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OER: Authoring tools

OER Authoring & Creation Resources

SoftChalk Create

TCSG faculty and staff can download a copy of SoftChalk from GVTC. Contact Missy Lockhart or Beth Thornton for details.

More resources

OER Commons
Helps you build Open Educational Resources, lesson plans, and courses (on your own, or with others) — and then publish them, to the benefit of educators and learners everywhere.
Authoring accessible OER
80 Open Education Resource (OER) tools for publishing and development initiatives.
Open resources/MERLOT: Customizing and authoring content
Creating Open Educational Resources
A 7-step guide to creating your own Open Educational Resources
Creating OER the WHO and the HOW
OERPUB
Create - OER Commons
LibreOffice
S5
Google Drive
Course Builder

Images

Here is a short list of free image editors.

GIMP open source image editor
Popular and free. You might want to check out the GIMP tutorials
Inkscape
A free, opensource vector graphics illustrator.
Pixlr
A free online image editor.

Some of the information on this page came from the LibGuide titled" Open Textbooks, and Creative Commons" by Sarah Morehouse(Suny Empire State College) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

Video Authoring

Video Hosting

Audio

Audacity
Free audio editing software. Audacity won't save your work as an .mp3 unless you download the LAME codec
Audacity tutorials
It's fairly intuitive to record audio using Audacity, but creating a great audio file might require some tutorials.

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