LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Create an Open Textbook

Current BCcampus Grants

BC Campus is government-funded organization supporting open education in BC posts secondary institutions. Check out their pages for grants and calls for proposals, events, and news, or subscribe to the bi-weekly newsletter.

Current List
Check back with this page as additional grants are added.
Professional Learning Grant
Award for Excellence in Open Education
Review an Open Textbook
Grants and Proposals Archive
View the list of previous grants that have been offered over the years.

OER Open Repositories for Submitting Your Research

LISSA
LISSA hosts open article uploads, and can be used for uploading research articles, presentations, students’ work, etc.
LISSA assigns unique DOI to each document.
OSF
OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration.

How to create OER

Faculty OER Toolkit
BCcampus' introduction to OER adoption. Outlines differences between adoption, adaptation, and creation, and provides an overview of licensing and copyright.
Self Publishing Guide
For those ready to move beyond the Faculty OER Toolkit. Details the preparation, planning, writing, publication, and maintenance of an open textbook, from BCcampus.
Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
This textbook from the REBUS Community features case studies, sample assignments, and MOU of rights and responsibilities of collaborators.
Open Educational Resources: OER Authoring Tools
While both BCcampus and the REBUS Community use Pressbooks, you can create OER in many formats (images, audio files, video, mathematical formulas). This guide from SUNY Empire State College lists tools that output in open file formats.
Open Textbook Publishing Guide
This guide contains a lot of downloadable templates and resources. It is arranged into phases of the publishing process from planning to creating content to collecting data about the impact of the publication.
UBC Library OER Fund Support
This infographics has time estimates for OER projects.
Open Textbook Publishing Orientation
A online learning module from the University of Michigan.
Overleaf
Edit LaTeX to create math and science content.
Fanshawe College OER Design Studio Github
Code for multiple OER creation support tools from Fanshawe College

Pressbooks

Pressbooks Guide
BCcampus' step-by-step guide for an author to use to create or modify an open textbook in Pressbooks.
Pressbooks Tutorial Videos
BCcampus's video tutorial series created to assist anyone wanting to use, create, and adapt open textbooks with Pressbooks.
Publishing with Pressbooks: A Visual Guide
UBC Library Pressbooks Template
Import this book into your Pressbook to get templates for commonly used front and back matter pages such as Licensing Info, How to Use This Book, Acknowledgements, Glossary, and Versioning History.
Using LaTeX in Pressbooks
An introduction to using LaTeX in Pressbooks including an introduction to the program and worked tutorials on creating equations, plots, and multi-lingual documents.

Case study: Teaching in a Digital Age, by A.W. (Tony) Bates

Follow Tony Bates, consultant in online learning in higher education, on the journey to creating Teaching in a Digital Age, an open textbook now hosted on BCcampus.

Posts from Bates' blog, Online learning and distance education resources:

Open Educational Resources: Create an Open Textbook

OER Workflow

Current BCcampus Grants

OER Open Repositories for Submitting Your Research

How to create OER

Pressbooks

Case study: Teaching in a Digital Age, by A.W. (Tony) Bates