Research Guides: Open Educational Resources: OER in Canada

eCampus Ontario Open Textbook Library

Ontario's Open Textbook Library features more than 200 quality-reviewed texts available to be freely used, adapted and distributed. They can be downloaded for no cost or printed at low cost. This project is funded by the Ontario government and is a partnership between BCcampus and eCampusOntario.

OCUL OER White Paper

OCUL OER White Paper
Ontario Council of University Libraries conducted an environmental scan and analysis of current activities in open education publishing.

BC Open Campus

British Columbia is Canada's leader in adopting OER. The BC Open Campus program, funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education launched in 2012 with a mandate to create open textbooks for 40 highest enrollment subject areas in province. The program has grown rapidly since then.

BC Open Textbook Stats

Student savings	$3-$4M
Number of B.C. students using open textbooks	35112
Number of B.C. institutions adopting open textbooks	32
Number of B.C. faculty using open textbooks	283
Number of B.C. open textbook adoptions	1071

*as of March 2017. https://open.bccampus.ca/open-textbook-stats/

Campus Manitoba

Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative

Announced in 2015 by Manitoba's education ministry, the initiative features a collection of 180 open textbooks. The initiative includes funding for 25 faculty reviews of the textbooks in the collection.