Open Educational Resources (OER)

This guide provides information and resources to help support you learn about OER, find and evaluate existing OER, adopt OER, and create OER projects.

Adopt an OER: Getting Started

Alberta OER: The Starter Kit
Open educational resources (OERs) are a broad and diverse category. This may make the prospect of adopting or creating an OER daunting - leaving many instructors unsure of where they should start. This toolkit will provide you with some considerations before you start using OERs in your classroom, in addition to strategies, practices, and web resources.
BCcampus Open Education Adoption Guide: A Guide to Adopting an Open Textbook
This guide was created by BCcampus Open Education with the assistance of several faculty and staff who attended our Adoption Workshop Development Sprint on March 31-April 1, 2016 in Vancouver. We thank Caroline Daniels and Dr. Farhad Dastur (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Inba Kehoe (University of Victoria), Dr. David Harper (University of the Fraser Valley), Lucas Wright (University of British Columbia), and Gail Morong (Thompson Rivers University).

Have you adopted an OER? Let us know!

Have you adopted open educational resources to use in your course?

If so, we encourage you to share it with us to learn more about the work you are doing around OER adoption on our campus.

Please fill out the Open Educational Resource Adoption and Creation Self-Reporting Form.

BCcampus’ Review an Open Textbook

Available to faculty in Alberta, BCcampus is looking for qualified textbook reviewers for select open textbooks held within the B.C. Open Textbook Collection. If an open textbook within their list of eligible titles is of interest to you, consider submitting an application.

Visit the BCcampus Webpage to apply

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Adopt an OER: Getting Started

Have you adopted an OER? Let us know!

BCcampus’ Review an Open Textbook