The Collection
Relevant Materials for B.C. Educators
The B.C. Open Collection is a curated selection of open educational resources (OER) that can be accessed by educators in B.C. and beyond to use in the classroom, in an institutional learning management system, or on other teaching and learning platforms.
All materials are openly licensed. This means they are free to use, customize, and share.
The collection includes courses and textbooks, and new resources are being added all the time. To find out when new OER are added to the collection in your subject area, subscribe to the BCcampus newsletter.
Textbook Quality
Textbook Evaluation Process
Before a new open textbook is posted to the B.C. Open Collection, it is evaluated to ensure it meets our quality standards.
This evaluation has three parts:
- Minimum-criteria evaluation.
- Subject-matter evaluation.
- Accessibility evaluation.
To see the collection criteria and evaluation process, go to Suggest a Textbook.
Course Quality
Course Review Process
The collection contains several full courses that were developed by B.C. educators and are openly licensed and ready for use.
All courses in the collection are reviewed by an instructional designer using the Course Quality Framework [Word]. This framework represents our best current thinking about essential factors for course quality, including:
- First Peoples Principles of Learning [PDF],
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles,
- Accessibility, and
- Representation [PDF]
The instructional designer works with the course developer to make any necessary changes to the course to pass the course quality review.