Open Content Tutorial
The purpose of the open content guidelines is to insure that we can share our innovative solutions to difficult instructional problems as widely as possible without violating copyright law. The phrase open content describes educational materials that have a copyright license allowing anyone to download, use, revise, and share the materials without cost. Submissions to the Innovative Instruction Competition must use a Creative Commons license. Questions about Creative Commons licencing in your specific context can be directed to David Wiley (david.wiley@byu.edu).
All the words, pictures, video, and audio in your submission should be
- original work created entirely by you and your team,
- existing works that use a Creative Commons license, or
- existing works with copyrights that have expired (i.e., works in the public domain).
If you choose to reuse existing media in your submission, which we encourage, you can find appropriately licensed works at the following locations:
- Pictures - Over 100,000,000 photos (using a Creative Commons license) are available on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons.
- Audio - Hundreds of full music albums in almost every genre (using a Creative Commons license) are available from Magnatune - http://magnatune.com.
- Audio - Over 10,000 samples and sound effects (using a Creative Commons license) are available from Freesound - http://www.freesound.org.
- Video - Over 1,000 videos (in the public domain) are available from Public.Resource.Org on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg.
- Words - Over 30,000 books (in the public domain) on hundreds of subjects are available from Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org.
- Words and Pictures - Over 3,000,000 encyclopedia articles with accompanying pictures (all of which use Creative Commons licenses) are available from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org.
- Additional materials that use Creative Commons licenses can be found by searching at http://search.creativecommons.org.
You must submit a Credits file with reference web links to any original media files you reused in your submission (like a bibliography for a research paper).