Canada's BC Campus - Open Educational Resources

BCcampus Executive Director Mary Burgess says their work in Open has been effective because they have addressed various concerns and customized their messaging. “As much as we focus on working with students, we’ve also done a lot of work on the academic side with peer reviews of the work so the quality question is ruled out as soon as they have a look at the book,” Burgess says. While the appeal of OER for students is the price, she knows to emphasize pedagogical freedom and control of resources to faculty. Talking to administrators, the pitch for Open highlights statistics showing students using open textbooks stay enrolled in courses longer. https://sparcopen.org/our-work/innovator/bccampus/