4: Mapping and Organizing your OER
Map it out
Before diving into an OER, it is a best practice to map out what you want to cover, how it relates to your learning objectives, and what is already available out there. This will save you a lot of time in both the creation of your OER as well as the maintenance and sustainably of it over time.
- How is this going to help with your course/unit learning outcomes and goals?
- What are the topics for each section of your OER?
- Are you writing each section as an individual OER? Or will your OER be one whole book?
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Have you reviewed what is already out there as an OER in your topic area? Can it be remixed?
- If it can be remixed, do you have links to the chapters or sections you want to adapt?
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If you are going to use previous works, publications, journal articles, and research,
- Was it previously published under copyright?
- Is it under a publisher, and do you have the rights to republish it under Creative Commons?
- Were there any terms or conditions to the works you produced previously that would prevent you from building it into your OER?
- How are you going to integrate feedback into the future maintenance of your OER?
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- 4.1: Mapping and Planning an OER or Remix
- Mapping comes in two forms for the intent of this chapter. Mapping as in the origination of what your chapters, topics and learning objectives are for the sections you are putting together for your OER. And Remix Mapping which is a file that gets generated when you are using the Remixer in LibreTexts. Before getting into the latter, it is best to sit down and "map out" what you think you'll be putting together into an OER.