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Creating OER
A Guide to Making Open Textbooks
A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other open educational resources.
OER Myths
This guide is designed to help Tacoma Community College faculty find, create, evaluate, and incorporate open educational resources for instruction.
Remixing and Revising OER
This guide, provided by the Christine and Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Library and Learning Center of the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is an introduction to where to find, how to evaluate, and how to create open educational resources.
Licensing OER
Creative Commons Licenses and Examples
From the Creative Commons website. Read more about the conditions and features of the six main CC licenses.
Creative Commons License Chooser
Use this tool to help you decide which CC license is appropriate for your work and for what rights you want to keep or share.
The Simple Guide to Creative Commons Resources
This is a comprehensive guide to creative commons works, proper use and attribution, and tips for helping you find great (and usable) content.
OER Publishing Platforms and Repositories
Digital Commons: All Institutions
Institutional repositories are one method to publish materials. Use this list to determine if your institution has an institutional repository through Digital Commons. Digital Commons is not the only institutional repository service around, so check with your campus even if your institution isn’t listed.
MERLOT: Contribute Material
MERLOT is one of the biggest and first OER repositories. You can submit published OER content here to be findable by anyone searching MERLOT.
OER Authoring Tools
A non-exhaustive list of OER Authoring Tools compiled by Michele DeSilva, COCC & Amy Hofer, Open Oregon.
OER Authoring Tools
A clearinghouse of OER, including learning object repositories, open course repositories, scholarly repositories, open textbooks, and information about open learning/education in general compiled by SUNY Empire State College.
OER Commons: Submit OER
OER Commons is a popular repository for OER. Submit published OER here to be findable by anyone searching OER Commons.
OER Production Resources
This page provides various tools and resources for producing OER content in a variety of formats and media. This is not an exhaustive list, but may provide inspiration.
Open Textbooks
Guide to Authoring Open Textbooks
This guide includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources and an overview of useful tools.
A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
This handbook from the Rebus community provides guidance for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other OER.
BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide
The BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide is a reference for individuals or groups wanting to write and self-publish an open textbook. This guide provides details on the preparation, planning, writing, publication, and maintenance of an open textbook.
Pressbooks Guide
This guide specifically addresses the creation and adaptation of open textbooks and other OER using the Pressbooks platform.
Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion
Accessibility and Open Educational Resources
This resource provides examples, key factors and resources about accessibility of OERs.
Accessibility Guidelines
This site provides guides, rubrics, and other resources related to accessibility.
OER Accessibility Toolkit
The goal of the OER Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the resources needed to content creator, instructor, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open and accessible educational resource.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in OER
In this 55 minute webinar recording, speakers Maha Bali (The American University in Cairo) Alan Harnum (OCAD), and Susan Doner (Camosun College) discuss Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in OER.
Office Hours Recap and Video: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Open Textbooks
In this conversation about diversity, equity, and inclusion in open textbooks, guest speakers and participants identified several aspects of OER that deserve attention and improvement.
Equity and Openness
This series of blog posts from members of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) shares conversations about equity, diversity, and inclusion in OER.
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