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The power of OER is in its re-use by others, creating a rich learning environment. You benefit from OER, by being able to access a variety of resources for your various learning and teaching needs. Likewise, it is important for you to publish the OER you create or re-purpose, so that it is available to others (for re-use or re-purposing). It is also important for you to access existing OER, revise them to make them more valuable (by improving their accuracy and comprehensiveness, by contextualising them, by translating them etc), such re-purposing will make it eYou can publish your OER in popular OER repositories, some of which have been mentioned earlier in this toolkit.

Publishing text OER

There are many OER repositories for uploading your text resources.

You can also edit the relevant pages in Wikipedia, to add your own contribution if the page is already existing. In case the page does not exist in Wikipedia, you can create the page as well, this is the way this encyclopedia has grown to be the most referred to encyclopedia. This is even more relevant if you are creating an OER in a language other than English. Most languages of the world are not well represented on Wikipedia (see List of Wikipedias), especially languages spoken in the developing countries. You will need to follow the editing guidelines of Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia is a very popular encyclopedia, if you could regularly contribute your OER to Wikipedia, it would be useful to many others.

You can create your own (blog) site, on Wordpress. If you would like to upload all your OER in a single place to make it available to others, this is a good option. Wordpress is a simple software for you to manage your web content.

Slideshare is another popular web site where you can upload your presentation slides.

As mentioned, you should publish in formats that are open and easier to edit. Hence you should prefer an ODT over a PDF format (editable v/s non-editable) for publishing a text document. Again you should prefer an ODT over a DOCX format (open v/s closed)

Publishing image OER

Image OER can similarly be uploaded on Wikimedia commons. Other options include Flickr

Publishing audio and video OER

Audio OER can be uploaded on Soundcloud

Video OER can be uploaded on Youtube. You should ensure to select the Creative Commons license when you upload your video OER, to ensure that it is available freely to others.

Image - Specifying CC license for video uploaded on Youtube

Vimeo is another popular site for uploading OER videos

The table below provides the web spaces available for you to publish your OER.

No	Category	Site for publishing OER on-line
1	Text OER	Wikipedia, Wikieducator
2	Text OER – Presentations	Slideshare
3	Image OER	Wikimedia commons
4	Audio OER	Soundcloud
5	Video OER	Youtube, Vimeo

Note

Before uploading your OER, you will need to register or create a login id on the site
You need to ensure that you have not used any non-open (copyright) materials in making your OER.

Popular OER repositories

The large-scale repositories created through the OER movement include
OpenCourseWare,
OER Commons,
Merlot
Khan Academy
OpenLearn

Lists of OER repositories or articles listing OER repositories

http://libguides.nvcc.edu/c.php?g=361340&p=2439998
https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_educational_video_websites
http://wikieducator.org/Exemplary_Collection_of_Open_eLearning_Content_Repositories
http://libguides.nvcc.edu/c.php?g=361340&p=2440000
http://col-oer.weebly.com/module-4---the-oer-landscape---how-to-find-oer.html
DiscoverEd "is a search prototype developed by Creative Commons to explore metadata enhanced search, specifically for OER"
https://www.edutopia.org/open-educational-resources-guide

FOSS applications used in the tool-kit

No	Category	Name	File format	More information (Wikipedia)	User Manual	Tutorials	Alternatives on GNU/Linux	On Windows operating system	On Mobile phone
1	Text OER	Freeplane	.mm	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeplane	https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page	https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page	Freemind	Freeplane	Freeplane Reader
2	Text OER	LibreOffice Writer	.odt	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice_Writer https://help.libreoffice.org/Main_Page		https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94682FC0D2ADF410	Apache OpenOffice Writer	LibreOffice Writer	Open Document Viewer
3	Text OER	LibreOffice Impress	.odp	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice	https://www.libreoffice.org/	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR7yVoPn2bs	Sozi	LibreOffice Impress	Open Document Viewer
4	Image OER	Screenshot	.png	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki4SBEkwmM0	Shutter, Lightscreen	PicPick, Snagit	Screen Capture
5	Image OER	Tux Paint	.png	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Paint	http://tuxpaint.org/	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6hKk-0dzKA	Kolor Paint, My Paint, GIMP	Kolour Paint, MS Paint	Paint
6	Image OER	GIMP	.png	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP	https://www.gimp.org/	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZr8mBLiY8Y http://spoken-tutorial.org/tutorial-search/?search_foss=GIMP&search_language=English	LibreOffice Draw	GIMP, LibreOffice Draw	Photo Editor, Collage Photo editor
7	Animation OER	Tux Paint	.png	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Paint	http://tuxpaint.org/	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6hKk-0dzKA	Tupi	KtooN
0	Audio OER	Audacity	.wav/.mp3	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor)	http://www.audacityteam.org/	http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorials.html	Ocean Audio, Kwave	Audacity	Audio Editor, Ringtone Cutter
9	Video OER	recordmydesktop	.ogv	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RecordMyDesktop	http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-nAcMK6m_I	Kazam	Cam Studio	AZ Screen Recorder
10	Video OER	OpenShot	.osp/.mp4	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenShot	http://www.openshot.org/	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDbQr0hNVZs	Kdenlive	OpenShot editor, Windows Movie Maker

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+The power of OER is in its re-use by others, creating a rich learning environment. You benefit from OER, by being able to access a variety of resources for your various learning and teaching needs. Likewise, it is important for you to publish the OER you create or re-purpose, so that it is available to others (for re-use or re-purposing). It is also important for you to access existing OER, revise them to make them more valuable (by improving their accuracy and comprehensiveness, by contextualising them, by translating them etc), such re-purposing will make it eYou can publish your OER in popular OER repositories, some of which have been mentioned earlier in this toolkit.
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   Image - Specifying CC license for video uploaded on Youtube<br>
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 [[wikipedia:Vimeo|Vimeo]] is another popular site for uploading OER videos