Research Guides: OER for Geography: Create OER

Accessibility

All resources at Clark College need to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standards. Basic things to look for or create are alt-text for images, headers for text, and descriptive audio or a media alternative for videos.

Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition
"Create a truly open textbook—one that is free and accessible for all students." Particularly check out Appendix A: Checklist for Accessibility. From BCcampus, Camosun College, and CAPER-BC.
Accessibility Toolkit for OER
By CUNY Accessibility Librarian Amy Wolfe, "this guide was created to assist CUNY Librarians, faculty, staff & OER developers create accessible content and accessible Open Educational Resources (OER). On this guide you will find information on creating accessible content, platforms, evaluating your OER site, and VPATs."

Guides

The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far)
By Apurva Ashok and Zoe Wake Hyde. "Representing two years of collaboration, innumerable conversations and exchanges, and a wide range of collective knowledge and experience, the Guide is a book-in-progress and will evolve and grow over time."
Authoring Open Textbooks
By Melissa Falldin and Karen Lauritsen. "This guide is for faculty authors, librarians, project managers and others who are involved in the production of open textbooks in higher education and K-12. Content includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources and an overview of useful tools."
BCcampus Self-Publishing Guide
By Lauri Aesoph, BCcampus. This book is "a reference for individuals or groups wanting to write and self-publish an open textbook.This guide provides details on the preparation, planning, writing, publication, and maintenance of an open textbook."
A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
Ed. by Elizabeth Mays. "Book Description: A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources. This is a first edition, compiled by Rebus Community, and we welcome feedback and ideas to expand the text."

Attribution

Many Creative Commons license require proper attributions when you use, re-use, and revise or remix their work. Learn more about attribution with the resources below, and contact your librarian liaison or the OER Steering Committee (email: oercommittee@clark.edu) with any questions.

Best practices for attribution
"You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution. Here are some good (and not so good) examples of attribution."
Marking your work with a CC license
"You have chosen a CC license for your work. Now how do you go about letting the world know? Here are some examples of how to mark your work with the CC license."
Open Attribution Builder from Open Washington
"This is a tool to help you build attributions. Click the About box to learn more. As you fill out the form, the app automatically generates the attribution for you."

Tools

Open Author Tool
"Open Author helps you build Open Educational Resources, lesson plans, and courses (on your own, or with others) — and then publish them, to the benefit of educators and learners everywhere."
H5P
"Create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content in your browser"
Hypothesis
Free web annotation tool.

Adapting & Modifying OER

Modifying an Open Textbook: What You Need to Know
"Book Description: This is a five-step guide for faculty, and those who support faculty, who want to modify an open textbook. Step-by-step instructions for importing and editing common open textbook file and platform types are included."
Adaptation Guide
By Lauri M. Aesoph, "The Adaptation Guide is a practical reference about how to customize — or adapt — an open textbook so that it better fits your needs in the classroom and elsewhere. This guide defines the term adaptation and discusses reasons for revising a book, why this is possible with an open textbook, and the challenges involved."

OER for Geography: Create OER

Creating OER overview

Accessibility

Guides

Attribution

Tools

Adapting & Modifying OER