LibGuides: OER: Open Educational Resources: Authoring OER

Authoring OER

Writing your own textbook or other OER material is a time-consuming task. Here are some links that will provide some assistance. ASCCC OERI staff recommend the use of LibreTexts for creating OER textbooks although they also say it has a somewhat steep learning curve.

If you have questions, please contact me, Jane Ishibashi, jishibashi@fullcoll.edu.

ASCCC OERI Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Framework 12-14-22 Version 2 (Draft)
The IDEA framework provides:
*an audit process and review framework to evaluate existing open educational resources to ensure that ASCCC OERI-supported open educational resources are inclusive, diverse, equitable, and anti-racist (IDEA).
*a curriculum audit process and review framework to assess instructional materials for equity, inclusiveness, diversity, and anti- racism and make the process and framework available for local consideration, modification, and implementation.
ASCCC OERI Libretext Resources
LibreTexts is an online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of Open Educational Resources (OER).

ASCCC OERI Style Guide
The ASCCC OERI Style Guide is directed at grant funded OER project authors, but the information is useful for anyone working on OER resources.

ASCCC OERI Web Page for OER Developers
ASCCC OERI page with OER development resources including OER platforms, attribution, printing, and articulation.

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. Authoring Open Textbooks by Open Textbook Network is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

C-ID Transfer Model Curriculum Information
TMC information to help OER authors determine if their work will transfer to CSU.
Choose a Creative Commons License
This is a tool to help you select the appropriate Creative Commons license for your work.
CSU General Education Requirements, C-ID, and Available Open Educational Resources (OER)
This web page is intended to serve as a resource for California community college (CCC) faculty and colleges that are seeking to develop entire degree pathways that use no-cost OER in lieu of commercial texts. It is not meant to be exhaustive. Courses are specified by C-ID designation, where available. Commonly taught courses not included in C-ID can be added and specified by title. It should be noted that the general education applicability of courses varies across colleges.
LibreTexts Webinars
Libretext videos on using the platform for editing, remixing and authoring OER texts.
OER Attributions and Licensing
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) Online Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) guide to Attributions and Licensing
OER Commons
OER Commons will allow you to create a standalone learning module, lesson, assignment, assessment or activity using OpenAuthor
OER Resource Summaries by Transfer Model Curriculum (TMC) and CSU GE/C-ID
How much impact will the OER you are creating have? Will it meet transfer requirements?

Template for Tracking Source Licensing
A tool for keeping track of the sources you find while gathering materials for your OER work.

LibreTexts

What is LibreTexts?

LibreTexts is a platform for OER publishing, printing, developing, “remixing”, interactive exercises, homework systems, and more.

Fullerton College has a LibreTexts landing page if you want to store and share your OER materials.

How Can I Learn How to Use LibreTexts Effectively?

Through using the Canvas course:

LibreTexts 101 and Beyond

All California Community Colleges now use Canvas as their course management system. Thus, "LibreTexts 101 and Beyond" was created to facilitate the use of OER that can be found in LibreTexts in Canvas. As one of the largest repositories of OER materials available, LibreTexts provides a powerful tool for faculty and an accessible and innovative learning experience for students. LibreTexts 101 and Beyond will provide you with an overview of how to:

"Explore The Libraries" to find resources in LibreTextsLinks to an external site and then integrate those resources into a Canvas course.
Adapt openly-licensed resources to your teaching style.
Remix multiple resources into a unique customized OER textbook.

ADAPT Libretexts' Adaptive Learning Assessment System

Instructional videos about using Libretexts ADAPT

Licenses and Attributions

Adopting OER Content

If you have found OER content that you want to use, verify the options allowed under the license. How can you use the content? Can you revise the OER as long as it isn't for commercial purposes? How do you create the attribution to give proper credit for the work?

Attributing Creative Common Materials A guide published by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (www.cci.edu.au) in partnership with Creative Commons Australia (http://creativecommons.org.au).

Best Practices for Attribution
You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution. Here are some good (and not so good) examples of attribution.
Best Practices for Citing Online Content and Avoiding Link Rot
Online content can change or vanish at any moment. The American Bar Association provides some best practices.
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Explore more than 833 billion web pages saved over time
Creative Commons Licenses
Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law. The six types of licenses are explained.
OER Licensing and Attributions
This webinar will provide an overview of the various Creative Commons licenses, how content with different licenses can be combined, and how to give proper attributions.
Open Washington Attribution Builder
This is a tool to help you build attributions.
Self-Paced Courses on OER Basics and Accessibility
The ASCCC OERI has developed two self-paced OER courses. At the end of OER Basics successful participants will be able to:
1) Properly identify the creative commons (CC) license on a resource and describe how this resource can and cannot be used.
2) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of open resources using current research in the field as evidence.
3) Research, analyze and review repositories of open resources.
4) Effectively search for open resources and post reviews in an OER repository.
5) Create an open resource by remixing multiple existing resources and designate a license to this new resource based on the licenses of multiple resources used.
Accessibility Basics provides an overview of accessibility not limited the context of OER.

Template for Tracking Source Licensing
A tool for keeping track of the sources you find while gathering materials for your OER work.

Copyright & Fair Use

Copyright

Please refer to the Copyright LibGuide for more information on copyright, fair use, Creative Commons licenses.

ASCCC Online Educational Resources Initiative's Archived Webinars:

Center for Media & Social Impact's Codes of Best Practices
The Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI) at American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C., is an innovation lab and research center that creates, studies and showcases media for social impact. They have compiled a set of best practices for the fair use of copyrighted media materials.
Copyright, Fair Use, and Piracy. Where does OER Fit In?
The use of OER and freely accessible digital resources has increased greatly during the pandemic as instructional faculty seek to support their students while teaching remotely. But an unprecedented situation does not give us permission to ignore copyright, “fair use”, and piracy. Join us for a refresher of these topics to ensure you’re demonstrating the academic integrity you expect of our students.
Copyright and Fair Use Mythbusters
You found a great resource for your class and shared it with students. Did you check the copyright? What is copyright? Why does it matter? Participants in this webinar will discover the inner workings of copyright, what it means, and why it matters. We will look at common copyright myths and ways to use various resources according to their permissions.
Creative Commons, Copyright, and Fair Use – Why do we need OER?
What is the difference between free content, open content, and fair use? Educators often overestimate what they can do with the fair use copyright exception and underestimate their options with open resources. Join us to learn about the requirements of fair use as well as how to interpret Creative Commons licenses.

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OER: Open Educational Resources: Authoring OER