11 Business OER

The field of business has several Open Educational Resources (OER) available for post-secondary educators to use in their teaching practices. eCampusOntario recently launched an Open at Scale – Business OER project, where they will be targeting OER development and adaptations for nine highly enrolled business courses in the Ontario college sector. The courses include:

• Business Fundamentals / Intro to Business
• Business Mathematics
• Business Communication / Professional Writing
• Intro to Marketing
• Intro to Human Resources
• Financial Accounting / Intro Accounting
• Intro to Business Computing
• Organizational Behaviour
• Economics

An environmental scan uncovered 169 OER, and a detailed tracking spreadsheet was created that outlined areas such as the publisher, type of OER and the specific license used.

High quality OER that were highlighted from the environmental scan include:

Business Fundamentals / Introduction to Business

• Fundamentals of Business: Canadian Edition (eCampusOntario)
• Fundamentals of Business, Second Edition (Virginia Tech Open Textbooks)

Business Mathematics

• Introductory Business Statistics (OpenStax)
• Introductory Business Statistics with Interactive Spreadsheets – 1st Canadian Edition (BCCampus)

Business Communication / Professional Writing

• Communication for Business Professionals: Canadian Edition (eCampusOntario)

Introduction to Marketing

• Principles of Marketing (BCCampus)

Introduction to Human Resources

• Human Resource Management (University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing)

Financial Accounting / Introduction Accounting

• Introduction to Financial Accounting: Third Edition (BCCampus)
• Financial Accounting (University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing)

Introduction to Business Computing

• Computer Applications (Suny OER, Lumen Learning)
• Beginning Excel (Open Oregon Educational Resources)
• Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harness Technology (University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing)

Organizational Behaviour

• Organizational Behaviour (BCCampus)

Economics

• Principles of Economics (OpenStax)
• Principles of Economics (University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing)
• Principles of Microeconomics: UVic (BCCampus)