Open Educational Resources (OER)

Free OER Authoring Tools

• LibreStudio

  Find openly licensed interactive activities that can be embedded in the LMS.

• LibreText

  Access, build and remix open textbooks across multiple disciplines from this open textbook platform initiated at the University of California, Davis.

• Materia - Create Engaging Apps

  Create effective, interactive learning tools called Widgets. Browse our catalog and begin customizing in seconds. Widgets can be tailored to suit your needs, no matter the subject matter. Best of all, widgets can be embedded directly in your LMS to enhance your online course.

• MERLOT's Content Builder

  Access templates for creating tailored websites with a variety of designs, including e-portfolio structures, lesson plans, online courses, and others.

• Open Author

  Bring in and adapt your own resources, as well as resources from its affiliated OER Commons library, to create new or remixed OER.

• OpenLearn Create

  Create and publish your own free courses using your own materials or free OpenLearn content or a combination of both.

• PubPub

  PubPub is an open-source, hosted, free-to-use content management system designed to help knowledge communities of all types collaboratively create and share knowledge online.

• TED-Ed Content Builder Tool

  Create lessons around any TED-Ed Animation, TED talk or YouTube video. You can search for and select a video, then add interactive questions, discussion topics, and more.

• Twenty Million Minds Mix

  Twenty Million Minds Mix allows faculty to create high grade custom textbooks in both digital and print formats. With access to the entire open source Connexions library, in addition to supplemental publisher content, instructors can now deliver quality course specific experiences that help drive down textbook costs for students.

This page is adapted from OER: Open Educational Resources by the University of Pittsburgh

and Open Educational Resources (OER) by Broward College under a  CC BY license