Submitting materials to oer commons  (Page 4/5)

The GFDL license grants rights to readers and users of materials to copy, share, redistribute and modify a work. It requires all copies and derivatives to be available under the same license. Copies may also be sold commercially. There are specific requirements for modifying works involving crediting the creator of the work and for distributing large numbers of copies.

Custom/Other : Custom License is used to describe the terms granted and restrictions imposed by the copyright holder for a work covered by copyright in order to provide a clear alternative to“All Rights Reserved.”It simply allows the creator of a work to state conditions for which educators and learners may view, use, share, re-distribute, or modify a work. Allowing“use for educational purposes only,”for example, grants a reader or user of a work the opportunity to use it in a classroom or for personal learning or research purposes without needing to ask permission or pay a fee. Permission to alter a work may be prohibited or not, and the conditions may be specifically described. Commercial use may also be prohibited and can specifically be stated as such.

Non-compatibility of Licenses

The differing requirements and restrictions of Creative Commons (CC), GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and Custom-licensed or Copyrighted (All Rights Reserved) materials, make these licenses incompatible with each other. Combining content across license type is still a legal and technical obstacle for creating thoroughly remixable content.

More may be learned on this subject at the entry for“ Free Content ”in Wikipedia, where you can find many links on the legal and philosophical distinctions around licensing content.

Final Step in Submitting Material in OER Commons

After identifying the license/copyright holder’s name, by clicking the“Save”button, your submission is sent to the OER Commons Team.

To learn more about OER Conditions of Use, please refer to the module“ OER Licensing and Conditions of Use .”

Submit library or collection

Items in the OER Commons Libraries and Collections are resources from digital media collections and libraries of digitized primary sources. These resources are from primary sources, special collections of pedagogical materials, and other tools, texts, and reference-based web sites that are useful for teaching and learning.

Here are two examples from Libraries and Collections:

• Making Decisions (from the OpenLearn/Open University collection).

• Case Studies in Terrorism Response (from the JHSPH OpenCourseWare collection).

The“ Submit Library or Collection ”form is similar to the one for submitting course-related materials. The only difference is you are not asked whether the work was modified from preexisting/parent materials. Follow the instructions in the section“Submit your course-related materials.”

Submit oer matters content

The types of items collected in OER Matters are items such as: news, articles, reports, new tools, technologies, wiki spaces, blog posts, upcoming conferences, and discussions from other sites around the web. To see examples of OER Matters items, go to the OER Matters page and click on each topic name to browse items by topics.