“Education changes lives,” says Sally Vinden Instructor in the Faculty of Trades and Applied Technology at Vancouver Island University (VIU). “As educators, we are the gatekeepers. We need to make sure the pathways are there, and the technology is available to us today that makes learning a lot more accessible to a diverse group of students.” BCcampus defines OER as teaching, learning and research resources that have an open-copyright licence and, through permissions granted by their creator, allow others to use, distribute, keep or make changes to them. “We know books are a huge financial burden for a lot of students and many suffer academically because they don’t have access to a required textbook,” says Vinden.
https://news.viu.ca/removing-barriers-online-learning-trades-students
