Open Educational Resources (OER): Creating OER

• Authoring Open Textbooks -- This is an Open Education Network textbook written by Melissa Falldin and Karen Lauritsen to help authors and others producing open textbooks.
• BCCampus Create Open Textbooks -- This Canadian resource provides information and tools to create your own textbook.
• MERLOT: Content Builder -- A free webpage and website development tool. Requires registering and logging in as a MERLOT member to create content. Registration is free and easy.
• OER Commons: Open Author -- Enables you to build and share high-quality OER; requires creating an account.
• Rebus Community -- Supported by the Rebus Foundation of Canada, this community provides professional development and tools to help people create open textbooks, including A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students and the Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far) along with a video series.
• Wikibooks -- Enables you to contribute to an existing Wikibook or start a new Wikibook

Whether you are re-mixing other OER to create your own OER or just assigning OER for a class, you should properly credit the original OER.  All materials released under Creative Commons (CC) licenses require attribution. If something is labeled CC0, it is public domain, not under a CC license, and does not require attribution.

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All CC attributions should include the following basic information: 

• Title
• Author
• Source (usually the URL where the material resides)
• Creative Commons (CC) license (including the link back to CC documentation page if possible)

For example, this guide should be cited as follows: "Open Educational Resources (OER)" by Salisbury University Libraries, licensed under CC BY 2.0

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For more information, visit Best practices for attribution (Creative Commons).

• Creative Commons License Selector -- A tool that allows you to receive an already formatted HTML code. Simply answer a few questions and fill in the fields you need.
• Creative Commons Public Domain Tools -- Enable creators and copyright owners to dedicate their works to the public domain.
• Marking your work with a CC license -- Explains how to mark your work with a CC license and how to use the Creative Commons License Chooser

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For a detailed legal overview of the Creative Commons licenses, see Creative Commons Licenses Legal Pitfalls: Incompatibilities and Solutions.

• Canvas Commons -- Within MyClasses, SU faculty can contribute materials to the Canvas Commons repository for use by other SU faculty or other Canvas institutions. For more information, please contact Instructional Design & Delivery.
• OpenDOAR: The Directory of Open Access Repositories -- An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories
• MERLOT - Add to Collection -- Allows users to contribute materials to MERLOT collections; requires login and free membership.
• OER Commons -- Allows users to contribute materials to its repository