Open Access resources and Open Educational Resources are ways to bring in new content for your students to use at a low cost.
Open Access resources are provided at no cost to users to view. However, the copyright holder may prevent the adaption, reuse, and redistribution of the content outside of certain parameters. It means you may not be able to upload them completely into Moodle but linking to them is perfectly acceptable.
Open Educational Resources are all considered Open Resources but the applied licenses allow for reuse, retention, revision, redistribution and remix of the original item. Creative Commons licenses which include ND are not OER.
Here is a guide to Creative Commons licenses and tools and their logos. You may find these applied to images, videos or OER materials. They indicate how you may use the materials. You may also use these licenses for creative works or educational resources you create and would like to share.
If you use licensed work, make sure you follow the license and, most importantly, give proper attribution.
BY: Attribution
All Creative Commons licenses require attribution. Attribution is more than just giving credit. It also means including the following elements:
Title (of work), Author (the creator), Source (link to original) and License (link to CC license information.)
SA: ShareAlike
If you use the original work, you must share any derivatives or adaptations under the same license.
NC: NonCommercial
The works may not be reused for commercial purposes.
NoDerivatives:
The works may not be altered.
The four elements create six licenses. This short shows what you can do with each license.
Learn more about licenses and access license logos at Creative Commons.
The chart above includes public domain. Creative Commons has two public domain tools. These are not licenses.
Public Domain Mark: This tool marks creative works as knowingly being in the public domain. There are no restrictions on the use of these items.
CC0: This Creative Commons tool allows creators to remove all restrictions on how their creation is used. This effectively puts a work as far into the public domain as copyright law will allow.