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'''Can we think of catchy titles for the chapters? "OER with textual diversity"'''

'''Can we think of catchy titles for the chapters? "OER with textual diversity"'''

Text is an important format of resource creation and often OER have begun with digitizing of text materials - textbooks, papers, etc.  While the digital allows creation multiple kinds of resources, text holds an important position in terms of content creation.  Textual OER includes text documents, web pages, PDF documents, spreadsheets and other resources which are primarily text based.  Currently a large amount of textual OER is created using proprietary formats and made available in PDF formats. The PDF formats do not allow editing and limit any re-purposing.  In addition, in the absence of licensed proprietary applications, these OER cannot be reused or modified. In this chapter of the toolkit, we will look at how to access different textual OER as well as create and repurpose textual using different free and open source tools.  

Text is an important format of resource creation and often OER have begun with digitizing of text materials - textbooks, papers, etc.  While the digital allows creation multiple kinds of resources, text holds an important position in terms of content creation.  Textual OER includes text documents, web pages, PDF documents, spreadsheets and other resources which are primarily text based.  Currently a large amount of textual OER is created using proprietary formats and made available in PDF formats. The PDF formats do not allow editing and limit any re-purposing.  In addition, in the absence of licensed proprietary applications, these OER cannot be reused or modified. Using free and open source tools to create textual OER can allow more and more users to create content; this can also expand the universe of OER creation to languages other than English.    

A more important reason to explore tools for textual resource creation is in 

In this chapter of the toolkit, we will look at how to access different textual OER as well as create and repurpose textual using different free and open source tools.     

=== Objectives ===

=== Objectives ===

In this chapter, you will learn how to create and re-purpose text OER. You will learn

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to :

# about popular repositories for accessing text OER

# about popular repositories for accessing text OER

# to access, create and re-purpose concept maps using concept map editor (''Freeplane'')

# to access, create and re-purpose concept maps using concept map editor (''Freeplane'')