The OER Knowledge Cloud: Copyright And Open Educational Resources

Published	2010
Publisher	Commonwealth of Learning
Country	Canada

ABSTRACT

Contents

Section 1: Introduction to Copyright and Licensing
Section 2: What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?
Section 3: Key OER Projects from Around the World
Section 4: Key Licensing Resources

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are characterised by the fact that their copyright scope is limited by means of an open content license. The “all rights reserved” model of traditional copyright is replaced with a more generous “some rights reserved”. What does this mean exactly? In the schooling context, an open content license enables the recipient of an educational work to freely use, distribute (and in some cases modify) the material.

Keywords

COL · copyright · licences · OER definition · open licensing

Published at	Vancouver
Language	en
ISBN	9781894975384
Refereed	Does not apply
Rights	by-sa/4.0
URL	http://hdl.handle.net/11599/41
Export options	BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar

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