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Abstract
Open Educational Resources (OER) promise to reduce entry barriers towards educational resources as well as to avoid redundant work when similar educational resources of high quality are created in different organizations. However, adoption of OER faces known challenges, and the ALMS framework provides evaluation criteria for the re-use of OER from a technical perspective. Starting from a self-experiment on OER adoption, novel requirements for OER based on the ALMS framework are defined by taking concepts from software engineering and technical writing into account. Respecting these requirements, two OER projects are reported: First, the creation of a new edition of a textbook under a Creative Commons license is sketched. Second, the development and use of a new software tool, called emacs-reveal, is described. This tool allows to generate HTML presentations with embedded audio explanations, which are suitable for self-study. The generation of HTML from simple text files takes place in a public GitLab infrastructure, increasing the software's ease of use. Students' responses to a questionnaire demonstrate advantages of generated presentations.
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