There are many open educational resources that are available for teachers to use for free in their classrooms. These resources allow teachers to share information with their students. However, teachers need to know how to use the resources correctly. Most of the time when a teacher needs something, they just do a quick Google search for it and then use whatever they find. This method is typically unethical and not legal. As teachers, we need to make sure that we are following copyright laws and regulations. Teachers need to understand how licenses work and what restrictions are placed upon resources. These resources can be found using the Advanced Search in Google or by searching the Creative Commons website.
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that allows people to share their resources and allows educations to search for and use resources ethically and legally within their classrooms. There are four different types of restrictions that can be placed on resources.
1) Attribution - This means that someone may use the work, as long as you get credit for it.
2) Noncommercial -This means that someone can use your work as long as they are not making money from it.
3) No Derivative Works - This means that the resource can be used only if the original work is not modified or changed in any way.
4) Share-Alike - This allows people to modify the work as long as they share it with the same terms that were on the original work. So if the original resources had the attribution restriction and the share-alike restriction, when the person who modified it does to share it, it must have an attribution to the original restriction and share-alike restriction.
These restrictions can be placed on the resource however the original creator wants to do so. There are eleven different combinations that can be used for these four restrictions.
Lastly, if a person would like to relinquish all rights to their work, they may do so by simply using the creative commons website to make it available to the public domain. the public domain license allows the person to hold "no rights reserved" to their work so that anyone may use it.
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