorporate into your course as they are.
Open Educational Resources are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or that come with an open license (Creative Commons license such as CC BY and CC BY-SA) and are also known as Open Digital Teaching Materials. Anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share these open teaching materials (See also this definition by UNESCO).
In other words, any teacher is legally allowed to use (parts) of the Open Educational Resources in his/her own course or use them as an inspiration.
How you can use, find, reuse and share open material can be found in the information and tips on the pages below!
Using open material
Open (teaching) materials are mostly shared under a Creative Commons (CC) license.
Finding open content
Tips to find open teaching materials such as images, videos, textbooks, articles, and courses.
Citing open material
Attribution is important when you use Creative Commons (CC) licensed materials.
Sharing your own educational material for re-use
Why, where and how to share your own teaching material.