32 Resources for OER Curation and Creation
Naomi Salmon
BC Open Education Self-Publishing Guide
The BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide is a reference for individuals or groups wanting to write and self-publish an open textbook. This guide provides details on the preparation, planning, writing, publication, and maintenance of an open textbook.
BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit
The Accessibility Toolkit is a collaboration between BCcampus and CAPER-BC. The goal of the Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the resources needed so that each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, teaching assistant, etc. has the opportunity to create a truly open and accessible textbook. An open textbook that is free and accessible for all students.The Accessibility Toolkit has also been translated into French. http://opentextbc.ca/troussedoutildaccessibilite
A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
The Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students (ed. Elizabeth Mays) was collaboratively created and published by The Rebus Community for Open Textbook Creation. Two of the contributors to this text, Andrea Andrzejewski and Steel Wagstaff, are members of the UW-Madison community!
BC Open Education Adaptation Guide
The BCcampus Open Education Adaptation Guide is a practical guide about how to customize — or adapt — an open textbook so that it better fits your needs in the classroom and elsewhere. This guide defines the term adaptation and discusses reasons for revising a book, why this is possible with an open textbook, and the challenges involved.
BC Open Education Adoption Guide
The BCcampus Open Education Adoption Guide provides basic guidance on choosing an open text or resource for instructional use.
BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Guide
The BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Guide is an in-progress (open creation) this lists a broad range of open educational resources organized by discipline.
BCcampus Open Education Print-on-Demand Guide
The BCcampus Open Education Print-on-Demand Guide is a practical manual on the what, why, and how of creating your own hard copy textbook of any openly licensed textbook found in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection. However, these same steps can be used to create a print-on-demand textbook from other collections providing you have access to the correct file types. This guide will continue to be updated as new information, practices and processes are developed.
Faculty OER Toolkit
The Faculty OER Toolkit is an information resource about and guide to adapting and adopting Open Educational Resources. Included are definitions and examples, information about Creative Commons licensing, and tips on how to adapt and/or adopt OER for classroom use.
B.C. Open Textbook OER Student Toolkit: An Advocacy Guide for Student Leaders
The B.C. Open Textbook OER Student Toolkit is an in-progress resource intended to provide students with information about OER adoption and support.
Pressbooks Support
UW-Madison’s Pressbooks 101 Guide
Pressbooks 101 teaches the basics of getting started with Pressbooks. Many of the lessons here have grown out of topics covered at our monthly Pressbooks users group meetings.
BCcampus Pressbooks Guide
This BC Campus Pressbooks Guide was created to provide information specific to the creation and adaptation of open textbooks and other open educational resources (OER) using the authoring platform, Pressbooks. It is intended to act as an adjunct to the very comprehensive Pressbooks Userguide. Specifically, this guide addresses the issues faced by authors of open textbooks, most of whom are using versions of Pressbooks for which the PressBooks Textbook plugin has been installed.
Pressbooks for EDU Guide
The Pressbooks EDU Guide was created by the Pressbooks team and details how to use the many features that are specific to academic publishing. It has excellent walkthroughs.
The Pressbooks Userguide
The Pressbooks Userguide is a resource intended for general Pressbooks use cases. It is well-maintained and comprehensive.
