18 Simon Fraser University (SFU)

USING OER

SFU Repositories

• Open Educational Resources (OER) collection (SFU Summit Research Repository)
• SFU Archaeology  Press (CC BY-NC-ND)
• OpenEd Media
• Public Knowledge Project

Canadian Repositories

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

SFU Library

• Finding and evaluating OER
• Open education resources: Understanding OER guide

SFU Teaching and Learning Centre

• A guide for new faculty and instructors at SFU (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • Part 2: In the classroom and beyond, 6. Preparing the class, how do I choose my textbooks and other course materials? “…If you use a standard text along with previously used course materials like assignments, make sure that the materials refer to the same text edition that your students will be using. If you are free to choose a textbook, keep your students’ finances, as well as sustainability, in mind. For example, you might want to consider an electronic text instead of a printed text, or you might want to use an open access book (for example, from the BC Open Textbook Project) (italics added) instead of a text sold by a publishing company.”

CREATING OER

Publishing

• Scholarly publishing & open access
• Digital publishing
• Open monograph press

Grants and projects

• Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants
  • How to apply
  • Tools and resources

REVIEWING OER

• Apply to review an open textbook

OPEN EDUCATION IN ACTION

Working group

• Information on the SFU OER Working Group
• For more information about this group, email: oer-working-group@sfu.ca 

Research and presentations

Alperin, J.P., Morales, E., & McKiernan, E. (2019). Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community. LSE Impact Blog. Retrieved from https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/07/17/academic-review-promotion-and-tenure-documents-promote-a-view-of-open-access-that-is-at-odds-with-the-wider-academic-community/

Alperin, J.P., Nieves, C.M., Schimanski, L.A., Fischman, G.E., Niles, M.T. & McKiernan, A. (2019). Meta-research: How significant are the public dimensions of faculty work in review, promotion and tenure documents? eLife, 8(e42254), doi: 10.7554/eLife.42254.

Belikov, O., & Bodily, R. (2016). Incentives and barriers to OER adoption: A qualitative analysis of faculty perceptions. Open Praxis, 8(3), 235-246. http://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.8.3.308

Maxwell, J.W., Hanson, E., Desai, L., Tiampo, C., O’Donnell, K., Ketheeswaran, A., Sun, M., Walter, E., Michelle, E. (2019). Mind the Gap: A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms (1st ed.). Retrieved from https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/

McClure, M. & Belikov, O. (2020). A qualitative analysis of open textbook reviews. The International Journal of Open Educational Resources. https://www.ijoer.org/a-qualitative-analysis-of-open-textbook-reviews/#1604854405843-39f2027e-d600

Blogs and news