Introduction
Welcome
Welcome to REC 101 – Introduction to Recreation and Leisure Services, created With generous support from a Staebler Insurance OER Fellows Grant.
This course is designed to implement Open Educational Resources (OERs) in place of a traditional textbook.
Navigating this Site
This site has been designed as an interactive digital book. You can navigate through the content in two basic ways:
- Click on the “Contents” tab to the top left to see a table of contents
- Click on the “Next” or “Previous” buttons at the bottom of your browser window to move through page by page.
Objectives
For the whole course, there are four overarching objectives with specific learning outcomes, which are included below, and we cover them throughout the various modules of this course.
What do these learning outcomes mean for what I will learn in this course?
Throughout this course, you will be introduced to and will critically analyze the various organizations and stakeholders involved in recreation and leisure in Canada and beyond, with an eye for sparking your passion!
Readings and Videos
Each chapter in this resource provides course material in a different way, with your ‘readings’ varying from slideshows to blog posts to videos to podcasts. The selected resources in each module are designed to complement one another and provide you with different ways to access overlapping material to prepare you for in-class discussions on that module’s material.
A compiled List of Resources is included at the end of this web-book for ease of reference.
Read/Watch
Look for shaded blue boxes like this one in each chapter of this resource. These call out the reading or viewing that you will need to complete.
Credits, Attribution and Reuse
1. Who developed this resource?
Select to learn more about the developers
2. Am I allowed to reproduce or reuse material from this course elsewhere?
YES! This course is being presented under an Attribution 4.0 International Creative Commons License. This means that you may: Share—copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, Adapt—remix, transform, and build upon the material
3. How do I cite this project?
To cite the entire project, we recommend: Riggin, B., Dickson, B., Kotsopoulos, D., Samuels, B. (2025) Rec 101 [Online Curriculum]. Funded by Staebler Insurance OER Fellowship. Retrieved from: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/rec101/
How to Get the Most Out of this Resource
Select each item to learn more.
Accessibility statement
We developed this course with a commitment to accessibility and usability for all learners. The web version of this resource includes the following accessibility features:
- It has been optimized for people who use screen-reader technology.
- all content can be navigated using a keyboard
- links, headings, and tables are formatted to work with screen readers
- images have alt tags
- Information is not conveyed by colour alone.
- Font size may be increased without the need to scroll horizontally.
The accessibility of this course was assessed by the Centre for Extended Learning, University of Waterloo. This review was based on the WCAG 2.1 Guidelines at success criteria Level AA. The course authors have addressed all known accessibility issues to the best of their abilities.
The following known accessibility issues persist and may cause difficulties for some persons with disabilities:
- External media included embedded videos may not meet all AA success criteria.
