As textbooks in the Course Reserves room at the library are inaccessible due to Covid-19, check out potential open textbooks to be adopted for your courses in OER by Discipline Resource Guide : Concordia University.
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that permit no-cost access, use, adaptation, and/or redistribution by others. They include textbooks, curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, question banks, videos, audio, simulations, assessments, etc.
Adapted from "Open Education: Content" (EDUCAUSE)
OER overview
Getting to know the basics
What are open educational resources? Why are they used? How are OER licensed?
Find OER
Major OER collections
Where can you find OER? How do you access or download an open textbook? What about quality?
OER grants
Call for applications
How to apply for Concordia University's OER Grants? How much is the funding? What are the objectives and criteria?
Library OER Services
Publishing, Open licensing, and Accessibility
What are the types of services provided by the Library in adopting, customizing, and creating open textbooks?
Current Projects
Open textbooks under development
What are the projects that were awarded the OER Grants? When are they expected to be completed?
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