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OER Development & Maintenance
The TRU Open Press will support faculty and staff in developing, maintaining, and updating open education resources.
Open Education Resources can…
Make Content Co-Creation Easier!
- Using TRU hosted open publishing tools, faculty can collaborate with each other, students, or staff to co-create open content
Cut Learning Material Costs
- Open resources are free to students, and the Open Press would like to see them used, as much as possible, in TRU classrooms
Be High Quality
- Contact the Open Press about peer review processes during development, and copyediting and production standards that the Press upholds
OER Example
GERM 1111: Introductory German 1
This course resource site allows learners to develop cultural knowledge and communicative skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing in modern standard German.
- Makes excellent use of H5P interactive activities for self-guided practice.
- Embeds video and audio clips.
- Built using the Ascend theme, H5P and Gravity Forms plugins.
Experiential Learning Opportunities
The Open Press provides opportunities for students to develop their skills in a professional context.
Partnership with Department of Communications & Visual Arts
The Open Press has partnered with the TRU’s Department of Communications and Visuals Arts to provide learning and job opportunities for students within these degrees.
Public Relations & Communications Design Majors
The Open Press will count towards the 3 credit experiential learning requirement in these majors for the next 3-5 years. Additionally, an opportunity for course-based projects telated to design and publication could be explored.
Potential Skills
- Communications design
- Marketing
- New media
- Public relations
- Digital content production
- Graphic design
- Layout
- Writing & editing
Current Projects
Click on the tabs below to see what the TRU Open Press is working on right now.
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