{"id":20,"date":"2018-02-20T22:07:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T03:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/disciplineguide2\/front-matter\/about-this-guide\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T12:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:49:05","slug":"about-this-guide","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/front-matter\/about-this-guide\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction","rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"Concordia faculty members and students are invited to discover Open Educational Resources (OER) that may suit their courses. <em>OER by Discipline Resource Guide: Concordia University, <\/em>second edition, offers a mapping of open textbooks and potentially relevant courses in each department. \u00a0The main sections correspond with Concordia University\u2019s six faculties which are as follows:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Faculty of Arts and Science \u2013 Humanities<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Faculty of Arts and Science \u2013 Sciences<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Faculty of Arts and Science \u2013 Social Sciences<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Faculty of Fine Arts<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science<\/li>\r\n \t<li>John Molson School of Business<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Open Textbook Grants<\/h3>\r\nThere are grants available for Concordia faculty members to adopt or customize an open textbook for Concordia University courses. The grants provide funding to hire Concordia students in support of the work involved in identifying and evaluating, adopting, customizing, or creating open textbooks and revising course content as a result of incorporating a new textbook. To learn more, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/library\/oer\/adopt-create\/oer-grants.html\">OER Grants webpage<\/a>.\r\n<h3>Interested in Getting Involved?<\/h3>\r\nThis guide is being continuously updated as new resources are identified from major OER. In fact, undergraduate students contribute to potential pairings between their courses and existing open textbooks on an annual to biannual basis at our <em>Hunting for Open Educational Resources Suited to Your Discipline <\/em>workshop. If you have additional suggestions, want to contribute, or otherwise get involved, please check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/library\/oer\/get-involved.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OER Get Involved webpage.<\/a>","rendered":"<p>Concordia faculty members and students are invited to discover Open Educational Resources (OER) that may suit their courses. <em>OER by Discipline Resource Guide: Concordia University, <\/em>second edition, offers a mapping of open textbooks and potentially relevant courses in each department. \u00a0The main sections correspond with Concordia University\u2019s six faculties which are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty of Arts and Science \u2013 Humanities<\/li>\n<li>Faculty of Arts and Science \u2013 Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Faculty of Arts and Science \u2013 Social Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Faculty of Fine Arts<\/li>\n<li>Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science<\/li>\n<li>John Molson School of Business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Open Textbook Grants<\/h3>\n<p>There are grants available for Concordia faculty members to adopt or customize an open textbook for Concordia University courses. The grants provide funding to hire Concordia students in support of the work involved in identifying and evaluating, adopting, customizing, or creating open textbooks and revising course content as a result of incorporating a new textbook. To learn more, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/library\/oer\/adopt-create\/oer-grants.html\">OER Grants webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Interested in Getting Involved?<\/h3>\n<p>This guide is being continuously updated as new resources are identified from major OER. In fact, undergraduate students contribute to potential pairings between their courses and existing open textbooks on an annual to biannual basis at our <em>Hunting for Open Educational Resources Suited to Your Discipline <\/em>workshop. If you have additional suggestions, want to contribute, or otherwise get involved, please check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/library\/oer\/get-involved.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OER Get Involved webpage.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":"cc-by"},"front-matter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[52],"class_list":["post-20","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry","license-cc-by"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/20\/revisions\/1278"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/20\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/oerbydiscipline2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}