Creative Commons licenses

Open material uses the Creative Commons licenses 'CC BY' or 'CC BY-SA'. These licenses give you free and perpetual permission to do the following 5R activities:

1. Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
2. Reuse - the right to use the content in different ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, in a video, on a website)
3. Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
4. Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
5. Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)

The 5R activities let you use Open Educational Resources on several levels:

• Discovering the Open Educational Resources of others may inspire you in creating your educational materials.
• The open license gives you the possibility to use other teachers' creations in your classes or courses.
• You can use just a part of the resource or revise it to create materials for your students. You might also want to mix several sources and create a new product.
• You might want to share your materials with others, thus redistributing them.

You may not revise or remix materials with a ‘CC BY-ND’ or ‘CC BY-NC’ license. These materials must be reused ‘as is’.

Source: This material is an adaptation of Defining the "Open" in Open Content and Open Educational Resources, which was originally written by David Wiley and published freely under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license at http://opencontent.org/definition/.

Attribution

All CC licenses require that you credit the material's creator and that you 'cite' the source used. This requirement is called attribution and is shown as ‘CC BY’ in your material .

When attributing the creator of CC licensed work you must provide the following information:

• Title - What is the name of the material?
• Author - Who owns the material?
• Source - Where can I find it?
• License - How can I use it?

The attribution should be reasonable and suited to the medium you're working with. Give the source's URL, the author’s website or channel, and the CC license when available. For examples, see the Best practices for attribution.

Attribution by Foter (CC-BY SA)