Sample glossary
- adapt
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Taking one or more OER resources and merging or rearranging these to make a new OER. Adapting can be as simple as rearranging chapters in an existing OER textbook or combining chapters from several OER.
- adopt
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Taking an existing OER and using it as is in your course. For example, you might adopt a textbook from OpenStax.
- attribution
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Credit for the work. Usually you need to provide the hyperlinked title, author, hyperlinked source and the hyperlinked creative commons license.
- crowdsourcing
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The practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers
- Glossary Hover Over
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A feature of Pressbooks that creates an interactive glossary.
- ISBN
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International Standard Book Number
- medium
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a channel or system of communication, information, or entertainment
- public domain
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The realm embracing property rights that belong to the community at large, are unprotected by copyright or patent, and are subject to appropriation by anyone.
