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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Faisal Al-Faisal
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.
Janice Aurini
My OER project
I am currently editing an Introduction to Sociology textbook offered via e-campus Ontario.
Barb Bloemhof
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
My OER project
I'm currently working on a fully online version of CS 116.
Alana Cattapan
My OER project
Welcome to Canadian Politics (always a work in progress)
Brian Forrest
My OER projects
These are my resources for two courses on the Foundations of Calculus I teach in the MMT program:
Foundations of Calculus 1 for Teachers
Foundations of Calculus 2 for Teachers
Amanda McKenzie
My OER projects
Hannah Tait Neufeld
My OER project
Graduate-level module on Indigenous health and social justice.
Leanne Racicot
My OER project
Link to a virtual organic chemistry laboratory home page coming soon!
James Skidmore
My OER project
Creating an open textbook for German 615.
Elisabeth van Stam
My OER project
Kari D. Weaver
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.
