LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Creating or Modifying OER

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Resources & Tools

Open Education Network (OEN): Community Publishing Sandbox
Includes "Authoring Open Textbooks" guide and "Modifying an Open Textbook: What You Need to Know" guide.
Blended Learning Toolkit
Free open repository of course building templates information, resources, models, and research for blended learning.
panOpen Education
"panOpen Education is a blended content learning platform & curriculum services company that offers complete peer-reviewed course content, customization tools, assessments, analytics, LMS integration, and human support."
TEDEd
Create a lesson by adding questions, discussion topics, and other supplementary materials to TED talk or other educational videos on YouTube.
OER Commons: Open Author
Learn how to create a resource using the Open Author tool.
Editi videos & video settings (YouTube)
Help and support pages for editing videos on YouTube.

Attribution

Many open resources require or prefer you to include attribution. These lines generally include information about the license and link to the original resource or creator.

These tools can help you to generate attributions to include in your OER.

OPEN Attribution Builder
Tool that allows you to fill in information about content and receive an attribution to copy/paste into your project.
Creative Commons (CC) Licenses
Overview of the CC license options and how to choose licenses and apply them to your work. Go to "Downloads" (right column) to save buttons and icons for your attributions.
CC Wiki
Creative Commons wiki community featuring FAQs, best practices for marking content with CC licenses, and more.