Adapting or Creating OER
Many instructors may find that existing resources (both commercial or open) don't entirely fit their course needs. As openly licensed materials, instructors can modify or adapt materials to their specific needs. Some instructors may find they're best suited to develop their own materials, which they can openly license and share for others to use as well.
Tools for Creating OER
- Open Learning Initiative: The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a flagship project of The Simon Initiative. It provides textbook-replacement courseware built upon principles gleaned from decades of research in three CMU’s strengths: cognitive science, computer engineering and human-computer interaction. OLI provides materials that can be used in face-to-face, online, or hybrid classes. It’s a platform for delivering high-quality materials with the ability to facilitate groundbreaking research — in technology enhanced learning, data science, learning behavior and more.
- OER Commons Open Author: Open Author helps you build Open Educational Resources, lesson plans, and courses to share openly on the OER Commons platform.
- Pressbooks: Pressbooks is a simple book formatting software.
- GitBook: Created by GitHub, this open source tool allows you to create a book hosted on the GitHub platform. You can create your book in Markdown, add images and embed content from the Internet.
- Jupyter Notebook: Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.
