George W. Wallace Library: Copyright Workshop: Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resouces (OERs) workshop

This module will introduce you to open educational resources or OERs, which are educational tools made available to everyone, free of charge, with the freedom to modify and adapt them for your needs.

After completing this module, you will be able to locate open educational resources and understand how you may use them in your teaching practice.

Additional Information

Links to OER Information and Resources:

Fabrique REL
La fabriqueREL (ressources éducatives libres) est un projet conjoint de l’Université de Sherbrooke, de l’Université de Montréal et de l’Université Laval réalisé dans le cadre d’un mandat octroyé en 2019 par le ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur et du Plan d’action numérique en éducation et en enseignement supérieur. Il est porté par les unités en soutien à la pédagogie universitaire et les services des bibliothèques des trois partenaires. (added Jan2022)
ADTE - Logiciels et resources numériques libres pour l'enseignement supérieur
ADTE's mission is to promote open source software and open education resources, science and open data in higher education. Their goal is to facilitate the sharing of expertise and usage of these resources. (added 14Feb2022)
Le Pavillon de ressources éducatives numériques
Database of digital education resources for students and staff in higher education (added Jan2022)
Concordia University Library - OER Guide
Learn about OER initiatives and resources/textbooks from Concordia University
Pressbooks Directory
A directory that provides an index of 3,118 books published across 111 Pressbook networks. (added Jan2022)
Open Education Resources - University of Victory Libraries
Open Education Resources website at the University of Victoria (added Jan2022)
OpenStax
Open access textbooks (added Jan2022)
BC Campus - OpenEd
BC Campus Open Education Resources page. Space to find, use and create Open Textbooks. (Added Jan2022)
eCampusOntario - H5P Studio
eCampus Ontario catalogue of reusable H5P Content (added Jan2022)
Algonquin College - Open Educational Resources
Algonquin College has created a list of repositories of Open Educational Resources.
Open Education Resources - A Video Primer
This is a video primer on OERs created by Dr. Rory McGreal, Contact North, Contact Nord Research Associate and the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educations Resources.
Open Source Initiative
The mission of the Open Source Initiative is to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source. A variety of Open Source licenses and standards can be found at this location.
Ressources éducatives libres (REL) - Un guide de ressources (Biblio UQAM)
Produced by the librarians at UQAM, this guide explores the usage and preparation of open education resources. Geared towards students and teachers, it proposes materials and tools to help create OERs, the structure of Wikipedia, information of usage licenses and readings.
(accessed 23May2018)
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As found in the following newletter article: https://www.actualites.uqam.ca/2018/nouveaux-guides-educatifs-site-bibliotheques
Ryan Moone resource page - QACVE conference presentation-May 2015
Provides links to resources discussed during Ryan W. Moon's May 2015 presentation "Spice Up Your Design with Creative Commons and OERs" - QACVE Conference May 2015
UNESCO - Education transforms lives
This UNESCO website provides access to various tools and reports.

Links to Creative Commons tools

CCDMD - World of Images
Images and videos that are available for free for educational use.
ccMixter
Music offered under Creative Commons license.
Creative Commons Search Tool
Search.creativecommons.org conveniently pulls together in one location search services created by other independant organizations such as Google, Google Images, Flickr, Open Clip Art Library, Wikimedia Commons, Youtube, etc. Please verify license associated with items before reuse.
Flickr - Creative Commons Images
Images under Creative Commons license found within the Flickr plateform.

Links to published articles of interest

Educative (formerly Profweb) - An Open Education Resource for Physical Education
This article by Cindy Cook, Teacher at Collège LaSalle discusses their implementation of an in-house made digital textbook for a physical education course at her college.

Note: Educative - formerly Profweb

Acknowledgement

We acknowledge the financial contribution of the Table Interordres provinciale du secteur Anglophone / Provincial Interlevel Table for the English Sector, as well as the technical contribution of M. Ryan Moon, Program Manager - English Language Services Cégep à distance.

The presentation content was adapted from the REPTIC April 2014 workshop Copyrights in the CEGEP environment by Maître Robert Y. Cousineau.