Open Textbooks, OER & Other Open or Free Resources for Faculty

Pressbooks is an online ebook platform with a single interface for authoring, adding, editing, remixing, and distributing OER. It has an easy to read online interface, and provides each ebook in a variety of formats to meet any student need, with PDF, ePUB, MOBI, and Webbook.

Helpful resources for adapting an existing open textbook.

Pub101 is a free, information orientation to open textbook publishing. It is a prerequisite for participating in the OEN Publishing Cooperative.

The 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. Copyright, open-copyright licences, and the differences between citation and attribution are discussed as well as the importance of copy editing and proofreading. Checklists and templates are also provided.

A guide for authors, adapters & adopters of Openly Licensed Teaching and Learning Materials

Free editing and publishing tool for OER authors. From OER Commons.

"In the context of OER, localization refers to the process of taking educational resources developed for one context and adapting them for other contexts. These contexts can, for example, be geographical, pedagogical, political, or technical. The practice of localization encompasses more than the translation of materials into a local language or swapping a photo to reflect a culture. Localization is at the heart of the OER process—it exemplifies diversity, openness, and reusability."

Google Sites has a little more functionality than Talon does in formatting a site to look the way you want it to. It also has a function to make the site private so that only your students can access it. It doesn't however allow each individual student to access personal information such as grades. The automatic Table of Contents function would be a nice way to organize lots of chunks of information you collected from different sources.

This site helps you organize learning objectives, resources and assignments for your course. Especially helpful for blended courses.