In the Publishing phase, your project will be submitted to the eCampus Ontario Open Library Portal, presented to various open collections and repositories for dissemination, and indexed in the library catalogue and institutional repository. It is time to integrate your project into the course outline and eConestoga course shell.
At this step the creator(s) will work with the Open Learning team to get your project published to various open collections and repositories.
Creators must complete the adoption form.
Please include the number of sections and students over the school year in your course.
It's time to get the word out! Consider some of the following marketing suggestions. The Open Learning team will also assist in marketing by highlighting your project on our OER Hub and in presentations, as well as posting in the Monday Message Board.
Submit to your School’s monthly newsletter.
Post your project’s link(s) to your social media.
Consider creating an E3 presentation.
Add to your LinkedIn profile.
Once your Open Educational Resources (OER) are published you are ready to integrate into your course and your course outline. It is important to list under Student Resources all OER you are using in your course. Ensure the language in your course outline reflects the OER and report your adoption to eCampusOntario and the OER Hub to ensure student savings are captured.
If the resources are part of an e-text program and you are replacing a previously paid resource, then ensure the Bookstore has been notified in the prior academic year and is aware of when you will begin using the OER.
Next, you will want to hyperlink the OER into your eConestoga course model shell to ensure everyone teaching and learning from the course has access to your OER.
Refer to the Adopt an OER section to see two examples of linking OER in eConestoga.
Considerations for hyperlinking OER textbooks: