Subject Guides: Open Educational Resources: Create OER

Guidelines for Creating & Sharing OER

When creating and sharing OER, keep the following considerations in mind:

1. Design for Openness

Ensure that you have permission to publish all of the content in your materials. If you use third-party content, make sure to address copyright considerations in the following ways:

Use Creative Commons search to find openly licensed content to remix with your materials.
Use Open Attribute to properly attribute content.

2. Choose a License

A Creative Commons license provides the legal framework to share materials. Attribution is always a requirement, and the author can decide whether or not to allow remixing of content and/or commercial use. If possible, embed the license HTML code in your webpage to allow your materials to appear in Creative Commons search results.

Choose a Creative Commons License
Use the license building tool from Creative Commons to determine how a new work should be used.

3. Publish & Share

Make your materials available online using a public URL. You can upload your materials to your personal website, or share them directly in an educational repository such as:

DigiNole: The FSU Research Repository
The FSU Research Repository is a digital publishing platform for scholarly and creative works by FSU faculty, students, and staff.
The Orange Grove - Health Science
Florida’s digital repository for instructional resources, which includes a collection of open textbooks on a variety of subjects.
OER Commons - Health, Medicine, and Nursing
OER Commons is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to discover OER and other freely available instructional materials.
MERLOT Health Sciences Community Portal
The MERLOT Health Sciences Portal is an educational resource for health professionals, health educators, and students.

Guides for Creating OER

OER Accessibility Toolkit
From the University of British Columbia; Best practices and more for creating open, accessible educational resources.
Authoring Open Textbooks
This open textbook authoring guide includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources, and an overview of useful tools.
Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
This handbook was designed for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other OER.
Modifying an Open Textbook: What You Need to Know
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.

Open Educational Resources: Create OER

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Guidelines for Creating & Sharing OER

Guides for Creating OER

Video: Creating OER and Combining Licenses