LibGuides: Faculty Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER): Author/Create Open Content

Creating Open Educational Resources: Tips for New Creators

This video contains 5 tips for instructors creating OER for the first time: 1) Determine how your OER will meet your course's needs 2) Check if you've already created something you can use as a base for your OER 3) Evaluate tools and determine where you will build your OER 4) Consider what license you will apply to your OER 5) Decide where and how you want to share your OER.

"Creating Open Educational Resources" by Abbey Elder is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Guides for Authoring Open Content

Self-Publishing Guide: A reference for writing and self-publishing an open textbook by Lauri M. Aesoph
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.
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 Publishing Platforms

LibreTexts
An easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER). It is highly collaborative, has 3D capabilities, multimedia including videos and simulations, student tracking and assessment, an integrated annotation infrastructure and can be embedded into Blackboard.
Open Author
Developed by OER Commons, this source has various tools for creating OER from scratch or harnessing existing open content to encourage students to solve specific tasks. OER Commons’ authoring platform, Open Author, can be used either to design and create individual resources or to lay out the structure of an open textbook.
Pressbooks
Features include the ability to create and remix, but also features other tools for building hypotheses, web annotations, and mathematical tools for equations and formulas, and tools for advanced text formatting.
Rebus Press
Our platform guides open textbook projects through the publishing workflow and makes it easy to find, recruit, and organize collaborators. Find a project you can help, or start one of your own.