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Ashley Ribbel

Published: 11/7/2020

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Faculty Guide to Open Educational Resources and Other Alternatives for Textbooks

Faculty guide to open educational resources and other alternatives to textbooks

This guide is meant to help you navigate the world of Open Educational Resources.

Who can help me with OERs?

Seneca OER Examples

OER Workflows

Review OERs

Teaching & Learning Centre articles:

Other OER resources from the Teaching & Learning Centre:

Exploring and Evaluating Open Educational Resources nutshell — a self-paced online module
Adapting an Open Text — an episode of "Teaching and Learning Stories from the Field," a podcast from Seneca’s Teaching & Learning Centre

OERs in the Academic Newsletter:

OER Stories featuring Michael Wade and Melissa Warner from Seneca Business
OER Stories featuring Debi Tziatis from Seneca Business
Open Text Adaptation Grants Update
Open Educational Resources Sub-Committee Update

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 4.0 International License.

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Seneca OER Committee

Course Design

The key to course design at Seneca is meeting your course’s learning outcomes within the 14 week semester.

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What are OERs?

OERs are "any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license."

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Seneca OER Committee

The committee was struck in Spring of 2017 as a sub-committee of the Educational Technology Advisory Committee (ETAC).

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OER Workflows

The OER Committee has put together some draft workflows to assist faculty interested in using OERs or alternative textbooks and course materials.

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Seneca OER Examples

OERs developed by faculty at Seneca.

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Find OERs

The process of evaluating OERs is similar to evaluating textbooks.

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Adapt OERs

There is a lot of great content already developed but maybe it’s not quite right for your course. The great thing about OERs, in most cases, is you can modify the content as you wish!

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Create OERs

You may choose to create your own OER if you cannot find one to adapt, or you may already have content created but would now like to share it.

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OER Accessibility

What material needs to be made accessible? What kind of accessibility statement needs to accompany an open textbook?

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Who can help me with OERs?

Who can help you with OERs?

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Review OERs

eCampusOntario has a call for OER reviewers.

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Teaching Tips

We’ve compiled a collection of teaching tips and ideas that will support you in the classroom whether you are new to the college or a seasoned instructor.

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