Click the Submit a resource button on the Contribute page.

Submit open educational resources to OER Commons if you control the copyright or licensing, and if the materials are hosted online. OER Commons will create a record of the resources and make it discoverable to other users.

Open Author offers the option to create and share resources by importing from Google Docs. We recommend using the Google Doc Import feature rather than adding a URL link to your Google Doc within an Open Author resource for a few different reasons: 

• This feature makes it easy for educators to share resources they've built in Google Docs in a remixable format, with the added value of Open Author's powerful version tracking.
• You needn't worry about the permissions associated with your Google Doc
• You are on your way to becoming an OER Super Star by contributing your truely sharable and remixable resource!

Importing a Google Doc to Create an Open Author Resource

This guide provides a primer on copyright and use permissions. It is intended to support teachers, librarians, curriculum experts and others in identifying the terms of use for digital resources, so that the resources may be appropriately (and legally) used as part of lessons and instruction. The guide also helps educators and curriculum experts in approaching the task of securing permission to use copyrighted materials in their classrooms, collections, libraries or elsewhere in new ways and with fewer restrictions than fair use potentially offers. The guide was created as part of ISKME's Primary Source Project, and is the result of collaboration with copyright holders, intellectual property experts, and educators.

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The rubric is designed to guide our practice in supporting and evaluating effective school librarian leadership development within this project. The components of the rubric are called elements  -- the building blocks that this project deems as necessary to support school librarians to co-lead and promote high-quality STEM learning experiences that take advantage of rich information, openly accessible resources, and useful technologies, and as they collaborate with STEM teachers to integrate text-focused inquiry and literacy into the curriculum.

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Interested in learning more about the tools you can find on OER Commons to help your work in open education? Visit ISKME's OER Training Webinars here to watch recordings of the webinars.

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