This chapter offers guidelines on the pre-publication stage of creating and developing an open educational resource textbook.

Below you will find a video playlist from the Rebus Guide. In this playlist, open educator and textbook developer Zoe Wake Hyde offers a quick overview of OER creation.

Making Open Textbooks: A Video Guide — Rebus Guide, Apurva Ashok, and Zoe Wake Hyde

If you’re looking for a light overview of OER creation, check out the video series version of this guide. Making Open Textbooks: A Video Guide provides a brief summary of each of the major phases of creation. The short videos present the roles, models, and guidelines that make up the process of creating and publishing open textbooks. From project conception and rounding up a team of collaborators, to creating, editing, and reviewing your content, all the way through to release, marketing, adoptions, and revisions, these videos summarize the many steps along the way.

Making Open Textbooks: A Video Guide features Zoe Wake Hyde. It is edited and directed by David Szanto. Transcript and captions provided by Mei Lin.

Clicking play will begin the series of videos, which will run in order. Videos include:

Making Open Textbooks – introduction (0:38 minutes duration)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 1.0: building a team (2:08)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 1.1: leading a team (4:08)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 2: project scoping (3:42)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 3: content creation (4:06)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 4: editing content (3:57)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 5.1 peer review (4:42)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 5.2: testing and feedback (2:59)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 6: marketing (4:40)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 7: release (7:41)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 8: adoptions (5:30)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 9: maintenance & improvements (6:42)

Making Open Textbooks – Part 10: adaptations (5:54)

To access the videos individually, see this playlist on YouTube.