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Accessibility: Accommodation for persons with disabilities.
Attribution (BY): Creative Commons license condition that allows others to copy, distribute, display and perform a copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give credit to the original author.
Creative Commons: Non-profit organization that manages a set of "some rights reserved" licenses that allow a variety of types of sharing of intellectual property.
Copyleft: Variation of the word 'copyright' used to denote licenses that are more flexible than traditional copyright, particularly ones that have a share alike requirement.
COSL: Center for Open and Sustainable Learning. Developer of eduCommons software.
eduCommons: Software designed to manage an OCW. Developed by COSL.
FORE: Free and Open Resources for Education.
FOSS: Free and Open Source Software.
GFDL: GNU Free Documentation License. Copyleft license sponsored by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Granularity: The size of an educational resource. The more granular a resource, the smaller the chunk of information it contains. For example, a single learning object, such as a graphic used in a lecture or for class teaching is more granular than a complete course presented in a format which prevents its being broken down.
IMS: IMS Global Learning Consortium is a global, nonprofit, member association that provides leadership in shaping and growing the learning and educational technology industries through collaborative support of standards.
Learning Object: A digital resource that can be reused to mediate learning.
License: The process of choosing and assigning a license to an open educational resource by the original creator of that resource. OER creators can choose from several licenses offered by organizations such as Creative Commons—with the license typically stipulating the conditions under which that resource can be used, shared, adapted, or distributed by other users. Localize: the act of making a resource better suited for a particular situation.
Linux: often used to describe a set of operating systems that are freely available. Based on another operating system called Unix.
Mac OS X: proprietary operating system used on Apple computers.
MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first university to create an OCW.
Non-Commercial (NC): Creative Commons license condition that allows others to copy, distribute, display and perform a creative work - and derivative works based on it - but for non-commercial purposes only.
No Derivatives (ND): Creative Commons license condition that lets others copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of a creative work, not derivative works based on it.
OCW: Open Courseware. Typically is a collection of higher education courses organized by department. The courses are licensed with a copyleft license.
OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
ODL: Open and Distance Learning.
OER: Open Educational Resource.
OLCOS: Open eLearning Content Observatory Services.
Open source: Refers to software in which the 'source,' or program code is available for anyone to use and modify.
Proprietary: Denotes traditional copyright restrictions or something that is exclusive.
Public domain: a state in which a resource is completely free of any copyright restrictions. The laws regarding public domain vary from country to country.
SCORM: Sharable Content Object Reference Model - a collection of specifications that enables interoperability, accessibility and reusability of web-based learning content.
Share Alike (SA): Creative Commons license condition that allows others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work. Social software: Type of software, including websites, that allow for collaboration and making connections.
RDF: Resource Description Framework. Format used for sharing between websites and applications.
Remix: the act of taking two of more resources and merging them in part or entirely to create a new resource.
RSS: Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication is a format used to aggregate and distribute short descriptions of web content (e.g. news headlines or blog posts), together with a link to the full version of the content.
Tag: Tags are a bottom up, user-generated classification system for educational resources, and frequently serve as an alternative or addition to a top down, expert-created classification system. Tags are words assigned to resources by the users of those resources. For example, one user of a lesson plan about the Spanish influenza of 1918 might assign a tag such as flu, while another might assign a tag such as pandemic. Once assigned by users, tags are tied to the given resource, and become a searchable way to find that resource as well as other resources that are tagged or associated with the same labels.
UNESCO: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. Supporter of OER initiatives.
USU: Utah State University. A university with an OCW and is the location of COSL.
UWC: University of the Western Cape.
Wiki: Type of interactive website that allows for fast and easy text editing. Many wikis allow anyone to edit them. Examples of wikis include Wikipedia, WikiEducator, and Wikiversity.

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