LibGuides: Open Educational Resources Guide: Creating OER

Creating your own OER

Adopting existing OER is great, but what if there isn't anything out there that's quite right for your needs? If you have an interest in creating your own OER, this page has some resources to help get you started.

Helpful how-to materials

Modifying an open textbook
This book describes how to make changes to an open textbook to customize it to your needs. It covers the most commonly used formats such as PDF and epub.
Accessibility Toolkit
This book explains how to adapt an OER to be accessible to all audiences.
Creating open educational resources
This is an actual course designed to walk faculty through the process of creating resources. It is free to take and all online.
Creating and Modifying OER
This module goes over some of the important things to know for creating or modifying OER.
Creating, Using and Sharing Open Educational Resources
This handy guide describes some of the things authors need to consider when creating OER, and has numerous links to further resources.

Sites for Creating or Modifying OER

OER Commons
This site has tools for building OER content right on the website, freely available to use.
Pressbooks
This site for creating ebooks offers free and low cost options.
PubPub
This site has different levels of service, with a free level that allows for creation of fully usable documents and textbooks.
OpenStax CNX
OpenStax offers this authoring site for creating OER materials.
WikiEducator
This site has resources for creating OER.
Merlot Content Builder
Merlot's site has a content builder section to help you create OER.