College Libraries: Open Educational Resources (OER) at SUNY Potsdam: Create OER

Guides to OER Adoption and Creation online

Open Educational Practice
OER Commons' Open Educational Practice Hub includes resources for educators about how to find, curate, evaluate, share, and license OER. Other topics, like OER Advocacy, are also covered.
Modifying an Open Textbook: What You Need to Know
A brief, 5-step guide on how to edit an open textbook for use in your course.
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The Open Textbook Network, CC BY
Authoring Open Textbooks
A guide for the production of open textbooks, published by the Open Textbook Network.
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The Open Textbook Network, CC BY
Guide to Developing Open Textbooks
This guide was created to assist instructors on creating and maintaining open textbooks.
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Andrew Moore & Neil Butcher, CC BY SA 4.0
BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit
The BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit provides information for authors on how to create an open and accessible textbook for all users.
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B.C. Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit by Amanda Coolidge, Sue Doner, and Tara Robertson used under a CC-BY 4.0 international license.
Authoring Accessible OER
MERLOT's webpage on authoring accessible OER includes a list of useful tools for creating OER that are accessible for all users.
Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
"A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources."
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Rebus Community, 2017, CC BY 4.0

OER creation and sharing can be as simple as a Google Doc, or as complex as a professional OER textbook hosted by a repository.

TopHat
TopHat is a platform that integrates with Moodle for classroom engagement, but it also offers a catalog of OER textbooks and a platform for faculty to create additional OER.
Lumen Learning
Lumen is a platform with support offered by SUNY OER Services. Faculty can access and share available SUNY OERs, or create their own new OER courses or textbooks.
SUNY Open Textbooks Service
A workflow and platform for publishing and sharing OER materials. Supported by SUNY OER Services.
B.C. Open Textbook Pressbooks Guide
A guide to using the authoring platform Pressbooks.