Provide your students an alternative to expensive textbooks by following these steps:
Below are some resources for adapting, creating, and sharing your own OER:
*note: this was reused and adapted from Kirkwood Community College Library's guide on open textbooks
Open Textbook Adoption Worksheet
Questions to ask about the OER you are thinking of using. This rubric is developed by Sarah Morehouse with help from Mark McBride, Kathleen Stone, and Beth Burns is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Remember, citing openly licensed materials, whether they're images or videos or textbooks, is often referred to as "attribution" in the OER world. To "attribute" something, you are giving credit. It's the same idea as "citing" -- just a different term for it.
Citing = Attributing
Citation = Attribution
You can cite or attribute openly licensed materials in different ways. I will outline the two main methods below. Remember to always doublecheck with your instructors about which citation method(s) they prefer.
Open License Attribution in Regular Citation Styles
If you need to cite your sources using a regular citation style, like APA or MLA, then you just simply add the CC or public domain license info at the end of your regular citation. Below is an example of citing an image with open licensing in APA.
Claypool, R. (2012, October 5). Flamingo [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://flic.kr/p/dh7axD. CC BY license.