Open Educational Resources

The Ontario Open Library Network (OOLN) is a space for librarians, faculty, students, instructional designers, and educational technologists to exchange ideas, get support, and find guidelines and templates for facilitating your Open Education work within and outside of Pressbooks. OOLN will also be our main channel for quick Pressbooks support.

Learn more about OOLN by visiting https://OOLN.ca, or jump right in the Slack Channel here:https://bit.ly/joinOOLN!  

"OOLN is a community initiative powered by eCampusOntario to steward the growth of Open Education at Ontario Colleges and Universities."

As part of the Ontario government’s 3 year pilot of LinkedIn Learning (now Lynda.com), eCampusOntario has compiled a casebook of examples of Ontario practitioners using the platform in their teaching and learning environment.

The Casebook is published in the eCampusOntario open library and can be accessed, downloaded and printed here: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/applicationsoflinkedinlearning/

"Creative Commons Officially Launches a Search Engine that Indexes 300+ Million Public Domain Images" (post) introduces "CC Search, a search engine that indexes over 300 million images."

A. "Welcome to the Open Library: The Home of the Open Educational Resources (OERS) in Ontario" (web page) allows instructors to do the following:

1. Find

• "Search our collection of open texbooks and other open resources."

• "The curated collection aligns with top subject areas in post-secondary education and features reviews from experts and educators across Canada."

2. Customize

eCampusOntario is committed to raising awareness about the value and use of open educational resources (OER) and building capacity and expertise within member institutions to support a sustainable open education strategy for Ontario. A critical component of this strategy is the Open Education (OE) Fellows program. The program provides six (6) OE Fellows the opportunity to explore applied possibilities for OER to improve teaching practice and build learner-centred, open pedagogic models for others to refine and/or adopt.

Application submission due date is Monday, January 28, 2019 at 5:00 pm. 

Full details, including a link to the application package is available on the Call for Participation website.