Curation, Adaption, and Authoring

There are many guides and tools to help you adapt, create, curate, and author resources. Below are some useful resources to help with that process.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Materials
A Guide for Authors, Adapters & Adopters of
Openly Licensed Teaching and Learning
Materials
Course Organization Spreadsheet
Use this spreadsheet to help organize your course and track your resources.
ASCCC OERI: OER Basics
This introductory course on OER has information and workshops about OER curation.

Publication Platforms

Whether you are curating by bringing various resources together, adapting and editing, or creating a brand new resource, you will want to have a quality platform to share OER with students. Below are some platforms that have been widely used with OER. Don't know where to start? Try viewing one of the publishing or platform specific webinars from the ASCCC OERI series.

ASCCC OERI Platform Webinars
Look under "Archived Webinars" to find "How-to" webinars on LibreTexts, OER Commons, and Pressbooks. There are also "In-Depth" webinars for each of these platforms.
LibreTexts
Explore a LibreTexts library to register and start creating your own text.
Pressbooks
There are several options and price ranges for authors.
OER Commons
Use Open Author to create a variety of resources.

Creating OER and Combining Licenses

When you combine OER resources you need to make sure that the licenses work together. Creative Commons has more information about license compatibility, or you can check out this handy chart.