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OERs: Open Educational Resources: Create

This guide introduces faculty to the ideas, purposes, resources and locations for using OERs for required texts, readings, and other course materials.

Using Videos

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Open Journals

Link to Directory of Open Access Journals

"The most comprehensive searchable index of free scientific and scholarly content in full-text formats."  (Choice Reviews)

Other open access collections:

Getting Started

Affordable Learning Georgia Tutorial: Creating and Modifying Open Educational Resources - this is an excellent tutorial on how to create your own OER and adapt others' OER to your course.

Link to Affordable Learning Georgia

Government Publications

Everything published by the Federal government is free of any copyright restrictions.  The research, reports and websites can be useful resources for classes when creating your own course material.

Link to USA.gov

  1. A great starting place to search is USA.gov.
     
  2. Try to search a specific agency's website.  A-Z List of Federal Agencies. Many times these materials are not retrieved with simple Google searches.   Here are some examples of US Federal Databases. 

Homeland Security Digital Library
The Homeland Security Digital Library is a collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Topics include maritime, unmanned aerial systems, terrorism, epidemics and many more. 

SciTech Connect
SciTech Connect is a collection of science, technology, and engineering research information from the U.S. Department of Energy.

 

Tools for Creating Content

Tools for Remixing Content

OER and Accessibility

Just like traditional textbooks, open educational materials must be accessible to all students.  Below are resources that help with accessibility standards for OER.