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Remixing & Curating OER
Remixing & Curating OER
You don't have to reinvent the wheel to curate and remix OER. With the creative commons it is possible to "remix" from others for faster creations! Think of it like pulling from multiple buckets of OER and pouring them into a new bucket to fit your specific needs. However, even remixing takes a lot of work and there are many OERs out there, so look over the current ones first, it could be there is an OER sitting out there ready to be used!
If you want to mix and match between a couple different OER's, you are on the path to remix and curate your own OER!
Make a Table of Contents
Using your COR, SLOs, C-id, and Course Lectures and make a comprehensive table of contents with keywords from your class.
Link out each section to the OER content you want to use. Sometimes this is referred to as OER Mapping.
Mix and match, aggregate the content into a single source, and edit!
Mix and Match!
As Academics, plagiarism is always a hot button topic but remixing and using OER content is NOT plagiarism as long as you follow the attribution rules and creative commons licensing.
In the world of OER as long as you give credit, and the licensing allows, you can use the work of others to build your own custom OER!
This looks like taking multiple OER resources and combining them to fit your needs, and there are many different workflows to go about this.
Some OER Repositories have their own remix tool like Libre Text, or you can choose to pull the content into a word document, or a google site and edit from there!
Instead of having to author from scratch, you can often get the “broad strokes” and “base content” from other sources and then just edit to fit your needs!
What does mix and match look like?
What does mix and match look like?
We find existing "buckets of OER content" and combine into a single bucket for you to edit:
Single Google Doc or Microsoft Document with copy and pasted content
Google site
Libre Conductor Remixer Book Builder
Pressbooks book builder
Curating a Collection
Curating a Collection
Like in a museum, take multiple finished works, and curate them into a whole. You don't modify the individual paintings, you arrange them into a new collection. These are often called "anthologies" or "collections".
What does this look like?
A Word Document with multiple complete OER's aggregated together into a collection.
A Libre Text curation where you pull from current publications into a new grouping.
Example: A book of short stories by various authors on a given topic.
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Remixing and Adaption
Remixing and Adaption
The "smoothie" option, this means you take current OERs and remix into something new. It's not plagiarism because we always give credit, and we make sure the licensing is compatible.
What does this look like?
You take content with the correct licensing, and you cut it up, edit, delete, add to, and make into a single new "smoothie" in the form of a word document, google site, or Libre Text. It's not plagiarism because of the licensing and attributions.
You put attributions at the bottom saying where you remixed the content from and put an appropriate creative commons license on your new OER.
Workflow's will vary!
Workflow's will vary!
You'll pull in the OER content you want, decide on a remixed adaption or a curated collection anthology and then it's simply:
Edit, curate, remix, author sections, delete what you want, re-write sections, add in images or examples that fit what you need
Double check attributions and licensing
Copy-editing
Accessibility & UX
Publish!
See the Project Management Page if you have multiple collaborators!
Authoring OER from Scratch:
Authoring OER from Scratch:
Just like writing any other book!
Just like writing any other book!
Make an outline
Check the C-ID and your institution's COR & SLOs
Think about your final audience
Write it out like you would any paper or book using a word document or a 3rd party host like Libre Text
Libre Text has a remix tool you can use to build out and type in.
Pressbooks is a paid subscription but also has a way to build and type out within their software.
If you're using federal or state documents that are public, make sure they have an option for OER distribution or link out to them within your resource.
Add in creative commons images or take your own
Choose a creative commons license
Upload to whatever host you'd like for larger distribution!
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