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Open Pedagogy

Pressbooks

Pressbooks

"Design your book from start to finish in just a few easy steps, and create beautiful print books, ebooks, and webbooks for any genre. Easy-to-use software that lets you design and produce your book with just a few clicks. Create ebooks and PDFs to submit to Kindle, iBooks, IngramSpark, Kobo, Nook, and more."

Open Learn Create

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"OpenLearn Create provides a lower cost solution for projects and organisations wanting to deliver Open Educational Resources and free hosting of your course if you don't require additional support.

Open Author

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"You can use Open Author to create resources with both instructor and student facing views. This means that instructors can view the resource that is customized for instruction, and students can view the resource that is customized for their learning needs."

Merlot Content Builder

Merlot Content Builder

"The MERLOT Content Builder is a free website development tool. It is accessible by logged-in members from the MERLOT home page by clicking the Add menu at the top of the page and selecting Create Material with Content Builder."

Omeka

Omeka

"Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its five-minute setup makes launching an online archive or exhibition as easy as launching a blog."

H5P

H5P

"H5P is a free and open-source content collaboration framework based on JavaScript. H5P is an abbreviation for HTML5 Package, and aims to make it easy for everyone to create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content."

Scalar

Scalar

"A free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of non-linear ways." 

SPLOT

SPLOT

A Wordpress theme that makes collaborative curation easy. "Visitors to the site can upload any image, and provide a name for credit, select categories to organize them, add tags, and provide information to credit the source of the found images." Developed by Alan Levine. 

Hypothesis

Hypothesis

Hypothesis is a web annotation tool. "Using annotation, we enable sentence-level note taking or critique on top of news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and more. Everything we build is guided by our principles. In particular that it be free, open, non-profit, neutral and lasting to name a few."

Buffscreate

Buffscreate

Available to CU Arts & Sciences learners and faculty. Create a domain of your own and install an array of applications. Applications available WordPress, Omeka, Scalar, Joomla, Drupal, MediaWiki, and Mahara, among others.1gb of storage.