The document discusses licensing open educational resources (OER) and other materials for teachers and curriculum administrators. It provides guidance on choosing an appropriate Creative Commons license for works, including the types of licenses and what they allow. It emphasizes the importance of modeling best practices for using and attributing OER, having clear expectations and guidance, and following up to ensure proper understanding and implementation of licensing.

1. Licensing OER and other Materials
for Teachers and Curriculum Administrators/Specialists
Image: Danilela Hartmann
Jason Neffer, M.Sci., ABD
Montana Digital Academy
the University of Montana
@techsavvyteach
http://www.techsavvyteacher.com

2. Paperless Handouts:
http://www.workshophandouts.com/licensingoer

3. My vantage point…

4. Image: Tagxedo

5. Image: Frog Miller/Available via CC BY

6. Image: Frog Miller available by CC BY

7. “best practices”
“doesn’t constitute not legal advice”
“may or may not”
“legal obligation”
“we cannot tell you if that is commercial or
not”

8. The problem…

19. “Why would bother with all of this Creative
Commons nonsense; even images marked
with the license are clearly not...”

22. “Listen… I understand what you are trying
to accomplish here but I am 100% sure that
nobody is going to come after me for using
any materials I want in a classroom.”

23. So what?

26. Broad Philosophy

27. Modeling
Expecta0ons
Guidance
Follow-­‐up

28. Licensing Your Own Materials

29. Modeling
Expecta0ons
Guidance
Follow-­‐up

30. h8p://jasonlinks.net/oerpolicy

34. Who
owns
the
materials?
The
teacher?
The
district?
Do
you
want
materials
to
be
remixed
and
adapted?
Do
you
want
to
allow
end
users
to
profit
off
the
use
of
the
materials?
Do
you
want
to
restrict
their
future
licensing
in
the
future?

36. Creative Commons makes sharing easy
The internet makes it easy for people to
share and build on each other’s creations. But
sometimes the law makes it hard.
Six licenses
for sharing
your work
Whenever you snap a photograph, record a
song, publish an article, or put your original
writing online, that work is automatically
considered “all rights reserved” in the eyes of
copyright law.
In many cases, that means that other people
can’t reuse or remix your work without asking
for your permission first.
But what if you want others to reuse your work?
If you want to give people the right to share, use, and even
build upon a work you’ve created, consider publishing under
a Creative Commons license.
Our free, easy-to-use licenses provide a simple, standardized
way to give the public permission to share and use your creative
work — on conditions of your choosing. CC licenses let you
easily change your copyright terms from “all rights reserved” to
“some rights reserved.”
Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright.
By default, copyright allows only limited reuses without your
permission. CC licenses let you grant additional permissions
to the public, allowing reuse on the terms best suited to your
needs while reserving some rights for yourself.
We’ve collaborated with copyright experts around the world to
ensure that our licenses work globally.
If you are looking for content that you can freely and legally
use, there is a wealth of CC-licensed creativity available to you.
There are hundreds of millions of works—from songs and videos
to scientific and academic material—available to the public for
free and legal use under the terms of our licenses, with more
being contributed every day.
A CC license lets you decide which rights you’d like to keep,
and it clearly conveys to those using your work how they’re
permitted to use it without asking you in advance.
What Is Creative Commons?
Step 1: Choose License Features
Step 2: Get a License
Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization
dedicated to supporting an open and accessible internet
that is enriched with free knowledge and creative resources
for people around the world to use, share, and cultivate.
Publishing under a Creative Commons license is easy. First, choose the
conditions that you want to apply to your work.
Based on your choices, you will get a license that clearly indicates how
other people may use your creative work.
Our easy-to-use licenses provide a simple, standardized way
to give the public permission to share and use your creative
work — on conditions of your choice. CC licenses let you
change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights
reserved” to “some rights reserved.”
Millions of people use CC licenses on some of the world’s
most popular platforms for user-generated content. When
you use a CC license to share your photos, videos, or blog,
your creation joins a globally accessible pool of resources
that includes the work of artists, educators, scientists, and
governments.
Creative Commons has waived all copyright and
related or neighboring rights to this guide using the
CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
Attribution
Attribution
All CC licenses require that others who use your work in any way
must give you credit the way you request, but not in a way that
suggests you endorse them or their use. If they want to use your
work without giving you credit or for endorsement purposes,
they must get your permission first.
CC BY
ShareAlike
You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your
work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same
terms. If they want to distribute modified works under other
terms, they must get your permission first.
Attribution — ShareAlike
CC BY-SA
Attribution — NoDerivs
CC BY-ND
Attribution — NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
NoDerivs
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only original
copies of your work. If they want to modify your work, they must
get your permission first.
h8p://jasonlinks.net/sharingyourwork
NonCommercial
You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and (unless you
have chosen NoDerivs) modify and use your work for any purpose
other than commercially unless they get your permission first.
Attribution — NonCommercial — ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
Attribution — NonCommercial — NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND

37. Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪
No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)‫‏‬
By
Karen
Fasimpaur
available
via
CC
BY

38. Attribution (BY)
is the least restrictive license

39. 1. Check with your district on materials
ownership/permission to release resources
as open resources.
2. Be certain that you are vetting OER
materials you are using before you release
and mind the restrictions.
3. Confirm and verify what any place that you
release your materials is also putting your
correct license choice in association with
your materials.
If you are a teacher…

40. 1. Learn with your staff to make sure that they
understand the reason for openly releasing
materials before they do so.
2. Pull teachers into the decision of which license
to use, but make an institutional decision.
3. Check to see how your materials are used
elsewhere (ask for an email!).
4. Share successes with your staff to encourage
future development.
5. Develop specific guidance and workflow on
HOW licenses are displayed and where
materials are released.
If you are an administrator…

41. Purposeful decision-making

42. Use of OER Materials in Your School

43. Modeling
Expecta0ons
Guidance
Follow-­‐up

44. Freedom
to
Crea0ve
Engaging
Learning
Environments
Mindfulness
to
the
legal
and
philosophical
restric0ons
of
open
licenses

45. Perfectly okay to acknowledge
Perfectly okay to acknowledge that this is complex…
complexity exists in this discussion…

46. Does
your
use
case
create
limit
what
materials
you
can
use
base
on
license?
How
can
you
cite
the
appropriate
materials?
Do
you
and
your
teachers
have
the
nuanced
skills
to
iden0fy
mislabeled
materials?
Are
you
minding
other
academic
requirements?

47. Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪
No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)‫‏‬
By
Karen
Fasimpaur
available
via
CC
BY

48. What does “noncommercial”
mean?
Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪
No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)‫‏‬
By
Karen
Fasimpaur
available
via
CC
BY

51. What does “share
alike” mean?
Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪
No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)‫‏‬
By
Karen
Fasimpaur
available
via
CC
BY

56. h8p://jasonlinks.net/cita0onguide

57. Provide
a
style
guide
for
teachers
(and
students)
Follow
up
when
observing
teachers
to
help
determine
their
correct
use
Remember
that
other
obliga0ons
might
exist
for
academic
cita0on
Encourage
teachers,
project
par0cipants
and
students
to
log
media/license
use

59. Start
with
ve8ed
photo
lists;
you
can
always
go
back
and
add
later.
Avoid
Google
Images/Bing
Images
unless
you
have
a
nuanced
eye
for
it.
If
you
are
working
as
a
teacher
or
with
teachers
on
a
project,
always
do
proof-­‐of-­‐concept
samples
If
it
is
too
good
to
be
true,
perhaps
it
is…
J

63. Purposeful decision-making

64. Websites:
www.neiffer.com
www.techsavvyteacher.com
www.montanadigitalacademy.org
www.umt.edu
Email:
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