British Columbia
18 Simon Fraser University (SFU)
SUPPORT
Contacts
For assistance, please contact:
- Hope Power, Teaching & Learning Librarian
Email: hpower@sfu.ca
Phone: 778-782-4359
For questions about grants, contact:
- oer-grants@sfu.ca
Website and information
Key documents
- Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants: Year Three Summary Report
- OER Grants: Year Two Summary [Word]
Events
- Open Educational Resources (OER) for Remote Instruction (July 8, 2020)
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Open Education 2019: Transforming Teaching & Learning at SFU (May 27, 2019)
- Open Education 2018: Transforming Teaching and Learning at SFU (May 24, 2018)
Adoptions
If you are using an open textbook or other OER in an SFU course, please report it to:
- Hope Power, Teaching & Learning Librarian
Email: hpower@sfu.ca
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
SFU Library
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.”
OER from SFU
Open books and textbooks – new
- British Columbia in a Global Context contributing authors Cristina Temenos, Britta Ricker
- Ethics in Law Enforcement by co-author Rick Parent
- The Web, Publishing, and Ourselves by Sophie Mackenzie, Juan Pablo Alperin
Open textbooks – adapted
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Calculus Early Transcendentals: Differential & Multi-Variable Calculus for Social Sciences (CC BY-NC-SA) by Dr. Petra Menz, Nicola Mulberry – used in MATH 157
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Calculus Early Transcendentals: Integral & Multi-Variable Calculus for Social Sciences (CC BY-NC-SA) by Dr. Petra Menz, Nicola Mulberry – used in MATH 158
Supplementary materials
- Virtual and Augmented Reality field trips, contributor Brent Ward
Support resources
- Faculty OER Toolkit by Shannon Moist
- OER Student Toolkit contributing author Brady Yano
Sustainability
- SFU: OER Protege Program
SFU Digital Publishing
- Our projects: Digital Publishing
- Journals
- Student journals
- Books
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Public Service Media Initiatives in the Global South (CC BY-NC-ND)
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History of Community Mental Health in the Vancouver Area (1973 – 2000) by L. Ralph Buckley
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Souvenirs d’Émigration: Lettres à Madame de Montijo en 1801 et 1803 by Rosena Davison
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- Course journals
- Archived journals
SFU Theses
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Exploring the practices of educators using open educational resources (OER) in the British Columbia higher education system – November 13, 2013 (David Porter)
Other OER used in SFU courses
- CMPT 165: CMPT 165 Study Guide
CREATING OER
Publishing
Grants and projects
Projects in progress
SFU OER Grants
BCcampus Open Education funding 2020
- Create an Introductory Criminology open textbook (KPU lead institution) – contributor
Open Geography Lab Manual
- Contributor: Andrew Perkins
REVIEWING OER
Open textbooks reviewed by SFU faculty
- Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
- Concept Development Studies in Chemistry
- Concepts of Biology (OpenStax)
- Democracy in Brief
- Global Women’s Issues: Women in the World Today, extended version
- Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy
- Human Rights in Brief
- Introductory Statistics (OpenStax)
- Introductory Statistics (Saylor)
- Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity
- Macroeconomics: Theory through Applications
- Modern Philosophy
- Nationalism, Self-determination and Secession
- Precalculus (Stitz-Zeager)
- Presentation Software
- Principles of Microeconomics (Saylor)
- Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
- Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation
- Technical Writing Essentials
- Understanding Media and Culture
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
- BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education: Petra Menz and Nicola Mulberry – March 24, 2021 (BCcampus News)
- This math lecturer developed her own open textbook – now thousands are using it – January 31, 2021 (SFU News)
- Comment, reply, repeat: Engaging students with social annotation – September 4, 2019 (Hypothes.is Blog)
- PKP joins OPERAS – May 27, 2019 (PKP News)
- OPERAS welcomes PKP as a new member – May 27, 2019
- Opening the door to life beyond textbooks – May 10, 2019 (Teaching and Learning Centre, News)
- Open Education Week: Spotlight on Open Educational Resources (OER) at SFU – March 4, 2019 (SFU Library Blog)
- What do trade agreements have to do with copyright? The Canada-US-Mexico Agreement and fair dealing – February 25, 2019 (SFU Library, Jennifer Zerkee)
- Opening Education: How OER Can Make Education More Accessible and Transformative – May 24, 2018
- A growing appreciation for open textbooks – May 18, 2018 (SFU News)
BEYOND SFU
BCcampus Open Education
Advisory Board
- Hope Power (2019-20)
Health ZTC Programs Advisory Group
- Brad Mladenovic (2019-21)
STEM ZTC Programs Advisory Group
- Taco Niet (2019-21)
- Gaitri Yapa (2019-21)
BCOEL Membership
- Hope Power
- Kevin Stranac
- Janis McKenzie
SPARC
2018-2019 Open Education Leadership Mentors
- Hope Power