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Help us develop our OER Community Hub
May 31, 2017, 11:34 a.m.
Welcome to our Community Hub – we really appreciate your support! As an early adopter of our Hub, you can help us cultivate and expand this collection of community-sourced, open resources. Here are some ways you can help our Hub grow:
Start fruitful conversation about OER by adding a discussion question to a book group. It could be anything you’re interested in discussing relating to OER and/or the OpenStax text – resources or homework providers that complement the text best, ways to take full advantage of OERs, etc.
Use your expertise by answering a question in a discussion post.
Spread the word by sharing the Hub with your colleagues and professional organizations.
Send us your ideas and suggestions about how to make the Hub better at skb3@rice.edu.
Do at least one of these things before you go on vacation this summer! Thanks again for being a part of our community, and for helping us spread the OER movement.
Contribute to the community
Sept. 2, 2016, 9:20 a.m.
(1) Join a group
To get started, join one of the working groups below. In groups, you can meet peers who are creating and collaborating on resources that compliment the OpenStax textbooks. Together you can share content, provide one another feedback, and collaborate on new material.
(2) Submit content
Create new content or upload your own using ISKME's Open Author tools. Open Author allows you to create shareable, remixable versions of resources, which can be copyrighted according to your specifications and made available to the community. Tutorials and help content about Open Author are provided in the videos and tool box below.
(3) Share with others
Once published, your content will be reviewed by the OpenStax team, added to our public collections, and shared with the OpenStax community on OER Commons and through our home site, OpenStax.org.
