6 Curating Resources
When selecting, organizing, preparing presentation materials for teaching, and evaluations for your course, make the McMaster Library your first stop. Here we highlight some key resources to support business courses.
Linkedin Learning
LiL is a web-based service that offers over 130,000 video training courses taught by experts in software, creative, IT, and business skills.
Useful resources include:
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- How to Use LinkedIn Learning (collection of courses)
- McMaster LiL User Guide
- LiL Library Guide
- Email: linkedin@mcmaster.ca
HSTalks
HSTalks has over 1,400 multimedia lectures, case studies and interviews from scholars and expert practitioners. HSTalks also contains 20 peer-reviewed vocational journals such as Journal of Brand Strategy and Applied Marketing Analytics.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
When using open educational materials, note the type of licensing so you know how you can use them in your course. The six Creative Commons Licensing types are:
- CC BY: Requires crediting author and allows to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon one’s work, even commercially.
Faculty OER Toolkit by Shannon Moist is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. - CC BY-SA: Same as CC BY, but also requires new work to be licensed as CC BY-SA.
- CC BY-ND: Requires crediting author and redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, but without changing original work.
- CC BY-NC: Requires crediting author and allows to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon one’s work, but only for non-commercial purposes.
- CC BY-NC-SA: Same as previous one, but also requires new work to be licensed as CC BY-NC-SA.
- CC BY-NC-ND: Requires crediting author and allows for download and sharing of material if the work is not changed or used commercially.
OER for Business
Resources related to business and other disciplines can be found in many databases such as:
McMaster Open Educational Resources Committee
Formed in 2017, the McMaster committee works to raise understanding and awareness of the advantages of using OER across the McMaster community.
Contact any of the members if you are interested in:
- Grants
- Events
- Use, creation or adoption of OER for your course.
Harvard Business Publishing Education
Educator site includes teaching advise, guides, tips, and more.
To access their teaching resources you can open an account to create collections and course packs with up to 60% off.
Teaching Resources (free account)
Once registered you can select from their various free newsletters that include
- Webinars
- Testimonials
- Articles: insights, tips, etc.
Course Reserves
Course reserves are course-related items (books or other materials) that are made available to students through McMaster libraries for free. Reserves can be accessed electronically via our new eReserves system, or as physical items that can be borrowed from the Service Desks at campus libraries.
Includes information about Print Reserves, eReserves, Custom Courseware, Copyright and Licensing, FAQs and more.
Other useful resources for your course content and research include:
- Linking to Library e-Resources
Guide includes a handy tool that helps creates permalinks – URLs that provide stable access to the Library’s e-resources (online articles, e-books) for students that are on and off-campus.
- Research Guides for Business
Identifies relevant research resources for specific courses and topics such as:- business cases
- business databases
- citing in business
- company reports
- financial ratios
- industry reports
Suggestions for new guides are always welcome.
- Library Remote Support Hub for Instructors
Includes a list of Library Services, Resources and Collections tailored to meet the information needs of instructors at McMaster.
