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OER | Open Educational Resources

Info hub with resources & support for teaching + learning with affordable course content and openly licensed, modifiable materials.

Tools & Resources

Tools & Resources

  • Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources — tool for educators, librarians, and authors to evaluate common professional scenarios in which fair use can enable them to incorporate inserts, including those protected by copyright, to create OER
  • Press Books — online content and courseware development; create and published eBooks; print via Lulu, Kindle Direct Publishing, IngramSpark, Kobo, Nook, etc. 
  • GitBooks — create documentation for teaching in multiple formats
  • Bookdown — open-source R package that allows you to write books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown; supports a wide range of programming languages, as well as graphics and interactive applications; export in multiple formats: PDF, LaTeX, HTML, EPUB, and Word
  • Jupyter Notebook — an open source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and text; supports over 40 programming languages and can be shared through GitHub or the Jupyter Notebook Viewer.
  • OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit ⇒ aims to help book authors to better understand open access book publishing and to increase trust in open access books
  • Open Author ⇒ helps you build and publish Open Educational Resources