OER Remixing Tools on OER Commons
Overview
This section walks faculty through considerations and tools for the process of OER Remixing.
Using Tools and Rubrics to Remix OER
When faculty are remixing OER to customize it for their courses, it is key that faculty have a plan for why, why, and how they want to iterate a resource. Below are several importants questions to consider when remixing OER:
- What aspects of this OER need to be updated for relevance/accuracy?
- What aspects of this OER need to be updated for accessibility?
- What aspects of this OER need to be updated to increase authentic student engagement?
- What is my timeline for these OER iterations?
- Who can partner with me to make these OER iterations?
- AI is a tool that can both support and hinder the remixing of OER.
To support faculty in remixing OER, OER Commons has developed a tool called Open Author, which includes several key features for creating OER.
- Open Author is built to specifically build sections and hierarchical structures that support accessibility.
- Formatting styles are purposefully limited to increase accessibility.
- An accesibility checker is built into the Open Author tool to check for top accessibility practices such as Alt Text and use of headings.
- Video on using the Remix tool (___ minute watch)