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Open Educational Resources at TWU

A resource to learn more about OER, finding OER, evaluating OER, applying for OER mini-grants, and the impact of OER on TWU's community.

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Texas Learn OER 

  • This open educational resources course is an excellent introduction to understanding what OER entails and how to incorporate them in the classroom.
    • Modules include understanding OER, benefits of OER, finding OER, evaluating OER, accessibility, understanding creative commons (CC) licenses, adapting OER, creating OER, and sharing OER. 

OER Creation Toolkit

  • This toolkit is an introduction to using and creating OER for users who are new to open education.
    • Chapters include getting started with OER, copyright, finding OER, teaching with OER, and creating OER 

Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic Librarians and GLAM

  • This book by Creative Commons explains what creative commons (CC) licenses are, copyright law, and how to use CC licenses. 
    • Chapters include explaining the creative commons organization's mission, copyright law basics and limitations, anatomy of a CC license, using CC licenses and CC-licensed works, creative commons for educators, and creative commons for academic librarians

Creative Commons License Chooser

  • This tool will help what is the best license to use when creating a CC license for new OER

Creative Commons License Attribution Tool

  • This tool can create an attribution for OER by automatically generating an attribution after the user fills out the form