• Finding OER:
  • Assistance searching for appropriate OER to use in courses and/or finding OER to adapt where no resources exist.
• Licensing and Copyright consultation:
  • We can offer advice if you would like to openly license your own work, or if you have questions about how you can reuse/remix openly licensed work. We can also help you write attribution statements and find/use openly licensed media.
  • We also offer virtual workshops on Copyright & Licensing for OER (see the DREAM Lab event calendar for sign-up links and more info)
• One-on-one Pressbooks consultations and Workshops
  • If you want to get started with Pressbooks, learn what you can make with Pressbooks, or get a one-on-one Pressbooks tutorial, you can sign up for a one on one Pressbooks training with the OER specialist.
  • We also offer virtual Introduction to Pressbooks and Advanced Pressbooks workshops each term, you can find workshop dates and sign up links on the DREAM Lab events calendar.

OER Development Support

• Project management: assistance planning the OER development process and regular meetings with the OER team.
• Basic editorial review.
• Cover design and assistance finding openly licensed images.
• Pressbooks troubleshooting and formatting assistance.
• Assistance incorporating interactive elements like Hypothes.is and H5P into Pressbooks projects.
• Accessibility review and assistance implementing accessibility best practices.

These resources will help guide you through the OER development process. Everyone’s OER creation process will look a little different, the OER Production Workflow will give you you an idea of all the steps that go into OER creation. The OER Pre-Production Author Guide is designed to be completed alongside step two in the OER Production Workflow and will help you set actionable goals for your project and come up with a workable structure. If questions come up at any point in the production process you can always contact the OER team.