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Guidance for creating or adapting OER at Charles Sturt, centred on Pressbooks but applicable to other formats.

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This guide is for anyone at Charles Sturt creating or adapting Open Educational Resources (OER). It’s particularly relevant if you’re developing open texts on the Library’s Pressbooks platform, but much of the guidance also applies to other OER formats.

OER can take many forms; they can include lecture notes, images, videos, quizzes as well as books and much more. For more information, or an overview of OER, please refer to the Open Educational Resources Guide.

This guide covers six stages of publishing books:

  1. Getting started 
  2. Plan
  3. Develop and design
  4. Review
  5. Publish and share
  6. Post-publication

This resource is based on the CAUL OER Collective Publishing Workflow (CC BY 4.0).

OER creation workflow

OER Creation Workflow

Background: This workflow describes the typical process followed in the development of Open Educational Resources (OER) at Charles Sturt.

1. Get Started

  • Identify your team
  • Set goals, scope and expectations
  • Find Open texts to use or adapt

2. Plan

  • Plan your project
  • Understand copyright requirements
  • Select Creative Commons Licence

3. Develop and Design

  • Develop book structure
  • Write, revise and curate content
  • Apply accessibility standards

4. Review

  • Copyedit and proofread
  • Conduct peer review using rubric
  • Forward to the Library for final QA

5. Publish and Share

  • Add identifiers (ISBN and DOI)
  • Hit Publish!
  • Promote your OER

6. Post Publication

  • Gather feedback
  • Identify improvements
  • Measure success

Adapted from The CAUL OER Collective Publishing Workflow by Council of Australian University Librarians, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Acknowledgement

Sections of content included in this guide has been adapted from  Open Educational Resources Collective Publishing Workflow - LibGuides at CAUL - Council of Australian University Librarians licensed under CC BY 4.0

Other parts of this content have been based on A Production Workflow for OER Projects by Abbey Elder, licences under a CC BY 4.0 licence

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