Open Educational Resources - OER

Free Tools

• MERLOT’s Content Builder

  Access templates for creating tailored websites with a variety of designs, including e-portfolio structures, lesson plans, online courses, and others.
• OpenAuthor

  Bring in and adapt your own resources, as well as resources from its affiliated OER Commons library, to create new or remixed OER.
• OpenStax Hub

  Adapt, remix, and localize OpenStax textbooks.
• OpenStax Tech Scout

  Tool that will help you find ed tech products that partner with OpenStax. Includes several filters as well as product cost.
• Rebus Open Textbook Community

  Develop open textbooks with a collaborative community of creators and authors.
• WikiBooks

  Access wiki-based adaptable open textbooks and create new wiki textbooks.
• TED-Ed Content Builder Tool

  Add TED videos to a lesson builder template, and supplement the video with questions and additional content.

   

Paid Tools

• LibGuides

  Access file creation and file hosting tools for library staff through this fee-based platform that it is available through every Ontario College library.
• PressBooks

  Publish open textbooks in multiple formats in this content management system that uses WordPress.
• SoftChalk Cloud

  Use the SoftChalk desktop platform to create your OER, and choose to make it open and public in the SoftChalk Repository (free trial available).