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- All Creative Commons licenses require that the user provides Attribution (BY)-- that is, identifies the copyright owner of the work. No plagiarism allowed!
- The No Derivatives (ND) option restricts other people from preparing things based on the work (derivatives)
- The NonCommercial (NC) option allows people to prepare derivative works using the work, but not to distribute them commercially.
- The ShareAlike (SA) provision allows users to create derivative works from the work, but those the derivatives must be released under the same Creative Commons license as the original.
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Finding Creative Commons Educational Resources
- Creative Commons itself links to some educational projects: http://creativecommons.org/education including MIT OpenCourseware.
- The Open Educational Resources' OER Commons also provides links to courseware: http://www.oercommons.org/
- as does Connexions http://cnx.org/ , an educational module repository hosted at Rice University.
The Basic Guide to OER, http://www.col.org/PublicationDocuments/Basic-Guide-To-OER.pdf, Prepared by Neil Butcher for the Commonwealth of Learning & UNESCO, has these further suggestions:
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