Creative Commons = CC

The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

More information

• Creative Commons www-site: https://creativecommons.org/
• Publish your material by using CC-license: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/
• Search CC materials by using meta-search: https://search.creativecommons.org/
• Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTwECeGqMZee77BjdoYtI2Q

Open Educational Resources = OER

Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. The term OER describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-mix, improve and redistribute under some licenses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

Open Education Global

Open Education Global (OEG) is a global, members based, non-profit organization supporting the development and use of open education around the world.

• www-site: https://www.oeglobal.org/
• Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-jcvZ6z94387QDu52g9VNA

ISKME & OER Commons

ISKME is an independent, education nonprofit whose mission is to improve the practice of continuous learning, collaboration, and change in the education sector. Established in 2002, ISKME conducts social science research, develops research-based innovations, and facilitates innovation that improves knowledge sharing in education.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

• ISKME www-site: https://www.iskme.org/
• ISKME Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ISKME/playlists
• OER Commons: https://www.oercommons.org/
• OER Commons Instructional Videos on Youtube (how to use OER commons):https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Az_PpZhNoIOk_Zss_kipTvTdoa0kulk

How to author (create) OER content?

Use Open Author! It's WYSIWYG tool for authoring OER content

Open Author is the tool for creating actual OER content and has just recently launched.

OER Commons, an organization focused on creating open educational resources for education, has developed a new tool for authoring OER. Open Author, as it's named, consolidates the functions of three other utilities from OER Commons: the Resource Builder, Lesson Builder and Module Builder. The program features: A what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor with an accessibility checker, copy and paste from Word and Excel, and a straightforward math editor; Tools for including images, with alt text and captions; Download options for PDF, EPUB3, SCORM and Thin Common Cartridge files; Import from Google and Microsoft OneDrive; and The ability to include a co-author. During content development, the author can view the material as either an instructor or learner would see it. For members of the OER Commons' community, existing materials are still available (through the My Items or Groups spaces). Once the material is ready for publication, others can remix the resource and use it with other materials.

https://thejournal.com/articles/2020/01/06/oer-commons-intros-authoring-tool.aspx