Funding for designing OER
Funding for designing OER
- VIVA Open GrantsThe goal of the VIVA Open Grants is to make textbook and course materials free to students by empowering faculty with the resources and time they need to redesign their curricula using open, library, or no cost resources.
- Open Textbook Pilot Grant ProgramFirst funded by Congress in the bipartisan fiscal year 2018 government spending bill, the Open Textbook Pilot is a U.S. federal grant program that supports projects at institutions of higher education that create or expand the use of open textbooks to achieve savings for students.
Profile
JMU Libraries Publishing Values
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Providing open, inclusive, and equitable access to knowledge and opportunities for creation
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Creating more representative and open collections
JMU Libraries shares the Library Publishing Coalition's vision for a scholarly publishing landscape that is open, inclusive, and sustainable.
Publishing @ JMU
The Scholarly Communications Strategies team can help with your publishing projects:
- Make more confident decisions about copyright and fair use and understand and retain your rights as an author
- Use open licenses to share your work
- Evaluate traditional and open access publishing opportunities
- Avoid publishing scams
- Participate in Scholarly Commons, a publishing platform for JMU’s academic and research communities
Pressbooks
Create open textbooks! JMU faculty who want to create or customize open textbooks or other course content can use JMU Libraries Pressbooks, an easy-to-use tool for creating online books and interactive course materials. JMU Libraries offers the “EDU version” of Pressbooks, which includes features that support teaching and learning.
Publishing at JMU (Pub 101):
JMU Libraries offers an asynchronous aid for faculty authors who are creating open textbooks. This Canvas resource provides a foundation in open textbook publishing and you can go through the modules in order or pop into specific sections as questions arise. Modules include:
- Introduction, or what we mean when we say “publishing” at JMU
- Structure, includes an overview of textbook elements and intellectual property
- Project Management, covers coordinating, scheduling, and vetting
- Editing, examples of style guides and tools
- Design, Production, and Marketing
- Pressbooks, expands on specific features and examples
Click here to self-enroll or contact Liz Thompson (thomp3ea@jmu.edu) to be added to Pub 101.
Resources for Creating & Sharing OER
Other Resources:
- Open at the MarginsThis book represents a starting point towards curating and centering marginal voices and non-dominant epistemic stances in open education. It includes the work of 43 diverse authors whose perspectives challenge the dominant hegemony.
- OER Accessibility ToolkitThe goal of the OER Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the needed resources to each content creator, instructor, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open and accessible educational resource for all students.
- Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibilityThe dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility are general guidelines, best design practices. Currently, there are six different posters in the series that cater to users from these areas: low vision, D/deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.
- WordToEPUBThis incredibly user-friendly tool enables anyone with a structured Microsoft Word document to easily create an accessible and highly flexible publication in the EPUB 3 format. This can be read on any device and used with a variety of assistive technologies which people with disabilities around the world rely upon throughout their education, work and leisure.
- Rebus CommunityThe Rebus Community is a non-profit organization developing a new, collaborative process for publishing open textbooks, and associated content.
- OEN Publishing CurriculumSupporting faculty authors in creating open textbooks for higher education, this course is designed to be pragmatic support for open textbook publishing programs.
- Making Open Textbooks - video seriesThis video series (Rebus Community) presents the roles, models, and guidelines that make up the process of creating and publishing open textbooks.
- Creating OER and Combining Licenses (9:16)This video is intended to help you choose compatible resources and choose a valid license for your work. If you are developing an open educational resource (OER) and you want to use some other OER within yours, you must not only follow the terms of each of the licenses involved, but also choose a license for your work that is compatible with the other licenses.
- LibreText YouTube ChannelVideos for adopting, adapting, and creating course materials using the LibreTexts platform and content
- OA Books ToolkitThis toolkit aims to help book authors to better understand open access book publishing.
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OERA tool for educators, librarians, and authors to evaluate common professional scenarios in which fair use can support the use of copyrighted materials to create OER.
- ChartabilityChartability is a methodology for ensuring that data visualizations, systems, and interfaces are accessible. Chartability is organized into principles with testable criteria and focused on creating an outcome that is an inclusive data experience for people with disabilities.
- OER Review Standards and Approval Rubric: United States EditionThis document is a collaboration designed to support the curation and creation of OER best practices or standards for OER review and approval.
Choose an Open License
Know the Creative Commons Licenses
Creative Commons License Chooser Tool
Choose license features to create the license that is best for your publication.
How to Choose an Open License
From the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, this report provides decision points for choosing an open license.