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Designing OER

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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.

Sample of a course that has been openly licensed to shareENG 100 OER Online Course (Susan Wood) & Instructor Guide

Images and Media

Open Images [Leeward CC Library LibGuide]

Screen capture of dig cc mixer instrumental music interface

Dig CC Mixter offers thousands of songs that are Creative Commons licensed.

Pixabay home screen with videos pulldown menu circled

Pixabay Videos - a great source of public domain videos you can download for free. To find public domain videos on Pixabay just select the "video" option from the menu on the homepage. The videos that you find through Pixabay can be downloaded as MP4 files in standard or high resolution.

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