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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.
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.
This content was derived from Elizabeth Yates' Open Educational Resources guide, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.