5 Adopt, Adapt or Develop
Using or developing OER could involve:
- Adopting a OER for use in a class (using it “as is”)
- Adapting a OER (taking an existing OER and customizing it for your own teaching)
- Developing OER (make something new and put it in the commons)
For adapting or adopting OER, there are a number of catalogues of OER that have been developed. A few of these are:
There are a number of places you can find OER. A few include:
BC Campus Open Textbooks – https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/
Open Textbook Library – https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
eCampus Ontario – https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/
OER Commons – https://www.oercommons.org/
Open Stax – https://openstax.org/subjects
Open Textbook Library – https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
You can also speak with TRU’s Librarians and get help. Contact is at https://libguides.tru.ca/oer
