User:Nicholas/My Scratch Pad

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There are many resources available online. However you need to be aware of the usage rights associated with such resources. Usage rights determine how you will use the resource(s) considering whether you can be able to customise and share the resource with your students.

Open Educational Resources
Open educational resources as defined be UNESCO as Web-based materials offered freely and openly for use and reuse in teaching, learning and research. These materials are only open if they are released under an open license. They include any tool, material or technique used to support access to knowledge.

OER Components
OERs comprises of:
 * Open Course Content
 * Open Source development tools
 * Open standards and licensing tools

Copyrights and Licenses
Copyrights and Licenses are part of intellectual property measures that are generally applied by law to protect creative works that have economic value.


 * 1) Click here to get more information on Patents
 * 2) More information on copyrights
 * 3) More information on trademarks

Creative commons licenses
Creative Commons licenses consist of four major condition modules: Attribution (BY), requiring attribution to the original author; Share Alike (SA), allowing derivative works under the same or a similar license (later or jurisdiction version); Non-Commercial (NC), requiring the work is not used for commercial purposes; and No Derivative Works (ND), allowing only the original work, without derivatives.[16] These modules are combined to currently form six major licenses of the Creative Commons:




 * 1) Attribution (CC BY)
 * 2) Attribution Share Alike (CC BY-SA)
 * 3) Attribution No Derivatives (CC BY-ND)
 * 4) Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC)
 * 5) Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
 * 6) Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)

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