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NSCC OER Toolkit -- Adopt & Adapt OER

Three Open Educational Resources (OER) Guides -- What is the difference?

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OER Toolkit -- How to adopt and adapt OER.
Open Educational Resources (OER) Guide -- General information about OER.
NSCC Open Textbooks -- A Listing of Open Textbooks being used at NSCC with Textbook Content Boxes that can be embedded into Brightspace

NSCC OER Flowchart - Gtting Started with OER @ NSCC

NSCC OER Flowchart

Getting Started With Open Educational Resources (OER)

Faculty -- Request a Curated OER List

Evaluate OER Check List for Faculty A checklist to help guide your evaluation of OER.

NSCC Libraries Pressbooks
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Pressbooks is a an authoring and publishing platform that support the creation, adaptation and sharing or open textbooks.

Submit a Request to Adopt or Adapt an Open Textbook

Complete the Open Textbook Adopt, Adapt & Remixing Request Template form below.

Open Textbook Adopt, Adapt & Remixing Request Template

Customizing OER

Open Educational Resources are OPEN!

You can use as little or as much as you need.
You can revise and customize

Here are some tools to help you adapt and customize:

NSCC OER Recipe
A framework and checklist for creating or adapting OER at NSCC.
Faculty Guide for Evaluating OER

A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students

OER Creation and Adaptation
Written by Rajiv S. Jhangiani to accompany an OER Workshop.
A guide to understanding, creating & adapting OERs. Includes links to video lessons and Pressbooks best practices.

The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far)