A. General resources for teaching in general, teaching theory, Open Education Resources (OER), etc. are listed below and may be scrolled through.
B. Topic-specific resources on the Teaching Commons website can be discovered in two ways:
1. By searching a specific term or tag using the “Search Teaching Commons” box at the bottom of the left-hand column.
2. By browsing the items posted (in chronological order) in the sub-categories listed on the left:
1. Helpful to Everyone
a. Link to Faculty Resources for the following general information and resources:
1. Teaching Commons: To search for specific content in the Teaching Commons postings, type key words into the "Search Teaching Commons" box, e.g. "cries," crying" for finding information on what to do if a student cries in class or in your office.
2. Ontario Resources: To search for external, Ontario-based resources Search E-Campus Ontario's Teaching Resources.
"Find OER" (web page) from OPEN (Open Professionals Education Network) "help[s] you find openly licensed media elements to use within your courses" in the following categories:
1. "[I]ndividual media elements to use within their courses, such as photos, graphics, videos, and audio, that are openly licensed in a way that freely permits education use"
A newly published, open-access, downloadable book, Open: The Philosophy and Practices That Are Revolutionizing Education and Science (2017) “share[s] the principal voices, motivations, and practices of the open movement” (p. 5).
Among its 22 chapters are the following:
