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Completed OER by Faculty/Subject Area

Cree Language Resources

Textbook: Cree Dictionary of Mathematical Terms with Visual Examples

Authors: Arzu Sardarli and Ida Swan (FNUniv)

Description: provides Cree equivalents of 176 mathematics terms and their definitions in English. The visual examples mainly contain Indigenous elements. The Dictionary was reviewed by Elders, Indigenous Knowledge Keepers and Cree-speaking educators.

Textbook: Cree: Language of the Plains / nēhiyawēwin: paskwāwi-pīkiskwēwin

Author: Jean L. Okimasis

Description: This comprehensive educational resource offers a broad range of learning materials that is easily accessible to Cree language learners. This collection includes an updated and redesigned Cree language textbook, Cree language audio labs, labs user guide, and a Cree language workbook. (Audio Labs in Pressbooks format)

Faculty of Arts

Arts

Edited Book: Listening as a Shared and Social Practice

Editors: Lindsey French and Kate Joranson

Description: An understanding of listening as deeply relational frames the materials gathered in this book, grew out of a Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies (GLASS) conference held in October 2022 on the theme of “Listening as a Shared and Social Practice.” Responding to a turn in sound studies that centers the role of listening, this volume considers the co-constitutive nature of listening through an edited collection of essays and activities that prompt us to notice and listen more deeply.

Economics/Sustainable Development

Edited Book: Free Knowledge: Confronting the Commodification of Human Discovery

Editors: Patricia W. Elliott and Daryl H. Hepting

Description: Composed of essays from academics, farmers, Indigenous Knowledge keepers, and others, Free Knowledge introduces readers to the increasing commercialization of public knowledge for private profit.

Knowledge privatization holds growing sway over the choice of the foods you eat, the medicine you take, the software you use, the music you hear, and even the flowers you plant in your own backyard. This is the result of a world where plant seeds have become subject to patents, medical research is overseen by pharmaceutical giants, universities are beholden to corporate funders, and indigenous knowledge is expropriated.

Gender Studies

Edited Book: Global Femicide: Indigenous Women and Girls Torn from Our Midst (2nd Ed.).

Editors: Brenda Anderson, Shauneen Pete, Wendee Kubik, and Mary Rucklos-Hampton

Description: This book lays out our Canadian stories alongside the global phenomenon of femicide in other colonized countries such as Mexico and Guatemala, this book underscores the common, interlocking effects of racism and sexism on Indigenous women.

Peer reviewed: ☑

History

Edited book (student essays): Canada and Speeches from the Throne: Narrating a Nation, 1935-2015

Authors: Raymond Blake with graduate and undergraduate student authors: Alexander Washkowsky, Braden Sapara, Brady Dean, Sarah Hoag, Rebecca Morris-Hurl, Dayle Steffen, Joshua Switzer, and Deklen Wolbaum

Description: This collection of student essays describes how Canadian Prime Ministers articulated their vision of Canada from 1935 to 2015 through their Speeches from the Throne and in their Leaders' Day speeches.

History

Edited book (student essays): Canada and the Challenges of Leadership: How Canadian Prime Ministers have Responded to Crises at Home and Abroad

Editors: Raymond Blake's students Kelsey Lonie, Jonathon Zimmer, and Corey Safinuk

Description: This text is a collection of essays which examine various Prime Ministers through their management of crises.

Textbook: Living Heritage in Saskatchewan: Twelve Recent Projects

Editors: Jérôme Melançon and Christin Catherwood

Description: This book presents twelves projects of living heritage safeguarding and promotion that have recently taken place in Saskatchewan.

Justice Studies

Edited Book (Student essays): Decolonization and Justice: An Introductory Overview

Editor: Muhammad Asadullah

Authors: Charmine Cortez, Geena Holding, Hamza Said, Jenna Smith, Kayla Schick, Kudzai Mudyara, Megan Korchak, Nicola Kimber, Noor Shawush, and Stephanie Dyck

Description: This text emerged from the undergraduate students’ final assignment in Justice Studies 419. This book focuses on decolonization of multiple justice-related areas, such as policing, the court system, prison, restorative justice, and the studies of law and criminology.

Edited book: Being Together: A Living Land Acknowledgement for oskana kâ-asastêki / Regina

Editors: Emily Grafton and Jérôme Melançon

Description: This resource features discussions about traditional ways of life developed in the area surrounding oskana kâ-asastêki / Regina; the genocide that was meant to destroy them; the treaties that were signed to establish ways of being together with the land but served instead to establish Canadian domination; and the challenges and joys of cultural and linguistic revitalization. They are complemented by further resources, including a reflection on the possibilities opened by the idea of living land acknowledgements.

Coming soon:

Edited book: Canadian Settler Colonialism: Reliving the Past, Opening New Paths

Editors: Emily Grafton, Jérôme Melançon, Alyssa Parker, and Ibukun Fasunhan

Description: The contributions in this volume highlight how the Canadian settler state affects different groups of people: Indigenous peoples, first and foremost, but also new migrants as well as long-established settlers. Each contribution is an act of solidarity among these groups, against the segregation academic disciplines tend to create. The contributors study attitudes and ideas as well as laws, policies, and processes that make settler colonialism and genocide possible, reinforce them, and justify them.

Memoir: Perfect Timing – Recollections of Coping with Cancer During a Pandemic

Author: Barbara Reul

Description: This book is an educational, entertaining, and highly personal memoir written during a global pandemic. It provides an insightful snapshot of the occasionally bumpy yet spiritually transformative cancer journey of a middle-aged, immigrant, and non-partnered academic living in a sunny Canadian prairie province.

Memoir: Right on Time – Healing from Cancer During a Pandemic

Author: Barbara Reul

Description: This book chronicles the eventful and highly transformative time of healing and reflection following cancer treatments that the author – a middle-aged, immigrant, and non-partnered university professor from Regina, Saskatchewan – spent on the West Coast of Canada to be near family during the pandemic.

Music History

Translated book: The Diaries and Selected Letters of Jeanne Demessieux

Translators: Stacey Brown and Lynn Cavanagh

Description: This publication provides French-to-English translations with annotations for the diaries and selected letters of French organist-composer Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968), Accompanying chapters introduce the context in which the diaries and letters were written or comment on their content.

Faculty of Business Administration

Adapted Textbook: Cost Accountin g

Adaptor: Bill Bonner

Description: This book combines chapters from several OER sources. It includes an introduction to the idea of cost accounting and challenges over time that led to the development of cost accounting concepts or events that called them into question.

Textbook: Financial Empowerment: Personal Finance for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People

Author: Bettina Schneider (FNUniv)

Description: This book is designed for a single-semester introduction to financial planning and decision-making, in order to provide first and second-year students with the necessary financial literacy and skills needed to make sound financial decisions, assess financial risk, and achieve financial success.

Peer Reviewed ☑

Second edition (peer reviewed) coming soon!

Faculty of Education

Education

Website with videos and documents: Assessment in Saskatchewan Website

Creators: Cristyne Hébert with students and teachers

Description: Video Series with students interviewing teachers on their assessment practices.

Higher Education

Edited book: Dissendent Knowledge in Higher Education

Editors: James McNinch and Marc Spooner

Description: This book brings together some of the leading authorities in the field of Higher Education, including Marie Battiste, Noam Chomsky, Yvonna S. Lincoln, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith. It is geared towards courses that focus on methodology, colonialism, Indigenous research and knowledge, and theories of change.

Peer reviewed: ☑

Faculty of Science

Mathematics

Workbook: Math 111/ Calculus II (3rd ed.)

Authors: Robert Petry, Fotini Labropulu & Iqbal Husain.

Description: This resource was developed from a Calculus II coursebook from an existing set of open-access resources. The authors' goal was to bring this coursebook to the standard of an existing Calculus I coursebook so that it could be more widely used across Math 111 sections.

Biology

Dissection Video Series: Lamprey, Dogfish, Mexican Perch, Bullfrog, Pigeon, Mink

Creator: Mel Hart

Description: A series of dissection videos showing how to dissect Lamprey, Dogfish, Mexican Perch, Bullfrog, Pigeon, and Mink. These are excellent teaching resources to help students prepare for labs without prohibitive costs associated with the learning.

Geology

Manual: An Introduction to Geological Field Trips: Case Study Avonlea Badlands, Saskatchewan

Authors: Monica Cliveti and Maria Velez

Description: This manual is an inspirational step-by-step guide for how to prepare for a geological field trip.

Computer Science

Computer Sciences Lab website: CS 100 & CS 110

Creator: Guili Liu

Description: These Lab pages teach hands-on coding in multiple programming languages via examples and lab assignments. The project includes the following: Test-banks, colourized code-block segments of sample code, FAQs, illustrations and screenshots, and video tutorials.

Faculty of Social Work

Edited book: Rural and Northern Social Work Practice: Examples within a Canadian Context (2nd ed.)

Editors: Bonnie Jeffery and Nuelle Novik

Description: This 2nd edition has benefited from peer reviews. It has a new title, reflecting more closely the themes within. Intended for use in undergraduate courses, the book highlights the contextual foundation of social work practice with rural and northern communities by addressing the importance of place using anti-oppressive perspectives.

Peer Reviewed ☑

Textbook:Rural and Northern Social Work Practice: Canadian Perspectives

Editors: Bonnie Jeffery and Nuelle Novik

Description: This book highlights the contextual foundation of social work practice with rural and northern communities by addressing the importance of place using anti-oppressive perspectives.

Faculty of Nursing

Edited book: Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing

Editor: Joan Wagner

Description: This book is designed for a single-semester introduction to the professional nurse’s leadership role as both a care provider and a formal leader. These diverse voices from Saskatchewan's and Canada's nursing leadership are focused on providing student nurses with the foundational tools, techniques, and knowledge required to empower them to meet the leadership challenges found within the incessantly changing Canadian health care environment.

Supplementary resource: Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing (PPT)

Peer reviewed ☑

Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy

Case Studies: Public Policy Case Studies

Creators: Jim Farney, Martin Boucher and Jamie Mayoh-Bauche

Description: This OER includes videos and written content exploring four Canadian public policy and administration case studies. The cases are The Opioid Epidemic, The Phoenix Pay System, Canada's Affordable Housing Crises, and the Transmountain Pipeline Expansion.

Power Point Slide Series: Consumers, Producers, and the Market

Creator: Iryna Khovrenkov

OEP Program and Archer Library

The University of Regina OER by Subject Directory

Authors: Arlysse Quiring, Isaac Mulolani, and Shuana Niessen

Description: This book is designed to help University of Regina faculty easily discover open educational resources (OER) for their courses. It is primarily a list of open textbooks organized by faculty and department at the University of Regina, but other OER such as videos may also be included. The guide will be continuously updated as new resources are identified and created across the OER ecosystem.

Tools for Creating OER: Selecting appropriate Technologies

Author: Isaac Mulolani

Description: This book is intended to provide the OER creators with a summary of some currently available tools for creating open content, providing a starting point for instructors and faculty at post-secondary institutions.