Guidelines for Creating and Sharing Open Educational Resources
1. Design for Openness
It is important to ensure you have permission to publish all of the content in your materials. If you use third-party content, make sure to address copyright considerations in the following ways:
Use tools such at H5P and Hypothes.is to create interactive components.
2. Choose a License
A Creative Commons license provides the legal framework to share your materials. Attribution is always a requirement, and the author can decide whether or not to open it up to remixing and/or commercial use. If possible, embed the license HTML code in your webpage to allow it your materials to appear in Creative Commons search results.
3. Publish
Make your materials available online at a publicly-available URL. If you aren't able to publish to your own website, you can use one of the following options. Sites to upload and share your materials:
Open Scholars Press is a platform developed by Royce Kimmons (BYU IP&T professor) that is simple to use, easy for students, and completely open.
ScholarsArchive is the BYU Institutional Repository capable of publishing any type of scholarly content, including course materials.
Google Docs for sharing documents (lesson plans, activities, instructional materials, etc.). Once you have uploaded your materials, get a public URL for a document or collection of documents by changing the sharing settings to "Public on the Web".