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The Engineering Collaboration for Online and Remote Education (E-CORE)
E-CORE Quick Guides
These quick 2-page documents have been reviewed through the E-CORE / CIEL Network to ensure a high quality of information and a concise, easy-to-follow guide.
E-CORE Webinar Recordings
Click on the webinar of interest, from there each link will take you to a Google Drive folder containing the slides and an audio recording of the session. Visit our Events page to see upcoming Webinars, or check back here after each event to find the recordings.
Session Facilitators: Greg Evans (UofT) and Brian Frank (Queen’s University)
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021, 1:00PM – 2:00PM (EDT)
Session Facilitators: Kristina Edström and Jakob Kuttenkeuler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Monday, March 22, 2021, 11:00AM – 12:30PM (EDT)
You must request access to view these slides and the audio recording. To request access, please contact the E-CORE/CIEL Project at ecore@ceea-aceg.ca.
Session Facilitators: Patti Dyjur and Patrick Kelly (Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary)
Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 11:00AM – 12:30PM (EST)
Session Facilitators: Melissa Fernandes (UofT) and Cori Hanson (UofT)
Thursday, September 3, 2020, 1:00 – 2:30pm (EDT)
Session Facilitators: Janna Rosales (MUN) and Andrew Safer (Safer Mindfulness, Inc.)
Monday, August 31, 2020, 12:30 – 2:00pm (EDT)
Session Facilitators: Brian Frank (Queen’s), Carol Jaeger (UBC), and Pete Ostafichuk (UBC)
Thursday, August 27, 2020, 2:00 – 3:30pm (EDT)
E-CORE Course Materials Links
The tables below contain links to course material in the form of Open Educational Resources (OERs). These course materials have been developed with the intention to share broadly and are shared under Creative Commons Licensing. For more information, see the E-CORE Quick Guide on OERs and Creative Commons Licensing.
Click on the headings below to expand the table of relevant links. If you have suggestions for links to add to any of these sections, please contact the chair of OER, Claire Yan at yu.yan@ubc.ca.
A common question when first looking for OERs for a course, is “how will I know if these resources are right for my needs, and my students’ needs?”. The following rubrics and checklists help to identify important aspects of materials you find online.
| Rubric | Description |
|---|---|
| Open Education Resource Repository (OERR) Rubric | Developed by the BCOER Librarians Working Group to provide a process of evaluating open education resource repositories. |
| Faculty Checklist for Evaluating Course Materials | From Open Oregon Educational Resources. A 2-page checklist to assess whether the materials or platform you are considering for adoption will meet student needs. |
| Achieve OER rubrics | Achieve, a nonprofit education organization, developed this evaluation system for objects found within Open Education Resources. |
| Accessibility checklist for OER | A checklist with additional accessibility resources to help you curate OER. Developed by The Learning Portal and adapted from the BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit. |
| Course Material | Institution | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Course Books Collection | University of Alberta | A collection of books and packaged notes and interactive examples covering a wide variety of engineering topics, including: |
| Electrical Engineering Videos | University of Alberta | A series of videos on various electrical engineering topics, including: |
| Civil Engineering Videos | University of Alberta | Videos created by undergraduate students in Civil engineering, covering: |
| Chemical Engineering Videos | University of Alberta | Videos covering the basics of thermodynamics for chemical engineers: Thermodynamics Videos |
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| An open online homework system that auto-grades calculation, formula, and other types of problems. Primarily math problems, but a sizable collection of engineering and physics (OpenStax) problems have been created. Topics include Statics, Dynamics, Solid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Circuit Analysis, Electromagnetism, Signals and Systems, and more. | |
| OER Commons CEEA-ACEG group | Group for collecting, organizing, and sharing engineering content on the larger OER Commons repository. Anyone can submit content to this group, either your own work or openly-licensed material authored by someone else. |
| MIT OpenCourseWare | A wide range of open content from MIT courses, including slides, exams, videos, assignments, projects, etc. Covers a wide range of engineering topics/courses, although each has varying amounts of content. Sample topics include mechanics, transport processes, project management, robotics, transportation engineering and much more. |
| MERLOT | An open repository of the California State University System. Contains a wide range of materials, including slides, exams, videos, projects, assignments, etc. Examples include: a control engineering textbook, a video series on software engineering, and a bridge design simulation. |
| Mason OER Metafinder | The Mason OER Meta finder helps people find Open Educational Resources in real time and searches across 21 different sources of open educational materials. |
| Interactive H5P content | eCampusOntario H5P Studio is a portal where educators can create, share, and discover interactive learning objects. This site uses H5P, an open source plugin, to allow content authors to easily create interactive content for their courses or other instructional projects. |
| E-Campus Ontario Open Library | The eCampusOntario Open Library provides educators and learners with access to more than 250 free and openly-licensed educational resources. |
| BCcampus Open Textbooks | BCcampus has a collection of faculty-reviewed open textbooks available for anyone to use. Limited engineering content, but includes topics such as fundamentals of electrical engineering, engineering computation with MATLAB, and simulation labs for thermodynamics. |
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Faculty OER Toolkit | Guide for faculty on adapting, adopting and evaluating OER. |
| Accessibility Toolkit | Guide for faculty on making open learning materials accessible to everyone (instructions on creating materials for screen readers, etc.). |
| Trousse d’outils d’accessibilité pour les manuels scolaires ouvert | [French translation of the accessibility toolkit] |
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| LearnChemE | Instructor and student resources in a variety of chemical engineering areas |
| PHET simulations | Physics, Chemistry and Math (and more) simulations – mostly first-year, but includes some topics like rotating frames motion. Coded in Java, Flash, etc., they can be embedded in web pages. |
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CAChE) Teaching Resources | A list of resources by topic area, some are open and others are not. |
| IIT Virtual Labs | Virtual labs (simulations, lab manuals, review questions, etc. giving a complete university-level lab) covering a range of engineering topics. Run in web browser on the IIT site (no download or embedding needed). |
E-CORE Guides
These resources do not necessarily follow the same Quick Guide format (e.g. longer or shorter than 2 pages, not reviewed through E-CORE Network, etc.), but they provide more detailed information on important topics related to online and remote education in a high-quality format.
E-CORE Checklists
Succinct checklists on important topics related to online instruction in engineering education that can be used by instructors across disciplines.
