Open Educational Resources (OER): Create Your Own OER

The College of Southern Idaho has its own Pressbooks instance. You can retrieve books created by others at the Pressbooks Directory, but this site is the place for you to create your own OER materials. To gain access, you will need to talk to Reed Hepler, who is the Pressbooks Network Manager. He has experience creating OER materials, including items that incorporate H5P, a data format used to create interactive, formative assessments and assignments. He can help you get started and lead you from start to publishing!

From: Open Education: A "Simple" Introduction, by  David Wiley, CC Attribution License https://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/open-education-a-simple-introduction

"Open Educational Resources are broadly considered to meet the “5Rs Framework,” meaning that users are free to:

1. Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
2. Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
3. Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
4. Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
5. Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)

(Defining the "Open" in Open Content and Open Educational Resources, http://opencontent.org/)

After you have created your own OER item, you have a responsibility to make it available to other people. Luckily, we have a way to facilitate this action. You or Reed can put it on the NIAL OER Collections Repository on OER Commons. You can easily become a member and upload or save your OER materials to this site.

Authoring Open Textbooks
"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."

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."

Texas Learn OER
"Welcome to Texas Learn OER! Your learning includes a series of self-paced online learning modules. The first nine modules will serve as an introduction to open educational resources (OER) and as an opportunity for further exploration and discovery of open education practices. The tenth module serves as a final assessment of your learning."

The OER Starter Kit
Author:Abbey Elder - Iowa State University
"This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education. [Version 1.1. Revised September 5th, 2019.]"

Faculty Guide for Evaluating Open Education Resources (PDF)
Checklist with suggestions  on using OER by BCOER librarians.

Guidelines for Open Educational Resources in Higher Education
"The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge, resources and technologies."