Open Educational Resources
What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
OER are free educational materials that include textbooks, curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation. These materials are free of most legal restrictions and can be re-used without fear of copyright infringement.
How can the library help?
Do you want to... |
Library staff can... |
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| Include zero cost textbooks in your course? | Do the tricky searching to identify free library materials and other alternatives for your course and help you register your course with ZTC. |
| Create open course materials (OER) specific for your course? | Set you up on Pressbooks to author your own ebooks for teaching, including tools for embedding media and H5P exercises. |
| Connect your students with OER via your existing course page and syllabus? | Share options for presenting OER and library materials in your courses. |
Contact our team at oer.support@ualberta.ca to get started.