SDCC Library: Open Educational Resources (OER): Create/Customize OER

How to Create or Customize OER

Accessibility Toolkit (2nd ed., A. Coolidge et al.)
"The goal of this accessibility toolkit, 2nd edition, is to provide resources for each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open textbook—one that is free and accessible for all students."
Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Classroom (Lumen Learning)
"This course provides faculty with an introduction to the laws that influence the use, re-use, and distribution of content they may want to use in a course. Activities include finding openly licensed content for use in a class and publishing openly licensed works created by faculty. At the end of the course, students will have openly licensed content that will be ready for use in a course."
Authoring Open Textbooks (M. Falldin and K. 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."
BC Campus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide (L. 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.
A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students (Ed. by E. Mays)
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. This is a first edition, compiled by Rebus Community, and we welcome feedback and ideas to expand the text.
Modifying an Open Textbook: What You Need to Know (C. Cuillier et al.)
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.
MOUs and Adaptable OER Publishing Agreements
"Using a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or other contract or formal agreement between you, the publisher, and the author is very important. Not only will it clarify expectations, but it may surface questions about who owns the copyright and what faculty union/bargaining agreements may allow at your institution."
Rights Reversion
Info on how to regain your copyright on a text originally published under contract with a publisher, whether out-or-print or not.

Tools for Authoring/Creating OER

Bookdown
Create HTML, PDF, ePub, and Kindle books with "a free and open-source R package built on top of R Markdown to make it really easy to write books and long-form articles/reports."
LibreTexts Construction Guide
"The goal of the LibreTexts project is to establish a vetted, comprehensive, and widely-used platform for the dissemination and implementation of customized course materials for post-secondary courses, while significantly reducing existing textbook costs for students. The LibreTexts project consists of 12 independently operating and interconnected “libraries” that focus on augmenting education in separate fields via a series of open-access online textbook environments that includes complementary ancillaries that advance diverse pedagogical methods and support multiple student learning styles."
Markdown Converter - University of Oklahoma Libraries
"By using the Markdown Converter, well-structured documents can be converted into PDF, HTML, EPUB, and DOCX file formats with an easy-to-use web interface . . ."
OER Commons Open Author
"Add your particular expertise to the wider community. Create Open Educational Resources (OER) with our publishing tool, Open Author. Open Author helps you build Open Educational Resources, lesson plans, and courses (on your own, or with others) — and then publish them, to the benefit of educators and learners everywhere. Learn more about creating on OER Commons and get started."

Creative Commons License for Your Work

Ready to share your new OER with the world? Here is how to get started with Creative Commons licensing:

Creative Commons: Share Your Work
Frequently Asked Intellectual Property & Legal Questions (OpenStax)
Directed at writers for OpenStax, but informative for any OER creator.

Using OpenStax in Canvas

Want to import an existing OpenStax textbook into Canvas? Click on the graphic below to go to the video:

"In this 9-minute video, SRJC Math faculty Dr. Jennifer Carlin-Goldberg shows how she uses Canvas Commons to import sample course shells with free OpenStax content produced by and aligned with the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative's course design standards. Jennifer also gives us a tour of her hybrid Statistics class in Canvas and explains how she integrated OpenStax content with her own materials along with shared quizzes and YouTube videos designed to go with the OpenStax textbook."

Free OpenStax Textbooks in Canvas Commons by the CCC OEI