Open Textbooks, OER, & Alternative Resources for APSU Faculty Members: Create OER for Your Course

BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide is a reference for individuals or groups wanting to write and self-publish an open textbook. This guide provides details on the preparation, planning, writing, publication, and maintenance of an open textbook.

Produced (August 2016) by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and released as CC BY SA. 66 page guide presenting technical advice for textbook development in a variety of platforms and formats.

This guide is for faculty authors, librarians, project managers and others who are involved in the production of open textbooks in higher education and K-12. Content includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources and an overview of useful tools.

The goal of the Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the resources needed so that each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, teaching assistant, etc. has the opportunity to create a truly open and accessible textbook. An open textbook that is free and accessible for all students.

Free tool for creating online "books" or project documentation that can be used to create OER. It gives individuals 10 public and private spaces, custom domains and GitHub Sync at no cost.

Official GitBook documentation

a GitBook example designed to help you get started creating your own educational GitBooks for your courses

You can use Open Author to create resources with both instructor and student facing views. This means that instructors can view the resource that is customized for instruction, and students can view the resource that is customized for their learning needs. See the guide to get started.

Easily create professional print and ebook editions of your book. Try out for free and publish online or in EPUB format at a small cost of $20.

The Pressbooks EDU Guide details how to use the many Pressbooks features that are specific to academic publishing

Guide provided by the Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning