Open Educational Resources (OER)

• OER Starter Kit Workbook - This resource includes worksheets attached to each chapter to help instructors find, use, or create open educational resources (OER). The worksheets are provided as Google Docs for hands-on editing.
• Tutorial: Creating and Modifying Open Educational Resources

  This is an excellent tutorial on how to create your own OER and adapt others' OER to your course.

• Six Steps of Modifying an Open Textbook - Adapting & Adopting, BC Campus.

• Pressbooks

• OpenStax CNX

• Open Author

• Mathbook XML

• Rebus

• H2O from Harvard Law 

• LibGuides - LibGuides (like this one) can be used to compile content for your course. This link goes to a custom LibGuide created for COM 120: Public Discourse. Ask a librarian to help you create your own!

• OER Commons Module Builder

• 20 Million Minds Mix

• OERca

• Open Attribution Builder

Just like traditional textbooks, open educational materials must be accessible to all students.  Below are resources that help with accessibility standards for OER.

• BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit

• National Center on Accessible Educational Materials

• floe Inclusive Learning Design Handbook

• Open Education Consortium - Addressing Accessibility Issues

• Merlot II: OER and Accessibility