LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Create

Creating your own OERs

The library can assist you in:

Identifying Open Educational Resources that are reliable and appropriate for your course
Determining the copyright or licensing status of materials you wish to use
Identifying resources for creating your own OER
Finding Creative Commons and Open Access images for your own OER
Identifying platforms to host your OER

For assistance with OERs, contact the Gumberg Library or Arthur Harper (Opens New Outlook Email), Research and Instructional Design Librarian.

Creating OER and Combining Licenses

Resources to Create OERs

80 Tools for OER Authoring (Opens New Window)
From the Open Education Database
iBooks Author (Opens New Window)
Allows authors to create dynamic textbooks
OER Commons Authoring (Opens New Window)
From the site: "Create Open Educational Resources (on your own, or with others) with our publishing tools. Our authoring tools help you build OER, lesson plans, and courses—and then publish them, to the benefit of educators and learners everywhere. "
Rebus Community (Opens New Window)
"Rebus Community is the open education and professional development arm of The Rebus Foundation, a global non-proﬁt and Canadian registered charity working to make knowledge freely available in the pursuit of equity, understanding, and the common good. With our work, Rebus Community seeks to build a movement of leaders leveraging OER to transform higher education. Rebus’ focus on collaboration and equity within the higher education community is in service of developing an inclusive field that is responsive to diverse educators and learners."

Share Your Data in the Duquesne Scholarship Collection

The Duquesne Scholarship Collection can collect any type of file including datasets, images, and other materials that supplement your published research. Gumberg Library is committed to maintaining the Duquesne Scholarship Collection as a as a reliable and responsible place to collect your data. Examples of materials that have been deposited in the past include the following:

If you wish to explore making your data publicly available through the Duquesne Scholarship Collection, contact your Library Liaison. https://guides.library.duq.edu/liaisons