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Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. Unlike traditionally copyrighted resources, OER have been licensed by their authors to permit no-cost access, reuse, adaptation, and redistribution. They may also exist in the public domain, free of all copyright restrictions.
Source: OER Commons (2026)
Digital ESL is proudly published as an Open Educational Resource (OER). You are free to downlown, use, adapt, and remix this material under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
What this means for you:
- BY (Attribution): You must provide appropriate credit. Please include a link to the original work so others can find the source.
- NC (Non-Commercial): This material is for educational use only. You may not sell this content or use it for commercial purposes.
- SA (Share Alike): If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you must distribute your contributions under the same CC BY-NC-SA license.
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How to cite this work
We encourage the reuse and adaptation of Digital ESL. To ensure proper credit is given, please use the following citation formats:
Minimalist (best for footers or image captions)
Digital ESL by Talley Caruso | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Standard (recommended for bibliographies)
Caruso, T. (2024). Digital ESL. Retrieved from https://oercommons.org/courses/digital-esl-an-open-educational-resource . Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Detailed (best for remixes and adaptations)
This work, [Insert Your New Title Here], is an adaptation of the original OER title Digital ESL authored by Talley Caruso. The original work and this derivative are both licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
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