"In the context of OER, localization refers to the process of taking educational resources developed for one context and adapting them for other contexts. These contexts can, for example, be geographical, pedagogical, political, or technical. The practice of localization encompasses more than the translation of materials into a local language or swapping a photo to reflect a culture. Localization is at the heart of the OER process—it exemplifies diversity, openness, and reusability."

Another great book-building tool for educators. Features a text reader and student annotation tool.

Amazon's self-publishing tool. Provides professional binding and distribution channel for author-created content.

A self-publishing tool. Can create a printed book or an ebook. Also has distribution options.

Google Sites has a little more functionality than ANGEL does in formatting a site to look the way you want it too. It also has a function to make the site private so that only your students can access it. It doesn't however allow each individual student to access personal information such as grades. The automatic Table of Contents function would be a nice way to organize lots of chunks of information you collected from different sources.

"Simple Book Publishing: PressBooks makes it easy to create all the beautifully-designed files you need to publish your books and ebooks: PDF for print and print-on-demand including Amazon’s CreateSpace, MOBI for Kindle, and EPUB for Apple’s iBooks, Nook, Kobo and others."

Ebook publisher

**NEW** This site helps you organize learning objectives, resources and assignments for your course. Especially helpful for blended courses.