LibGuides UFV: Open Educational Resources: Creating OER

Create, Adapt, and Customise OER

Finding OERs is one thing, adapting them to fit your needs is another. Here are some tools and technological platforms that will allow you to create custom materials for your specific uses.

Pressbooks

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User Guides

Pressbooks is a book production software and content management system that allows you to write your own book or import your manuscript, and export into multiple formats for publishing, including HTML, Kindle MOBI, EPUB, PDF, and XML.

Pressbooks User Guide
BCcampus Pressbooks Guide
This guide serves as a supplement to the Pressbooks Guide, and includes information and instructions specific to BC and Yukon post-secondary faculty and staff.
Create in Pressbooks (KPU videos)
Kwantlen Polytechnic University has created a series of videos on using Pressbooks

Other Tools and Platforms

Rebus Community
Initiative providing technical and information support for collaborative open publishing projects

Guides

Adaptation Guide: A reference to adapting or revising an open textbook The Adaptation Guide is a practical reference about how to customize — or adapt — an open textbook so that it better fits your needs in the classroom and elsewhere. This guide defines the term adaptation and discusses reasons for revising a book, why this is possible with an open textbook, and the challenges involved. By Lauri Aesoph, BCcampus.

See more guides listed under the Research & Readings tab:

Adapting and Creating OER