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Open Educational Resources: 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.

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