Contact Us
We support OER initiatives at Concordia University. OER Services include consultations, workshops and events, open textbook grants, access to Pressbooks, and more.
Consultations by Appointment and Drop-in Hours
Interested in the Open Educational Resources Program at Concordia University, which includes our open textbook grants? Book time to meet with Rachel Harris. Dr. Harris is the Scholarly Publishing Library leading the OER Program at Concordia University.
Your subject librarian is also an excellent go-to-person. We have subject librarian specialists across disciplines in the arts and science, engineering and computer science, fine arts, and business.
You may also want to meet with colleagues who have developed open textbook projcts at Concordia University. See our projects.
Workshops & Events
We provide workshops and events during Open Access Week in October and Open Education Week in March. We can offer or co-develop OER workshops with you.
Promoting OER at Concordia University
If you are using an OER in your classroom, get in touch. We want to help promote OER at Concordia.
Access to an Open-Source Publishing Platform
Concordia University Library hosts an instance of Pressbooks and offers related training and consultation services. Widely used in OER initiatives worldwide, Pressbooks is the open-source writing and publishing platform for customizing and creating an open textbook.
Copyediting & Design
Copyediting and design work can be arranged for open textbook projects upon consultation.
| Dr. Rachel Harris Scholarly Publishing Librarian |
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Book time to meet with Rachel Harris. |
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Email for OER-related inquiries and to book an appointment at oer@concordia.ca OR rachel.harris@concordia.ca. |
| Our OER Work-Study Team of students are key contributers to our OER Services. |
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OER Work-Study Students
OER Work-Study Students gain practical and professional experience while working within a team aimed at serving the wider student body. They actively contribute to outreach strategies, support OER grant recipients by trouble-shooting in Pressbooks, and co-develop our open guidebooks, such as our OER Discipline Resource Guide: Concordia University Library (2nd edition).
OER Work-Study Team (current team) |
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| Rahil Kakkad |
OER Instructional Design Assistant Work-Study Student (Summer 2024; Fall 2024) |
| Noémie Sauvé | OER Outreach Assistant Work-Study Student (Fall 2024) |
Zo Kopyna |
OER Writing and Copyediting Assistant Work-Study Student (Fall 2024); assists with outreach and instructional design.
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Instructional Design
In addition to supporting open textbook grant recipients impliment their projects in Pressbooks, the OER team has created and designed a comprehensive User Guide for Pressbooks (currently in draft form) to assist our OER grant recipients in navigating the platform as they work on their projects. This project originated by Sana Ahmad's mockups and is being continued with the work of Rahil Kakkad as part of the OER Team.
Outreach
Examples from our outreach initiatives include Sarah Fakhri social media work (our Outreach Assistant for the Winter 2023 period) have included
OER Discovery Minutes: 449+ views
A great way to get textbooks is through open educational resources!: 451+ views
OERs in Student Action: Promoting Open Education Resources on Campus Presentation
OER Work-Study Team (previous years) |
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| Sana Ahmad | OER Instructional Design Assistant
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| Sarah Fakhri | OER Outreach Assistant (Fall 2022-Summer 2024)
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| Jonnathan Koonings | OER Copyediting Assistant
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| Xaviera Meza-Wong | OER Copyediting Assistant (Fall 2023) |
| Lena Palacios | OER Instructional Design Assistant (Summer 2023; Fall 2023) |