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This is one of many support resources from BCcampus Open Education.\nAlso see the Information Directory<\/em><\/a> and Post-Secondary Directory<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\nWelcome to the BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Directory. <\/em>This support resource lists a broad range of open educational resources (OER) organized by discipline. OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them.\n\nThis is considered an ongoing resource as information will be added\u00a0continuously to this directory as it comes available. Each chapter (web page) has a \u201cLast update\u201d date to clearly indicate when data have been added.\n

Purpose<\/h1>\nThis directory was developed to highlight as many OER as possible\u2014case studies, courses, games, repositories, simulations, textbooks, videos, and more\u2014and organize them so faculty can easily locate resources in their subject area.\u00a0Although\u00a0we've made a great start, we are far from having a complete record and are regularly\u00a0adding and updating this directory as we find more resources. This directory acts as a supplement to the B.C. Open Textbook Collection<\/a> as it contains<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>OER that doesn't\u00a0meet the specific requirements of the <\/span>collection. This directory contains links pointing people to the B.C. Open Textbook Collection, but none of the textbooks in the collection are listed in this directory.\u00a0<\/span>\n

OpenCon 2017 Do-a-thon<\/h1>\nThis directory would not be what it is without those who contributed to the \"Anthology of (non-textbook) OERs, organized by discipline<\/a>\" do-a-thon project that took place at OpenCon in Berlin, Germany, in November 2017. Roughly a dozen people collaborated on compiling lists of OER material and collections, and that list was used as a starting point for developing this directory. We would like to send out a heartfelt thank you to all who were able to contribute to that project.\n

About BCcampus Open Education<\/h1>\nBCcampus Open Education<\/a> began in 2012 as the B.C. Open Textbook Project with the goal of making post-secondary education in British Columbia more accessible by reducing students\u2019 costs through the use of open textbooks and other OER. BCcampus<\/a> supports the post-secondary institutions of British Columbia as they adapt and evolve their teaching and learning practices to enable powerful learning opportunities for the students of B.C. BCcampus Open Education is funded by the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training<\/a>, and the Hewlett Foundation<\/a>.\n\nOpen educational resources (OER) are defined as teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. We consider this publication -- along with our guides, slide decks, and other support materials --as a type of OER that informs faculty, staff, and students during their production or usage of open textbooks or other open educational resources.\n\nThis directory does not come with an index. Instead, use the search field located in the top-right corner of each page in the online version to locate a specific topic.\n
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This is one of many support resources from BCcampus Open Education.
\nAlso see the Information Directory<\/em><\/a> and Post-Secondary Directory<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n

Welcome to the BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Directory. <\/em>This support resource lists a broad range of open educational resources (OER) organized by discipline. OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them.<\/p>\n

This is considered an ongoing resource as information will be added\u00a0continuously to this directory as it comes available. Each chapter (web page) has a \u201cLast update\u201d date to clearly indicate when data have been added.<\/p>\n

Purpose<\/h1>\n

This directory was developed to highlight as many OER as possible\u2014case studies, courses, games, repositories, simulations, textbooks, videos, and more\u2014and organize them so faculty can easily locate resources in their subject area.\u00a0Although\u00a0we’ve made a great start, we are far from having a complete record and are regularly\u00a0adding and updating this directory as we find more resources. This directory acts as a supplement to the B.C. Open Textbook Collection<\/a> as it contains<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>OER that doesn’t\u00a0meet the specific requirements of the <\/span>collection. This directory contains links pointing people to the B.C. Open Textbook Collection, but none of the textbooks in the collection are listed in this directory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

OpenCon 2017 Do-a-thon<\/h1>\n

This directory would not be what it is without those who contributed to the “Anthology of (non-textbook) OERs, organized by discipline<\/a>” do-a-thon project that took place at OpenCon in Berlin, Germany, in November 2017. Roughly a dozen people collaborated on compiling lists of OER material and collections, and that list was used as a starting point for developing this directory. We would like to send out a heartfelt thank you to all who were able to contribute to that project.<\/p>\n

About BCcampus Open Education<\/h1>\n

BCcampus Open Education<\/a> began in 2012 as the B.C. Open Textbook Project with the goal of making post-secondary education in British Columbia more accessible by reducing students\u2019 costs through the use of open textbooks and other OER. BCcampus<\/a> supports the post-secondary institutions of British Columbia as they adapt and evolve their teaching and learning practices to enable powerful learning opportunities for the students of B.C. BCcampus Open Education is funded by the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training<\/a>, and the Hewlett Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Open educational resources (OER) are defined as teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. We consider this publication — along with our guides, slide decks, and other support materials –as a type of OER that informs faculty, staff, and students during their production or usage of open textbooks or other open educational resources.<\/p>\n

This directory does not come with an index. Instead, use the search field located in the top-right corner of each page in the online version to locate a specific topic.<\/p>\n

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