Open Education Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. That means they have been authored or created by an individual or organization that chooses to retain few, if any, ownership rights. For some of these resources, that means you can download the resource and share it with colleagues and students. For others, it may be that you can download a resource, edit it in some way, and then re-post it as a remixed work. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.
— from OER Commons

OER content does not require a request for permission to use it. There are 5 R’s of Open Education Resources use.

1. Retain: You can keep the work forever.
2. Reuse: You can use the work for your own purpose.
3. Revise: You can adapt, modify, or translate the work.
4. Remix: You can combine it with another resource