Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Publishing OER

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The power of OER is in its re-use by others, creating a rich learning environment. You benefit from OER, by being able to access a variety of resources for your various learning and teaching needs. Likewise, it is important for you to publish the OER you create or re-purpose, so that it is available to others (for re-use or re-purposing). You can publish your OER in popular OER repositories, which have been mentioned earlier in this tool-kit.

Publishing text OER

There are many OER repositories for uploading your text resources.

You can also edit the relevant pages in Wikipedia, to add your own contribution if the page is already existing. In case the page does not exist in Wikipedia, you can create the page as well, this is the way this encyclopedia has grown to be the most referred to encyclopedia. This is even more relevant if you are creating an OER in a language other than English. Most languages of the world are not well represented on Wikipedia (see https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias), especially languages spoken in the developing countries. You will need to follow the editing guidelines of Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia is a very popular encyclopedia, if you could regularly contribute your OER to Wikipedia, it would be useful to many others.

You can create your own (blog) site, on Wordpress. If you would like to upload all your OER in a single place to make it available to others, this is a good option. Wordpress is a simple software for you to manage your web content.

Slideshare is another popular web site where you can upload your presentation slides

As mentioned, you should publish in formats that are open and easier to edit. Hence you should prefer an ODT over a PDF format (editable v/s non-editable) for publishing a text document. Again you should prefer an ODT over a DOCX format (open v/s closed)

Publishing image OER

Image OER can similarly be uploaded on Wikimedia commons. Other options include Flickr

Publishing audio and video OER

Audio OER can be uploaded on Soundcloud

Video OER can be uploaded on Youtube. You should ensure to select the Creative Commons license when you upload your video OER, to ensure that it is available freely to others.

Image - COL - Specifying CC license for video uploaded on Youtube
COL - Specifying CC license for video uploaded on Youtube.png
Vimeo is another popular site for uploading OER videos
The table below provides the web spaces available for you to publish your OER.

Note

  1. For all the above cases, you will need to register or create a login id on the site, before you can upload your OER.
  2. You need to ensure that you have not used any non-open (copyright) materials in making your OER.

Popular OER repositories

  1. The large-scale repositories created through the OER movement include
  2. OpenCourseWare,
  3. DiscoverEd,
  4. OER Commons,
  5. Merlot etc
  6. https://www.khanacademy.org/
  7. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
  8. http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

Lists of OER repositories or articles listing OER repositories available

  1. http://libguides.nvcc.edu/c.php?g=361340&p=2439998
  2. https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_educational_video_websites
  3. http://wikieducator.org/Exemplary_Collection_of_Open_eLearning_Content_Repositories
  4. http://libguides.nvcc.edu/c.php?g=361340&p=2440000
  5. http://col-oer.weebly.com/module-4---the-oer-landscape---how-to-find-oer.html
  6. https://www.edutopia.org/open-educational-resources-guide

FOSS applications used in the tool-kit

No Category Name File format More information (Wikipedia) User Manual Tutorials Alternatives on GNU/Linux On Windows operating system On Mobile phone
1 Text OER Freeplane .mm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeplane https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Freemind Freeplane Freeplane Reader
2 Text OER LibreOffice Writer .odt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice_Writer https://help.libreoffice.org/Main_Page https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94682FC0D2ADF410 Apache OpenOffice Writer LibreOffice Writer Open Document Viewer
3 Text OER LibreOffice Impress .odp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice https://www.libreoffice.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR7yVoPn2bs Sozi LibreOffice Impress Open Document Viewer
4 Image OER Screenshot .png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki4SBEkwmM0 Shutter, Lightscreen PicPick, Snagit Screen Capture
5 Image OER Tux Paint .png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Paint http://tuxpaint.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6hKk-0dzKA Kolor Paint, My Paint, GIMP Kolour Paint, MS Paint Paint
6 Image OER GIMP .png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP https://www.gimp.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZr8mBLiY8Y LibreOffice Draw GIMP, LibreOffice Draw Photo Editor, Collage Photo editor
7 Animation OER Tux Paint .png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Paint http://tuxpaint.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6hKk-0dzKA Tupi KtooN
0 Audio OER Audacity .wav/.mp3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor) http://www.audacityteam.org/ http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorials.html Ocean Audio, Kwave Audacity Audio Editor, Ringtone Cutter
9 Video OER recordmydesktop .ogv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RecordMyDesktop http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-nAcMK6m_I Kazam Cam Studio AZ Screen Recorder
10 Video OER OpenShot .osp/.mp4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenShot http://www.openshot.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDbQr0hNVZs Kdenlive OpenShot editor, Windows Movie Maker
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