Designing OER
Properly Citing Creative Commons Resources
Sample Online Course
Open Attribution Builder - This is a tool to help you build attributions.
ImageCodr.Org - This tool provides generates properly formatted Creative Commons attributions for Flickr images.
Images and Media
PDF Resources
Direct your students to a specific page in your PDF
Instructions on linking to a specific page of your online textbook
Free Split and Merge PDF Programs/Extensions
PDFSAM - Merge, split, rotate, mix, edit, sign PDFs using free, open-source downloadable program
Sejda - Merge, split, rotate, etc. using an online (cloud based) site
PDFMergy - Drag and drop PDF pages in the desired order. Then Merge button to get customized PDF all online (beta version)
Publishing
Authoring Open Textbooks by Melissa Falldin and Karen Lauritsen is a guide for people who want to make open textbooks
Sections of interest include:
Publish Your Own Book
LibreTexts - A multi-institutional collaborative project to develop open textbooks and other OER. Use the "Explore the Libraries" menu to search academic discipline areas. Interested in using LibreTexts? Contact a Librarian.
UH Pressbooks - A tool for content creation of OER to re-use and re-mix into your own version. It exports in formats such as ePub, PDF, MOBi that can be read on mobile devices.
UH OER Repository - Instructions on creating content for the OER Repository and Submitting Content to the OER Repository.
CreateSpace - Tools and services that help you customize your textbook for your students.
Kindle Direct Publishing - Prepare, publish, and customize textbooks and educational content and provide options for your student including color and bound custom books or Kindle books.
Release Forms
Release Form for Student-Created Work with CC Licensing - Template of incorporating a Creative Commons licensing agreement into a student-created-work release form.
Open Pedagogy - Student Agreement to Contribute to Openly Licensed Project
Other Resources
UDL and Accessibility - Learn why universal design for learning is an important framework to consider for your students.