On this page, you will find a list of reading resources that can help you engage with specific aspects of working with Open Educational Resources (OER). This includes information on how to work with Creative Commons materials, the skills needed to effectively engage with OER, and open textbooks on how to adapt or create an accessible open textbook (alone or with students). The resources here can likely provide answers to any question you may have. As these sources are part of the basis for the guidelines on the Library Guide, some information presented here may have been explained elsewhere already in less detail.

If you would like to discuss these resources and their application to your specific situation, please send the OER support team an email at: oer-library@rug.nl.

Open Educational Resources basics

• The OER Starter Kit by Abbey K. Elder - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• OER Youtube playlist by Abbey K. Elder - videos licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• UNESCO's trainer guide v1.1 Competency framework open educational resources - licensed under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 International License
• Defining the "Open" in Open Content and Open Educational Resources by David Wiley - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Open Education Primer by the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• OER Mythbusting by the OER policy for Europe project - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License

General guides to working with Creative Commons licenses/OER in the educational context

• Guide to Creative Commons for Scholarly Publications and Educational Resources by Pascal Braak, Hans de Jonge, Giulia Trentacosti, Irene Verhagen, Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Best practices in designing courses with open educational resources by Olena Zhadko & Susan Ko - eBook made available through the University of Groningen Library

Guides for adapting an open textbook

• BCcampus Open Education's Adaptation Guide by Lauri M. Aesoph, edited by Corinne Litchfield - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Modifying an Open Textbook: What You Need to Know by the Open Education Network / Cheryl Cuillier, Amy Hofer, Annie Johnson, Kathleen Labadorf, Peter Potter, Richard Saunders & Anita Walz, edited Karen Lauritsen - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License

Guides for creating an open textbook/OER

• 80 Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives by the Open Education Database
• Authoring Open Textbooks by The Open Education Network / Melissa Falldin & Karen Lauritsen - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• BCcampus Open Education's Self-Publishing Guide by Lauri M. Aesoph, edited by Josie Gray - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far) by Apurva Ashok, Zoe Wake Hyde & Katlin Schilling, edited by David Szanto - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Guide to Developing Open Textbooks by Andrew Moore & Neil Butcher - licensed under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 International License
• UGP Pressbooks Demo by Pieter van der Veen - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License

Guides regarding best practices for making OER accessible

• Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition by Amanda Coolidge, Sue Doner, Tara Robertson & Josie Gray, edited by Lauri Aesoph & Josie Gray - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Making Accessible OER by Affordable Learning Georgia/University System of Georgia - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Course Materials by OpenStax/Rice University - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Create accessible PDFs by Microsoft - guideline on how to use the accessibility tool in Office
• Web Accessibility Evaluation (WAVE) Tool by WebAIM/Utah State University - free tool to check how website accessibility

Open pedagogy

• Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy - Wiley, D., & Hilton III, J. L. (2018). Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v19i4.3601
• Six perspectives on Open Pedagogy by Year of Open - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Open Pedagogy Notebook by Rajiv Jhangiani, Robin DeRosa & Steel Wagstaff - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap by Christina Riehman-Murphy & Bryan McGeary - licensed under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 International License
• A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students by the Rebus community, edited by Elizabeth Mays - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library, and Student Collaborations by Kimberly Davies Hoffman & Alexis Clifton - CC-BY 4.0 International License

Creative Commons licenses

• About CC licenses by Creative Commons - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• CC license chooser by Creative Commons - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• CC license compatibility by CC Wiki - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Best practices for attribution by CC wiki - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License
• Open Attribution Builder by Open Washington - licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License