
Unit 4: Copyright - Guidance on creating OERs
GCU staff use a wide range of self-generated teaching materials to support high quality teaching, including teaching notes, hand-outs, audio, video, images, animations and others. Staff who wish to create and publish these resources as Open Educational Resources (OERs) should use the following guidance:
- GCU encourages staff to create and publish OERs to enhance the quality of the student experience, provided that the resources created are fit-for-purpose and relevant.
- Staff should clearly identify themselves as the creator(s) of an OER by adding their names to the resource and, when publishing an OER, to any associated metadata. This allows those reusing the OER to clearly attribute the creator(s).
- Staff should clearly identify their affiliation by adding it to the resource and, when publishing an OER, to any associated metadata. For example:
John Smith, Glasgow Caledonian University. - Staff should ensure that they are legally allowed to reuse any third party content within their OERs by complying with the terms of the licence of use on such third party content. For more information please visit our reusing content page.
- It is expected that OERs created and published by staff will normally be single units (learning objects) or small collections (such as podcast episodes or small collections of images) rather than whole courses.
- If you are creating a whole course, such as a MOOC, then you should consult your Head of School, Department or Service as they may wish to restrict publication based on the protection of GCU’s commercial interests.
- All OERs created should where possible comply with the GCU accessibility guidance.
- It is the responsibility of staff to ensure that they have the necessary rights to publish an OER.
- GCU suggests staff publish OERs using a CC-BY Creative Commons attribution licence. Other Creative Commons licences may be used if staff feel this is necessary or appropriate for their particular resource, or to comply with the licence terms of any third party content used in the resource.
- If possible OERs should include GCU branding. Templates and advice are available from the Marketing department.
Where students produce OERs as part of their programme of study or within a staff-directed project, these guidelines should be followed and a procedure for staff checking of OERs should put in place before external publication.
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.