OER Practitioners at Waterloo

Which instructors are involved with OER at Waterloo?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are of increased interest to instructors and are being used more widely than ever before. Below are profiles of instructors at Waterloo who are engaged with OER. Engagement runs a spectrum that includes using OERs, replacing commercial textbooks with curated OERs, and creating your own OERs. If you are interested in OER and looking for like-minded scholars, this is the page for you!

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Head shot of Faisal Al-Faisal

Faisal Al-Faisal

Lecturer

My OER project

I am involved in the development of MATH 136 and MATH 235 (Linear Algebra 1 and 2) courseware - which include the course textbooks and fully solved exercises and problems.

Professor Janice Aurini

Janice Aurini

Associate Professor | Co-op Advisor, Sociology

My OER project

I am currently editing an Introduction to Sociology textbook offered via e-campus Ontario.

Barb Bloemhof

Barb Bloemhof

Lecturer, Economics

My OER project

The OER project that I am working on is on the subject of international trade: it is a way of seeing why tariffs should be avoided. I'm just starting my project so please watch this space.

Carmen Bruni

Carmen Bruni

Lecturer, Cheriton School of Computer Science

My OER project

I'm currently working on a fully online version of CS 116.

Hannah Tait Neufeld

Hannah Tait Neufeld

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health Sciences

My OER project

Graduate-level module on Indigenous health and social justice. 

Leanne Racicot

Leanne Racicot

Laboratory Instructor, Chemistry

My OER project

Link to a virtual organic chemistry laboratory home page coming soon!

Kari D. Weaver

Kari D. Weaver

Learning, Teaching, and Instructional Design Librarian

My OER project

Waterloo Library's Online Learning Object Repository 
Along with the members, past and present, of the Library's Instructional Design Team, I have a whole repository of OER materials. We affectionately call it the OLOR.