The Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries (CAAL-CBPA) is delighted to announce this year's recipients of the AtlanticOER Development Grants. These grants provide financial support for educators in publicly funded post-secondary institutions in the Atlantic region with the creation and adaptation of new OER. With funding from the four provincial governments of the Atlantic region, this year's recipients are creating and adapting exciting new projects that provide diverse, localized content for students in the Atlantic region which will be free to use and access.
The 2026 recipients are:
Ami Goulden, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Tier: Creating Ancillary Materials
Project: The Academic Integrity Module for Undergraduate Social Work Students is a series of asynchronous learning modules designed to teach social work students at Memorial University key skills related to academic integrity. The modules will highlight the relationship between academic integrity and ethical practices in social work, providing students with learning materials tailored to the unique needs of social work students.
Erin Mazerolle, St. Francis Xavier University
Tier: Adaptation
Team: Sherry Neville-MacLean, Luke Gosse, Jennifer Stamp (Dalhousie), Ian Weaver (Dalhousie)
Project: This project is a collaboration between educators at St. Francis Xavier and Dalhousie University, and seeks to update the textbook Open Neuroscience Initiative. The goal of this project is to highlight the intersections between neuroscience and diverse, intersecting identities. The newly updated text will explore how prejudice, systemic bias, and discrimination impact all aspects of neuroscience, from research design to application.
Elvira Pusaczyk, St. Francis Xavier University
Tier: Adaptation
Project: The goal of this project is to adapt the open textbook, Principles of Social Psychology, to integrate Indigenous perspectives and content. The newly added content will integrate Indigenous ways of knowing, cultural concepts, and research conducted by Indigenous psychologists. The project also aims to integrate non-North American scholarship and to highlight contributions to the field of psychology from women, non binary, BIPOC, and 2SLGBTQIA+ psychologists.
Felix Odartey-Wellington, Cape Breton University
Tier: Adaptation
Team: Shauna MacDonald, Sarah MacRae, Carly Turnbull, Grace MacNeil, Shannon Landers
Project: This project will consolidate and adapt several open educational resources focused on public speaking to create a unified, openly licensed resource for the Cape Breton University course Introduction to Public Communication. Building on CBU’s longstanding tradition of excellence in speech communication, the project will integrate instructional materials developed through the Dr. Mary A. Lynch Communication Lab, one of the university’s signature sites for experiential communication training. These materials will support hands‑on lab activities led by trained peer facilitators, enhancing accessibility and ensuring consistent, high‑quality learning experiences across course sections.
Gerald Tembrevilla, Mount Saint Vincent University
Tier: Creation of a new OER
Team: Michael Bowen, Don Haas
Project: This project aims to create sign language-supported climate change learning materials for teacher education. The materials will be grounded in relevant, local contexts for Atlantic Canada, focusing on marine and agricultural contexts in the region. A Deaf education specialist and sign language expert, together with the project team’s STEM and teacher education expertise, will help ensure the project is accessible, relevant, and pedagogically strong.
Nina Bernard-Tran, Nova Scotia Community College
Tier: Creation of a new OER
Team: Ellie Bernard-Tran, Beverly Buchanan
Project: This project aims to create an OER for the Deaf Interpreter program at NSCC. The resource will integrate content that is relevant to all 14 courses in the program, and include embedded interactive activities such as quizzes and knowledge checks to support student engagement and active learning.
Terra Tailleur, University King's College
Tier: Creation of Ancillary Materials
Project: This project will provide profiles on approximately ten different local news organizations, all using a variety of platforms, to support journalism students in their education. The goal of this multimedia resource is to help provide students with a deeper understanding of the news ecosystem in Canada, especially the Atlantic region.