Open Educational Resources (OER): Resources

An easy-to-use platform for adapting, remixing or creating and publishing OER. All faculty and staff who teach/work at USG have access to the Pressbooks Newtork for free.

Free online tool for creating, adapting and remixing OER.

A digital book publishing platform that can be used to create and publish OER and open access books. Includes features to be used in the classroom, such as having students annotate texts in private or to co-author texts.

Created by instructors at the University of Maryland, College Park to have a free and flexible resource for faculty to easily create use and adapt to meet their needs.

An open-source book production platform. Developed and maintained by the Coko Foundation.

Created by GitHub. Platform for creating electronic books with both free and paid pricing models.

Comprehensive manual for those new to OER. The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER.

A practical guide for creating open textbooks that are accessible for all students. Includes an accessibility checklist. This resource is a collaboration between BCcampus, Camosun College, and CAPER-BC

Created by the Open Education Network. Includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources and an overview of useful tools. Also has a section on adapting OER.

Edited volume from the Rebus Community for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in OER creation.

Provides strategies for authors to incorporate DEI practices into OER creation.

Toolkit created by the California Consortium for Equitable Change in Hispanic Serving Institutions with Open Educational Resources to aid educators in creating OER.

Guide for using the TASL system -Title, Author, Source, and License - when reusing openly-licensed materials

Canadian foundation that offers professional development and tools to create OER, including the Textbook Success Program.

List of links to the documentation for various tools that can help with creating OER and/or implementing open educational practices. Created by an OER task force at the University of Iowa. This includes software, apps, etc broken into use categories, with an index of documentation/tutorials on their use. The tools are also labeled to show if they are free/paid/freemium, and whether they are open or proprietary.

Annual grants offered through the USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation. Grant categories include Adopt/Adapt and Create/Revise & Publish faculty grants and Institutional Grants.

For the faculty grants, in addition to the monetary support, faculty also participate in communities of practice through the Lumen Learning Circles or Rebus Community Textbook Success Program.

Faculty Academic Center of Excellence at Towson (FACET) periodically offers grants to faculty for exploration or adoption/adaptation of OER for their classes. In addition to grants, recipients receive support and mentoring by the TU OER Community of Practice (CoP).

Various types of awards available. Not specifically for OER, but for innovation in teaching so could have an OER-focused project.

Administered by the Teaching and Learning Transformation Center, these small grants allow faculty to incorporate innovative practices into their courses.