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Open Educational Resources (OER): Make It Your Own

This guide provides information and resources for faculty who are interested in exploring opportunities for using textbooks and learning materials published through non-commercial sources in their (physical or virtual) classrooms.

Adapt, Create

Image compares OER resources with commercial education products, representing OER as sunshine, and free, and commercial products as grey, and costly.

Once you've gotten comfortable in the realm of OER resources, you can start moving toward becoming part of the creative process. An easy way to start is to find some resources to supplement what you are already using. You may be ready to adapt a resource that almost fits your needs, but could be a little better. Don't forget to check the licensing conditions on anything you plan to adapt. Getting excited about all this? Create your own textbook, course, video or other material to share. Need time or funds? Don't forget that the library can help you to search for grant funding.

Oer-diagram-(adapt), by Sunshine Connelly, used under a under a CC BY license.

Licensing Tools

Media Tools

Music and Sound

Graphics and Images

Video and Animation

Authoring Tools

Creating Open Educational Resources: Tips for New Creators

Creating OER and Combining Licenses

Make it Accessible!

Credits

This guide was developed by Leslie Murtha, Robert Mast, Amanda Carey, Janet Hauge, and Mike Sargente, Atlantic Cape Community College Libraries.
Published June 2020.