USING OER

DC Open Textbooks

DOuglas Open Repository (DOOR)

• Arca provides access to post-secondary institutional digital assets and research output via a cross-repository search layer. Participating institutions share a single repository, with individual customized website interfaces providing portals to their own content

Canadian repositories

• B.C. Open Collection
• Open Library (Ontario)

Douglas College Library

• Open educational resources

Douglas College Bookstore

• Open textbooks are noted by courses during online purchase
• Bound print copies are available in store for select open textbooks

CREATING OER

Grants and projects

• OER Incentive Grants

REVIEWING OER

• Apply to review an open textbook

OPEN EDUCATION IN ACTION

Working group

• Membership
• Mission

Student Union

• Open Textbooks Now! campaign
• The DSU and Open Douglas: Partners in student advocacy

Blogs, articles and news

• Free textbooks and other open educational resources gain popularity – July 1, 2023 (Physics Today)
• Quality Through Collaboration: Open Problems and Images for Physics – April 6, 2022 (BCcampus News)

• And the Incentive Grant winners are … – July 7, 2021 (Open Douglas)

• A strategic plan for OER at Douglas – March 24, 2021 (Open Douglas)

• Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 OER Incentive Grant Winners – March 16, 2021 (Open Douglas)

• Discovering his passion: how this alum’s time at Douglas helped him build the foundation for his career – March 5, 2021 (Douglas College Blog)
• There is nowhere to go but up for OER at Douglas College – January 29, 2021 (Open Douglas)
• Huge increase in open textbook use at Douglas College for Winter 2021 – January 12, 2021 (Open Douglas)
• Douglas to develop ZTC for General Business Certificate – January 11, 2021 (Academica Group)
• OER Grant Awarded to Douglas College for ZTC Business Program – January 7, 2021 (BCcampus News)
• Zero-textbook-cost Grant Awarded to Business Management Department – January 5, 2021 (Open Douglas)
• Award for Excellence in Open Education: Debra Flewelling – May 13, 2020 (BCcampus)
• Press Play to Improve Access and Inclusivity – November 13, 2019 (BCcampus News_
• OER incentive grant winners for Summer 2019 – June 26, 2019 (Open Douglas)
• Open textbooks in use at Douglas College for Summer 2019 – May 29, 2019 (Open Douglas)
• Award for Excellence in Open Education: Jennifer Kirkey – April 30, 2019 (BCcampus)

• Jennifer Kirkey: Winner of BCcampus’ Award for Excellence in Open Education – April 20, 2019 (Open Douglas)

• Students care about more than the cost of textbooks – August 24, 2018 (Open Douglas)
• Why I started down the open textbook path – July 31 2018 (Open Douglas)
• Researchers describe patterns of open textbook adoptions in BC – July 23, 2018 (Open Douglas)
• Open Education Stories: Removing barriers to access with Jennifer Barker – October 10, 2017 (BCcampus)

Research and presentations

Barker J., Jeffery, K., Jhangiani, R.S., Veletsianos, G. (2018). Eight patterns of open textbook adoption in British Columbia The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(3).

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