Open Educational Resources

Robertson Library provides students with different printing and scanning options

3D Printing - The Library's 3D printing is no longer available at this time, email 3dlibrary@upei.ca for questions.

Scanning

Ask staff for help.
Save to a USB stick or
send to an email address.

Scanning is free.

Group and individual study rooms are available for quietly studying or working on assignments.

Group Study Rooms: 260-261 (in Collaboratory), upstairs: 306, 330, 341-350
Group size: 2-8 people (306 can hold larger groups, ask at the Service Desk)
Time per use: 3-hour block

Individual Study Rooms: 331-336 (yellow rooms)
Time per use: 3-hour block

Research Study Rooms: 320-327
Note: Research rooms are not bookable; please ask at the Service Desk, you will need your UPEI Campus Card to sign out the key
Time per use: 3-hour block

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Most group study rooms are equipped with computer
LCD Panel Displays: 4 group study rooms (346, 347, 349, 350) are equipped with LCD wall-mounted panel displays.
White Boards: most group study rooms are equipped with white boards
Most group rooms will accommodate up to 6 persons
Study rooms are no longer locked, leaving personal material unattended is at the student's own risk
Study rooms are not soundproofed. Groups using these rooms are asked to please close doors and keep conversations at a considerate noise level
Please clean up as you leave - there is no housekeeping service between bookings

Find an appropriate study zone, for yourself or a group, if the study rooms are unavailable.

What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?

Creative Commons defines Open Education Resources (OER) as educational materials that are licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission for users to retain, revise, remix, reuse, and redistribute those materials. These uses are commonly referred to as 5R activities:

Retain – make, own, and control a copy of the resource
Revise – edit, adapt, and modify your copy of the resource
Remix – combine your original or revised copy of the resource with other existing material to create something new
Reuse – use your original, revised, or remixed copy of the resource publicly
Redistribute – share copies of your original, revised, or remixed copy of the resource with others

One of the key benefits of OERs is that they reduce barriers to access, reducing the economic burden that students may face when purchasing textbooks or other educational materials. Depending on the license applied OER can be used, adapted, and/or re-mixed by the user to suit the needs of the instructor and the students.

OER Development Program

The Open Education Resource (OER) Development Program is a suite of services and tools offered by the Robertson Library to assist faculty in developing and publishing Open Educational Resources (OERs) through:

a free, online publishing platform, Pressbooks
grants for the creation, adaptation, adoption, and review of OERs
education and resources on OER topics, such as creative commons or finding openly licensed materials
recognition of UPEI faculty who have selected open textbooks or open educational materials for their course(s) through the Faculty Textbooks Champions

Pressbooks	Grants	Education & Resources	Textbooks Champions
Pressbooks Platform Request an Account UPEI Pressbooks Catalogue	Grant Information, Applications, and Forms	OER: Textbooks OER: Journals OER: Course Materials OER: Repositories OER: Open Data OER: Images OER: Videos OER: License OER: List of Resources OER: Additional Information	2021 Textbook Champions