Acknowledgements

Land Acknowledgement

We wish to acknowledge and honour indigenous history and in the spirit of reconciliation, we convey our respect to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people.

Conestoga College is located on the traditional territory of the Anishnaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral peoples. Georgian College campuses are situated on the traditional land of the Anishnaabeg people. The Anishnaabeg include the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Pottawatomi nations, collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy. Sheridan campuses reside on traditional land territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations, Anishinaabe Nation, Huron-Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

How It Began….

In the Spring of 2018, I (Kimberlee) attended a workshop on building OER (Open Educational Resources) for high impact in first year courses. I was moved by the student speaker’s plea over the rising costs of textbooks and motivated to learn more about the ability to customize OER. In health office administration programs, customization is important because we are a combination of health and business. I attended a Pressbooks webinar, signed up for an account, and started plugging away. I will be honest, the task was daunting to do alone.

Marie and I met in the Winter of 2019 as participants in the Ontario Extend eCampus Ontario MOOC and went on to become Empowered Educators. Through this program, we learned about Creative Commons licensing and were inspired to create OER. In the fall of 2019, I shared what I had been working on with Marie and this led to a collaborative partnership that snowballed into this OER. We advocated for support, found collaborators, and ultimately crowdsourced this OER. Please read below to learn about the amazing collaborative support we had for this OER, for which we are truly grateful.

Kimberlee Carter B.Ed., M.A., Conestoga College ITAL

Thank you Kimberlee for inviting me to partake and share this adventure with you. The opportunity to create a resource for learners in this OPEN format has been a wonderful and collaborative endeavour.

Marie Rutherford, Dip., Nursing, LD., BGS., Georgian College CAAT

The Journey Continues…

Kimberlee Carter, OER Consultant, Open Learning, Library and Learning Services at Conestoga College

The healthcare field constantly evolves with new research, changing environments, and advancing technology. The second edition of Building a Medical Terminology Foundation is designed to stay in step with these ongoing advancements. I am privileged to contribute to our learning materials’ continuous improvement and relevance and Open Educational Resource updates. I am ever grateful for the continuous improvement and collaboration with many knowledge expert colleagues. Thank you to my co-authors, Marie Rutherford and Kimberlee Carter, who are tireless advocates for OERs, and for impacting our students.

Connie Stevens, Faculty, RN, BScN, MA, PhD. Sheridan College ITAL

The second edition of this resource was developed through the efforts and inspiration of many talented and dedicated individuals. In the pages of the second edition, I am humbled by the brilliance and unwavering commitment of those who joined on this journey. To the editors who polished and worked through the book identifying any issues and resolving them: thank you. With boundless admiration, I am thankful for the wraparound support and design insights provided from the OER Design Studio at Georgian College and Open Learning at Conestoga College. No words are enough to covey heartfelt thanks. A special thank-you to my co-authors, Connie Stevens, and Kimberlee Carter, who remains the catalyst and the driver of innovation to bring the first edition and second edition from concept to completion. 

Marie Rutherford, Dip., Nursing, LD., BGS., Georgian College CAAT

Thanks and Gratitude

Our thanks and gratitude listings are a combination of individuals who were instrumental in the development of this resource and include recognition of the first and second edition contributors.

We wish to thank our partner institutions involved in the development of this edition who are champions of Open Learning practices: the Open Learning team at Conestoga College, the OER Design Studio team at Georgian College, and Sheridan College. 

Thanks to Gary Hallam, Vice President of Research & Executive Dean of the School of Business at Conestoga College ITAL, for sharing his dream for OER and championing our project to other business heads in the Ontario College System. His encouragement and resource support led to the expansive collaboration team that saw this project through to publishing.

We also extend our gratitude to Pavla Kazda, Dean from Georgian College CAAT, for her support, encouragement and resource allocation.

We wish to recognize the work of our students, whose dedication, creation of activities, and commitment to reviewing interactive activities throughout the development of this resource was invaluable. Additional thanks for examining content and providing feedback from the student perspective. Thank you for paying it forward for future students.

• Tiffany Hunt BSc., Conestoga College ITAL
• Heather Scudder, Georgian College CAAT
• Gisele Tuzon, Georgian College CAAT
• Alyssa Arsenault, Conestoga College ITAL
• Tania Deane, Conestoga College ITAL
• David McCuaig, Conestoga College ITAL
• Hana You, Conestoga College ITAL
• Benny Baby, Georgian College CAAT
• Val Hrynyk, Georgian College CAAT

To our amazing subject matter experts who continued with a backpack full of responsibilities to author content in the first edition and helped to crowdsource this OER, as well as those who assisted with the revisions for the new edition:

• Ellen Dilgert BSc, BEd, RTNM, RTMR, Conestoga College ITAL
• Sheila Bellefeuille, Conestoga College ITAL
• Connie Stevens RN, BScN, MA, PhD (c). Sheridan College ITAL
• Catherine Statton, R. Kin., CHE, BSc, MA, University of Guelph & Sheridan College ITAL
• Shanta Doobay MSc, OCT, Fanshawe College CAA
• Ermelinda Kapo, Sheridan College ITAL
• Jacqueline De Paula, MD, MMSc, DBA, Sheridan College ITAL
• Crystal Frenette MA BScN RN, Sheridan College ITAL
• Kadeem Sampath, MD, Centennial College CAAT
• Saeedeh Akram, PhD, Conestoga College ITAL
• Jennifer Ethier, BScH, MSc, Georgian College CAAT

A special thank you to Jesslyn Wilkinson (OCT, M.Ed candidate, BEd, Hons. BA), Educational Technology Officer, Teaching & Learning at Conestoga College ITAL, for her infectious enthusiasm for OER, support for H5P technology, and asking the question, “are you ready to sprint?”