LibGuides: Affordable Course Materials and Open Educational Resources (OER): Creating and Publishing

Tools for Remixing Content

Tools for remixing content

H2O from Harvard Law
Create custom playlists of course readings and other material.
LibGuides
LibGuides (like this one) can be used to compile content for your course. This link goes to a custom libguide created for FYS Slow Food. Ask a librarian to help you create your own!
OER Commons Module Builder
The Module Builder allows authors to create both student and instructor facing content views. Authors are encouraged to include overviews, pedagogical supporting text, and instructions.
OERca
Open source software from the University of Michigan designed to help instructors compile and create course materials.
Open Textbook Library
Open Textbook Network allows for modifying of their open textbooks using the Pressbooks platform.
Lumen Learning
Institutional subscription required for access to authoring platform and hosting of OER content
Open Attribution Builder
A citation tool for open content.

Tools for Printing Content

Why not print your own textbook! The Public Library of Cincinnati has a book printing machine that can produce an inexpensive book in just a few minutes.

Exhibit - Xavier's Institutional Repository

Getting Started

Affordable Learning Georgia Tutorial: Creating and Modifying Open Educational Resources - this is an excellent tutorial on how to create your own OER and adapt others' OER to your course.

Creative Commons Search

Search the web with Creative Commons filtered search engine to find web sites, articles, videos, images, and other resources licensed for sharing.

Xavier Teaching With Technology

Xavier Teaching With Technology
Teaching with Technology is an evolving project meant to gather together different technologies used for teaching and learning.

The tools that are presented in this site are what our teams have researched and found to be the most useful tools for each category and use case that is listed. Many of the tools presented in this site are free and are represented with the free icon next to the tool name. This site is not intended to list all of the available tools out there on the web, only a few of the most useful tools for each use case that we have listed

Tools for Creating Content

College Libraries Ontario and OCLS have launched an OER Toolkit
The OER Toolkit aims to improve equitable access to open learning resources and services to college students by providing a province-wide academic support platform for faculty to use while designing courses and assignments. The Toolkit is a one-stop guide to open educational resources, providing faculty and library staff with tools and information to understand, engage with, create, and sustain OER in their work and practice.

Government Publications

Everything published by the Federal government is free of any copyright restrictions. The research, reports and websites can be useful resources for classes when creating your own course material.

A great starting place to search is USA.gov.
Try to search a specific agency's website. A-Z List of Federal Agencies. Many times these materials are not retrieved with simple Google searches. Here are some examples of US Federal Databases.

The Homeland Security Digital Library is a collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Topics include maritime, unmanned aerial systems, terrorism, epidemics and many more.

SciTech Connect is a collection of science, technology, and engineering research information from the U.S. Department of Energy.