About this Guide

Welcome to Conestoga College’s OER by Discipline Guide!

Purpose

“The problem with open educational resources is that I feel like we’re in such a large pool, and I can’t find anything with my small spoon.” – Marie-Cécile Domecq, Research Librarian (Health Sciences), University of Ottawa (2020)

Searching for OER can be a daunting and time-consuming task. It has been identified as an ongoing challenge by instructors and librarians alike. This guide was developed with the goal of facilitating the discovery and use of OER at Conestoga College by presenting faculty, staff, and students with suggestions for free and open teaching and learning resources in their subject areas.

This guide was heavily inspired by the one created at the University of Ottawa, McMaster University, and others (see Credits). Like other lists of this type, it is not comprehensive and will continue to be a work in progress.

If you are already using an open educational resource in your course, please share your adoption with us so they can be included in this guide by completing the adoption form. This Microsoft form will automatically collect your Conestoga email address and the associated name. If you have other OER to suggest, please do so through the Suggestions, Comments, and Corrections form.

We hope that as members of the Conestoga community, you will find this guide (and its French version) helpful as you consider the options available for quality, open educational resources for your courses.

Attribution Statement

This section is a derivative of Brunet, M., & Lachaîne, C. (2022). About this guide. In OER by Discipline Guide: University of Ottawa (Version 2.0 – June 2022). Pressbooks. Licensed for reuse under CC BY 4.0.