OPEN SOURCE AND FREE TOOLS FOR CREATING OER
AI and GenAI
AI and GenAI provide tools to create educational resources in a brand new speedy way. (See the GenAI Prism to the left created by Brian Solis et al., ©2023)
Whatever is AI (or machine) generated is considered public domain. Thus, anything you create using these tools can be incorporated into your OER.
Open Source and Free OER Development Tools:
| Name |
Link |
Function |
Type of License |
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GIMP |
https://www.gimp.org/ |
Raster photo editing |
GNU General Public License |
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LibreOffice |
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/ |
Office Suite: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, html docs. |
GNU Lesser General Public License |
| Apache OpenOffice | https://www.openoffice.org/ | Office Suite: word processing, spreadsheet, multi-media presentations, draw, database, math equations graphic user interface | Apache License 2.0. |
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Linux |
https://www.linux.org/ |
Operating system (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Slackware, Mint, Xubuntu, Arch,…) |
GNU General Public License (GPL) |
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Visual Studio Code |
Coding |
(Microsoft) Free with Open Source (GitHub) | |
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Grafana |
Data Visualization and analytics |
Free option gives access to the Grafana Cloud. Limited to 3 active users per month. | |
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Notepad++ |
Source code editor |
GNU General Public License. |
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Blender |
3D creation suite used for modeling, animation, and rendering |
GNU General Public License v.2.0 |
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Shotcut |
Video editor |
GNU General Public License version 3.0 | |
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Inkscape |
https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4.2/windows/64-bit/msi/?redirected=1 |
Vector Graphics editor |
GNU General Public License 2.0 |
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Audacity |
https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ |
Audio editor for recording and editing sound |
GNU General Public License 3.0 |
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WordPress |
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/download/ |
Website development |
GNU General Public License 2.0 |
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Godot Engine |
https://godotengine.org/download/windows/ |
Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine |
MIT license (Expat) |
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Darktable |
https://darktable.org/ |
(Lightroom equivalent) Raw Photo editing and management |
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 License. |
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RawTherapee |
https://www.rawtherapee.com/ |
Raw photo editing |
GPLv3 license. |
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Canva |
https://www.canva.com/free/ |
Graphics and Social Media |
Free online (limits options) |
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Pixlr |
https://pixlr.com/ |
Image editing (with AI-photo editing tools) |
Free – non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide and revocable license to use the Services in accordance with these Terms |
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Photopea |
Online photo editing |
Free account | |
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Fotor |
Online Photo editor |
Free account – Non-commercial use only | |
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Hugin |
Panorama stitcher |
GNU GPL v2 |
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Luminance HDR |
Imports differently exposed photos and merges them. |
GNU GPL v2 |
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Python |
https://www.python.org/downloads/ | Programming Language | Python Software Foundation License V2 |
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Overleaf |
https://www.python.org/downloads/ | Online LaTeX Editor | Python Software Foundation License V2 |