When you have created a completely new work, an adaptation or a collection you may apply a Creative Commons license to it. Doing this will make it easier for your work to be utilized in education and by society at large. You can read more on the benefits of sharing open resources in education in the wikiwijs ‘Open Educational Resources at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences’.
Who may license a work
A license may only be applied by the copyright holder of a work.
Also take the following into consideration:
Did you include materials made by others?
Which license you may choose is influenced by the way you've used other CC licensed materials in your work.
First determine which of the options below applies to the material you will be licensing.
Licensing completely self-made material
This is a work in which no other CC licensed works have been (re)used
Licensing a collection
This is a compilation of CC licensed works, in which each of the used materials is still distinctly separate
Licensing an adaptation
This is a new work based on one or more existing works. The used existing works have been altered or blended in sufficiently for the new work to be entitled to its own copyright
What to consider when licensing each of these types of works, will be explained in the next segments.