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Episode 5 | Championing Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources are revolutionizing academic publishing and making it possible for students to access learning materials for free. Mount Royal University librarian Cari Merkley chats with us about her work with Open Education Alberta - a service that offers collaborative publishing of open textbooks at no cost.
Bibliography and Sources
BCCampus. (n.d.). The New Normal: Using OER to re-open education. https://bccampus.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Using-OER-to-reopen.pdf
Caldwell, J. (2020). OER: Trial by COVID-19. BCCampus. https://bccampus.ca/2020/05/14/oer-trial-by-covid-19/
Askin, N., Brunet, M., Coughlan, R., Daniels, C., Durnin, F., Khetarpal, M., Ludbrook, A., Morrison, L. & Smith, A. (2020). Environmental Scan of Open Education Service and Support in Canada. CARL Open Education Working Group. https://www.carl-abrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/OEWG_environmental_scan_eng.pdf
Cox, C. (2020). Changed, Changed Utterly. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/06/05/academic-libraries-will-change-significant-ways-result-pandemic-opinion
Fazackerley, A. (2021, Jan 29). 'Price gouging from Covid': student ebooks costing up to 500% more than in print. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/29/price-gouging-from-covid-student-ebooks-costing-up-to-500-more-than-in-print
Jhangiani, R. S., & Jhangiani, S. (2017). Investigating the Perceptions, Use, and Impact of Open Textbooks: A survey of Post-Secondary Students in British Columbia. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3012
Klar, R. (2020, Dec 2). Amazon under pressure to lift ban on e-book library sales. The Hill. https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/528280-amazon-under-pressure-to-lift-ban-on-e-book-library-sales
McKenzie, L. (2020). Window of Opportunity for OER. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/13/pandemic-drives-increased-interest-open-educational-resources
Nearly, L. (2019). You May Have To Wait To Borrow A New E-Book From The Library. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775150979/you-may-have-to-wait-to-borrow-a-new-e-book-from-the-library
Open-access.net. (n.d.) What is Open Access?https://open-access.net/en/information-on-open-access/what-is-open-access#:~:text=The%20aim%20of%20OA%20is,and%20legal%20barriers%20as%20possible
Walters, W. (2014). E-books in academic libraries: Challenges for sharing and use. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 46(2) 85–95. DOI: 10.1177/0961000612470279
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By Mount Royal University LibraryOpen Educational Resources are revolutionizing academic publishing and making it possible for students to access learning materials for free. Mount Royal University librarian Cari Merkley chats with us about her work with Open Education Alberta - a service that offers collaborative publishing of open textbooks at no cost.
Bibliography and Sources
BCCampus. (n.d.). The New Normal: Using OER to re-open education. https://bccampus.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Using-OER-to-reopen.pdf
Caldwell, J. (2020). OER: Trial by COVID-19. BCCampus. https://bccampus.ca/2020/05/14/oer-trial-by-covid-19/
Askin, N., Brunet, M., Coughlan, R., Daniels, C., Durnin, F., Khetarpal, M., Ludbrook, A., Morrison, L. & Smith, A. (2020). Environmental Scan of Open Education Service and Support in Canada. CARL Open Education Working Group. https://www.carl-abrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/OEWG_environmental_scan_eng.pdf
Cox, C. (2020). Changed, Changed Utterly. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/06/05/academic-libraries-will-change-significant-ways-result-pandemic-opinion
Fazackerley, A. (2021, Jan 29). 'Price gouging from Covid': student ebooks costing up to 500% more than in print. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/29/price-gouging-from-covid-student-ebooks-costing-up-to-500-more-than-in-print
Jhangiani, R. S., & Jhangiani, S. (2017). Investigating the Perceptions, Use, and Impact of Open Textbooks: A survey of Post-Secondary Students in British Columbia. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3012
Klar, R. (2020, Dec 2). Amazon under pressure to lift ban on e-book library sales. The Hill. https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/528280-amazon-under-pressure-to-lift-ban-on-e-book-library-sales
McKenzie, L. (2020). Window of Opportunity for OER. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/13/pandemic-drives-increased-interest-open-educational-resources
Nearly, L. (2019). You May Have To Wait To Borrow A New E-Book From The Library. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775150979/you-may-have-to-wait-to-borrow-a-new-e-book-from-the-library
Open-access.net. (n.d.) What is Open Access?https://open-access.net/en/information-on-open-access/what-is-open-access#:~:text=The%20aim%20of%20OA%20is,and%20legal%20barriers%20as%20possible
Walters, W. (2014). E-books in academic libraries: Challenges for sharing and use. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 46(2) 85–95. DOI: 10.1177/0961000612470279