Further to our discussion about textbook issues with International Students, I had mentioned that it would be so useful if International Students all had the textbook for some key fundamental courses, for example, in the Business Department at NO COST to them. Through my professional development with Ontario Extend from eCampus Ontario, I have learned a lot more about Open Education Resources (OER) and wanted to share a few with you as I understand there is a project going on right now to adapt a popular OER Introductory Business text to the Canadian context.

I have not taught BUS 108 in about 10 years, but the content compares to what I remember. Here is an article about that US text:

Open textbook “Fundamentals of Business” surpasses 100,000 downloads

https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2018/05/univlib-fundofbusiness.html​

BC Campus is the group working on the Canadian adaptation and here is the list of other recommend Business texts on their website:

https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Management

Here is another list of recommended Business OER from Northwest Michigan College

https://nmc.libguides.com/oer/business​

I would love to tell you, and others, more about what I have been learning about Open Education and OER. Maybe some day we can have a ZeroCred program, where all the courses in a program use OER and there are no textbooks costs for student all (other than a few dollars for printing if they wanted to do that).

Thanks Irene