Copyright and content you can use

Bond University is committed to ensuring that staff using technology as part of their teaching activities both understand and use appropriate practices to ensure that all uses of copyright material are in compliance with the Australian Copyright Act 1968.

If  used incorrectly there is a potential risk of breaching copyright.

Use of Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons material is recommended.

The following types of material can be copied and shared:

• Material in which copyright has expired (is in the Public Domain).

• Material of which you are the author/copyright owner.

• Material in which Bond University holds the copyright.

• The copyright owner has granted you written permission to use their work.

• Material licensed for Open Access e.g. with a Creative Commons Licence.

The Library's subscriptions to electronic resources include use of resources for educational purposes. It is safest to link or embed electronic resources unless it is clear that copies can be made.

Creative Commons provide access to licensed media that you can legally share and reuse for free.

Creative Commons Licenses: The copyright holder keeps copyright but allows people to copy and distribute copyrighted work provided they meet the stipulations in the license.

Material sourced from a Creative Commons or a copyright friendly website can be directly uploaded into iLearn.

Use the Creative Commons licence icon and providie a link back to the source of the material and the licence.

See the Smartcopying site for more practical tips on using CC materials.

Educators can easily create accessible resource lists via iLearn.

The vast wealth of digital resources available through Library Search and material in databases and copyright compliant internet sites can be selected and seamlessly displayed in iLearn for easy access for educators and students. 

This guide sets out all the steps for creating and manageing resource lists, and how to use the easy integrated linking feature in iLearn.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning resources that have been openly licensed or are in the public domain, and can be used or reused for free.

OER includes text (either print or digital); audio, video, or multimedia, or various combinations of these, provided that they are openly licensed and free. They can support a single learning point, a lesson, a series of lessons, a whole course, or even an entire programme of study.

Explore and use this sites for Open Education content and resources :

• OER Commons Open Educational Resources
• EOL Encyclopedia of Life 
• Wiki Educator
• Open University
• Connexions
• Open Access Textbooks project 

Visit the Smartcopying site which has a useful OER toolkit for teachers, curriculum and elearning developers.

A taste of OER

This OER explores the basic operations of a Sundial. It contains both an activity as well as resources for further exploration. It is a product of the OU Academy of the Lynx, developed in conjunction with the Galileo's World Exhibition at the University of Oklahoma.

Learning Goals

• Provide a basic 5 minute activity with a Sundial, as well as digital resources for further exploration.

Go to the OER commons Sundials page to see the resources on offer. The summary PDF is available below.

"Sundials" 2015 by userBrent Purkaple
under licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International