How to Choose an Open Licence

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How to Choose an Open Licence

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National Forum

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Teaching & Learning

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Accessibility & Inclusion, National Forum Publications, Open Education

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CC BY

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How to Choose an Open Licence is the second guide in the National Forum OER/OEP Series: Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices. The first guide in the series was the National Forum Open Licensing Toolkit, published in 2019.

Benefit of this resource and how to make the best use of it

The aim of these guides, and future guides in the series, is to provide practical information for anyone wishing to use open educational resources (OER) and/or open educational practices (OEP) in order to enhance teaching and learning.

This resource is licensed with a Creative Commons CC BY licence, meaning you are welcome to reuse and remix, as long as attribution is provided to the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

This work is licensed under a CC BY license, allowing sharing and adaptation with proper attribution.

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National Forum (08/07/2020). How to choose an open licence. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/how-to-choose-an-open-licence/ License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).

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