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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Information about using open educational resources (OER) at Red Deer Polytechnic.

What is OER?

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources (OER) are "learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others" (UNESCO, 2019).

We can help!

Do you want to... Librarians can...
Find OER for your specific course? Find OER materials for you to review.
Create OER (e.g., open textbook) for a specific course? Guide you through the OER Creation Workflow and set you up on Pressbooks to author your own open textbook.
Mark your course section)s) as ZTC (Zero Textbook Cost) in the Timetable? Walk you through the process of applying the ZTC attribute.

Connect with your Subject Librarian to get started!

OER @ RDP

Life Skills Training Modules

by Dr. Candi Raudebaugh

19th Century European Art History

by Megan Bylsma, co-created by ART 305 students

Pre-Confederation Textbook

HIST 373

with Dr. Stéphane-D. Perreault

Post-Confederation Textbook

HIST 374

with Dr. Stéphane-D. Perreault

Child, Family, and Community

ELCC 308

with Claudia Sasse

Freedom of the Will

by Dr. Daniel Haas