Once you’ve adapted a resource or created a new one from scratch (alone, or together with students or colleagues), you can share it online as an Open Educational Resource (OER). Before doing so, you need to license your resource with an open license. On this page, we provide a guide detailing how to pick and apply an open Creative Commons license to your work, and how and where you can subsequently your own open educational resource online. There are two steps to licensing your work: determining what type of license you need, and actually getting the license. As OER are open materials, you will need to get a Creative Commons license for your work (or make it part of the public domain). In essence, this means that people can freely, and legally, retain, reuse, alter and reshare your materials or derivatives made from them.
