Open Educational Resources

This section will cover the whys and hows of remixing and revising OER, and what goes into creating original OER.

Modifying an Open Textbook by Cheryl Cuillier, Amy Hofer, Annie Johnson, Kathleen Labadorf, Karen Lauritsen, Peter Potter, Richard Saunders, Anita Walz

• This is a five-step guide for faculty, and those who support faculty, who want to modify an open textbook. Step-by-step instructions for importing and editing common open textbook file and platform types are included.

6 Steps to Modifying an Open Textbook by BCcampus

• Covers license checking, original format, editing tools, license application, output format, and hosting.

Examples: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+create+oer&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1055&oq=how+to+create+oer&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i10i22i30i625j0i10i22i30l3j0i10i22i30i625j0i22i30l4.2528j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Authoring Open Textbooks by Melissa Falldin and Karen Lauritsen

• This guide is for faculty authors, librarians, project managers and others who are involved in the production of open textbooks in higher education and K-12. Content includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources and an overview of useful tools.

OER Commons: Open Author

• "Create Open Educational Resources (on your own, or with others) with our publishing tools. Our authoring tools help you build OER, lesson plans, and courses—and then publish them, to the benefit of educators and learners everywhere. Learn more about creating on OER Commons and get started."

OpenStax CNX

• "View and share free educational material in small modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports or other academic assignments."

Pressbooks

• "Pressbooks is easy-to-use book writing software that lets you create a book in all the formats you need to publish."

TedEd: Lessons Worth Sharing

• "Build a lesson around any TED-ED Original, TED Talk or YouTube Video"

MERLOT: Content Builder

• "Webpages are easily created using Content Builder's templates. These include a variety of designs including e-portfolio structures, lesson plans, author guidelines, quality assurance, teaching tips, course redesign, online course, etc."

Google: Online Course Kit

• "With an online course, you can build a classroom anyone can access, from anywhere. You can teach potential students anything — from physics to philosophy to community-building. Whatever your subject, you can build a course with lessons, assessments, and interactive assignments."

C2E (Curriki Educational Experiences) is "an open source project that publishes the C2E Document Specification, its APIs and its MIT-licensed reference implementations that support the creation and distribution of secure, portable, licenseable, and quality assured digital educational content. Maintained by the non-profit Curriki.org, C2E aims to create an open specification, publish an open API, and  drive a vibrant ecosystem that delivers on the promise of high quality digital educational experiences for all." How it works: (https://c2e.curriki.org/)

Diverse and Inclusive Representation in OER: Guidelines from BCcampus on developing OER with inclusive content.

CC License Chooser

https://libraryguides.lib.iup.edu/oer/creating_oer Pressbooks is simple book production software. It allows you to write a book using the sofware or import a manuscript, choose a book design theme, and export into all the file formats you need to publish your book:

• MOBI format (for Kindle ebooks)

• EPUB format (for all other ebookstores)

• designed PDF (for print-on-demand)

• more exotic XML formats

Pressbooks is used by authors and publishers around the world (Pressbooks, 2017, para. 1).

For online tutorials that teach you how to use Pressbooks, visit the following YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/pressbooks