
Unit 4: Copyright - Guidance on using OERs
Staff and students may wish to use Open Educational Resources (OERs) to support learning and teaching, including images, audio or video resources, animations and other digital resources.
- GCU encourages staff and students to use OERs to enhance the quality of the student experience, provided that resources used are fit-for-purpose and relevant.
- When using OERs, students and staff must comply with the terms of the licence of use. For example, if the original resource has a share-alike component to its licence, then the resulting composite OER should be published under the same licence as the original.
- Cite the OERs you use. Include as much information as possible, especially the title and author of the resource, a link to where you found the content online, and a note of the licence applied to the content. If you cannot identify all of these elements then just include as many of them as you can.
A standard citation format is:
Type of content: Title by Author. Link (Licence)
For example:
Image: The Thinker by John Smith. http://commons.wikimedia.org (CC-BY-SA-3.0)
- OERs used by individual staff and students should normally be single units (learning objects) or small collections (such as podcast episodes or small collections of images) rather than whole courses.
- All OERs used should where possible comply with the GCU guidance on accessibility.
For further advice and guidance please email copyright@gcu.ac.uk or call the library’s Digital Development team on 0141 273 1249.
SMILE - Copyright by Marion Kelt, GCU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License.