Editing Open educational resources (section)

==Licensing and types==
[[File:Turning a Resource into an Open Educational Resource.webm|thumb|right|Turning a Resource into an Open Educational Resource]]

Open educational resources often involve issues relating to [[intellectual property]] rights. Traditional commercial educational materials, such as textbooks, are protected under conventional [[copyright]] terms. However, alternative and more flexible licensing options have become available as a result of the work of [[Creative Commons]], a non-profit organization that provides ready-made licensing agreements that are less restrictive than the "all rights reserved" terms of standard international copyright. These new options have become a "critical infrastructure service for the OER movement."<ref>{{Cite conference | publisher = The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | last = Atkins | first = Daniel E. | author2 = John Seely Brown | author3 = Allen L. Hammond | title = A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities | location = Menlo Park, CA | date = February 2007 | access-date = 2010-12-03 | page = 13 | url = http://www.hewlett.org/uploads/files/Hewlett_OER_report.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120309133727/http://www.hewlett.org/uploads/files/Hewlett_OER_report.pdf | archive-date = 2012-03-09 }}</ref> Another license, typically used by developers of OER software, is the [[GNU General Public License]] from the [[free and open-source software]] (FOSS) community. Open licensing allows uses of the materials that would not be easily permitted under copyright alone.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Jan |last=Hylén |title = Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources|place = Paris, France|publisher = OECD Publishing|year = 2007|page = 30|doi = 10.1787/9789264032125-en|access-date = 2010-12-03|url = http://www.sourceoecd.org/education/9789264031746|isbn=9789264031746 }}</ref>

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses available to anyone who wants to enroll.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://grammarist.com/spelling/enrol-enroll/|title=Enrol vs. enroll – Correct Spelling – Grammarist|website=[[Grammarist]]|date=18 March 2013|access-date=2019-09-24}}</ref> MOOCs offer a wide range of courses in many different subjects to allow people to learn in an affordable and easy manner.<ref>{{cite web |last1=edX |title=Mooc.org |url=http://mooc.org}}</ref>

Types of open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, [[learning object]]s, [[open textbook]]s, openly licensed (often streamed) videos, tests, software, and other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.<ref name=":6" /> OER may be freely and openly available static resources, dynamic resources which change over time in the course of having knowledge seekers interacting with and updating them, or a course or module with a combination of these resources.