Sharing your own educational material for re-use
Why, where and how to share your own teaching material.
Why would you share?
There are many reasons to share the work you've created.
If you share your work, others don’t have to start from scratch but can build upon your work, and vice versa. When sharing your material, you increase your reach as a teacher, you make yourself more visible and you meet other teachers. And, finally, others may give you valuable feedback that may improve your course.
Where to share: SURF sharekit and edusources
Wageningen University and Research is transitioning from the Library for Learning to SURF sharekit and edusources as the standard platforms for finding and sharing WUR Open Educational Resources. By uploading your materials to SURF sharekit, you can share them publicly, with a specific group or consortium, or only with WUR colleagues. The materials will then be made available on edusources, where either everyone or designated users can find and download them for reuse.
It is also possible to share your materials on other platforms. You can use Youtube, Slideshare or Flickr to share videos, images and presentations. Or you can upload your material to an institutional website, like TU Delft OpenCourseWare and MIT OpenCourseWare. You can also use Open Educational Resources platforms such as Wikiwijs and MERLOT II to upload and store your teaching material so that is can be freely used by others.
How to share: license your work!
When you want to share teaching material like images, videos, infographics, assignments or assessments, we recommend you license your work with a Creative Commons licences. In this way your work is not only freely available, but others also know what they may do with the material.
As stated in the Open Educational Resources Policy, the default licence for sharing WUR materials is CC BY-NC. This licence gives permission to reuse, modify and adapt your work, except for commercial purposes.
Clear any copyright issues!
When you release your work either with a CC licence or in the public
domain, you have to ensure your work is free of copyright. Therefore, create your work with original material combined with open content material, that is material with a CC licence or from the public domain, and/or work with material that you have permission to reuse.