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Curated collection of free and open teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

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Content is reusable, designed to encourage the sharing and reuse of educational content

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Evaluated, approved textbooks

Textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, and more from the colleges and universities using BePress

More information at http://libguides.wustl.edu/hathitrust

from Textbook Affordability Project, University of South Florida

Tips and links compiled by Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN); see especially Open Textbook Search

Included one Oregon specific tool but otherwise useful for all; from OpenOregon

24 page report from Student PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups)

2015 book from OECD Publishing

Not comprehensive but useful; compiled by SPARC Open

Open-access, self-paced online "Community Course" from SUNY that has been built to demonstrate how to find, adapt, and develop OERs step-by-step

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.

guide 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.

from Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL); part of a series of freely available modules hosted at Univ. of Texas Libraries

2 hour webcast from March 2017; 1st hour is Find and Share; 2nd hour is Create and Adapt; includes links to handouts, etc. 2 of the platforms are Virginia Tech specific; others are available to all.

Reference for individuals or groups wanting to write and self-publish an open textbook; 2018 by Lauri Aesoph; CC-BY

6-module course from Lumen Learning; provides an introduction to the laws that influence the use, re-use, and distribution of course content. Activities include finding openly licensed content for use in a class and publishing openly licensed works created by faculty. At the end of the course, students will have openly licensed content that will be ready for use in a course. CC-BY-SA