LibGuides: Open Education Resources (OER): Creating OER

Creation Methods

This ebook outlines some best practices for creating OER content:

Creating an open textbook with students:

This work was adapted from Production of OER by Billy Meinke and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Outreach College, licensed under a CC BY 4.0. International license.

LibreOffice
Draw lets you produce anything from a quick sketch to a complex plan, and gives you the means to communicate with graphics and diagrams. With a maximum page size of 300cm by 300cm, Draw is a an excellent package for producing technical drawings, brochures, posters and many other documents. Draw lets you manipulate graphical objects, group them, crop them, use objects in 3D and much more.
Inkscape
Inkscape is a Free and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS. It offers a rich set of features and is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagramming and flowcharting. It uses vector graphics to allow for sharp printouts and renderings at unlimited resolution and is not bound to a fixed number of pixels like raster graphics. Inkscape uses the standardized SVG file format as its main format, which is supported by many other applications including web browsers.
OER Commons: Open Author
Open Author helps you build and publish Open Educational Resources for you and for the benefit of educators and learners everywhere.
Manifold
Manifold works with the files you’ve already got, converting your existing content into beautiful, responsive online texts that can be annotated and augmented with rich media.