Our OER Team
Authors’ Biographies
Rachel Harris
Rachel leads Concordia University’s Open Educational Resources program and collaborates on open-access projects and services, including work related to our institutional repository, Spectrum, ORCID, and OA publishing. Working with and mentoring OER work-study students is one of the joys of open educational work at Concordia. A special thanks to Sana Ahmad and Lena Palacios for their work on our Pressbooks Guide, specifically for their keenness to learn new software and their desire to share insights on what optimizing Pressbooks looks like. Together, our aim is to help and inspire Pressbooks users in their open textbook projects in an easy-to-follow, multi-media, and interactive guidebook.
Sana Ahmad
Sana is an MA Educational Technology student at Concordia University. During her time as OER Instructional Design Assistant at Concordia Library (Sept. 2022-June 2023), Sana honed her education technology skills. Sana brings a passion for crafting impactful open educational resources and learning experiences from her current degree and her information-studies background. Learning about Pressbooks from multiple sources, especially YouTube videos, and receiving H5P questions from open-textbook grant recipients, led to Sana’s contributions to the overall design of this practical guide for users.
Lena Palacios, MA, PhD
Lena is pursuing a second BA in Creative Writing, First Peoples Studies, and Irish Studies at Concordia Studies. She/they enjoyed their time so much learning from and collaborating alongside the OER Team while working as an OER Instructional Design Assistant (Pressbooks). They now want to become an academic librarian specializing in User Experience (UX) design and specialize in critical race theory, ethnic studies, Indigenous studies, and women’s and gender studies.
