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Grant Project Recipients

2024 Recipients 
Dr. Cynthia Alexander,Department of Politics, Acadia University

Tier: Creation Grant

Project: The goal of this project is to create an interdisciplinary textbook that centers a decolonizing approach to public policy, amplifying Indigenous experts’ policy approaches and priorities. The project is reflective of over a decade of collaborative and community based research, including community service learning initiatives undertaken in partnership with Mi’kmaq and Inuit of Nunavut. The resulting textbook will be used to support both students at Acadia and students at Nova Scotia Community College.

Team: Dr. Beverly McKee, School of Health and Human Services, Nova Scotia Community College

Courses: Pols 2003 Introduction to Public Policy (Acadia); POLS 4803/5803 Canadian Public Policy (Acadia); PRNS 2018 Health Promotion and Community Nursing (NSCC); PRNS Introduction to Nursing (NSCC)
Dr. Yigit Aydede, Sobey School of Business and Economics, Saint Mary’s University

Tier: Creation Grant

Project: This project aims to create a new, interactive open textbook that will be used to teach upper level undergraduate students in business and social science the foundational data analytics skills in R and Python. The textbook will integrate practical programming skills that will allow students to apply machine learning techniques directly to real-world issues they encounter in their fields of study.

Courses: MGSC 1207 Introduction to Data Analytics for Business; MGSC 2207 Introductory Statistics; ECON 3303 Intermediate Economic Statistics; ECON 4498 Research Seminar in Economics
Dr. Karen Brebner, Department of Psychology, Saint Francis Xavier University

Tier: Adaptation Grant

Project: The goal of this project is to adapt and expand upon the book, Open Neuroscience Initiative. The project aims to add a lab manual, supplement existing content, and create chapter assignments with both student and expert feedback in mind.

Team: Dr. Erin Mazerolle Department of Psychology, StFX, Sherry Neville-MacLean, Department of Psychology, StFX

Courses: PSYC 231 Brain and Behaviour I; PSYC 232 Brain and Behaviour II
André Davey, School of Access, Education, and Language, Nova Scotia Community College

Tier: Adaptation Grant

Project: The goal of this project is to adapt an open Math textbook to make it suitable for teaching Health Mathematics. Current options for OER focused on Math do not meet the learning outcomes for students who take Health Mathematics. This textbook will provide better access for future Licensed Practical Nurses to interactive learning materials with Nova Scotia based case studies.

Courses: Math 1048, Math 1049 Health Mathematics; Math 1025 Health Math Extension from Graduate Math IV
Dr. Elizabeth Jewett, Director of Extended Learning, Mount Allison University

Tier: Creation Grant

Project: The goal of this project is to create an introductory Canadian Studies textbook that makes use of a variety of media types and knowledges to support different styles of learning. The textbook will provide to a range of audiences inside and outside the university a comprehensive interdisciplinary introduction to Canada and to critical Canadian Studies that seeks to restructure how narratives of Canada are discussed to emphasize the different ways of knowing, seeing, and experiencing this country.

Team: Andrew Nurse, Acting Director of Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University, Elizabeth Miller Public Services and Special Collections Librarian at Mount Allison University

Courses: CANA 1001 Contemporary Canada: An Introduction; CANA 1011 Representing Canada
Dr. Laura Lambe, Department of Psychology, Saint Francis Xavier University

Tier: Creation Grant

Project: The goal of this project is to create a comprehensive textbook on Introductory Clinical Psychology for undergraduate students. Graduate students from Atlantic Canada will be invited to contribute to this book on their areas of expertise. The project team seeks to create a resource that integrates EDI principles and Canadian content, and to garner feedback from students on their experience with the newly developed OER.

Team: Dr. Angela Weaver, Department of Psychology, StFX

Course: PSYC 379 Introduction to Clinical Psychology
Hannah Rosborough, Instruction and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Sir James Dunn Library, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

Tier: Creation Grant

Project: The goal of this project is to create a Legal Citation Guide that will benefit students and legal professionals. This accessibly designed resource will include commonly cited primary and secondary sources, including explanations of specific components of legal citation and a glossary of legal sources. It will also provide guidance tailored to law students on formatting for legal documents and major papers.

Course: LAWS 1014/1024 Legal Research and Writing
Dr. Mo Snyder, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Acadia University

Tier: Adaptation Grant

Project: The goal of this project is to revise, update, and add material to the open textbook “Geological Structures: A Practical Introduction”. This textbook combines theoretical, practical, and experiential learning to further enrich the geoscience learning experience for students

Team: Dr. John Waldron, Acadia University

Courses: GEOL 3603 Structural Geology and Tectonics; EAS 233 Geological Structures
Matthew Walker, School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie University

Tier: Creation Grant

Project: The goal of this project is to create a textbook entitled Devised Theatre Tools for Actor Training, which seeks to articulate how devised methods and collaborative models can serve the actor in training. The collaborative nature of Devised training seeks to give actors greater autonomy and thereby can empower them as artists. The book will also aim to provide each artist with the agency to determine the parts of their own complex identity they wish to represent in their work.

Team: Sara Graham, Accessibility Consultant

Courses: THEA 1801, THEA 1802, THEA 2801, THEA 2802, THEA 3801, THEA 3802, THEA 4801, THEA 4802

2023 Recipients

Prof. Neil Cody, Faculty, School of Business and Creative Industries, Nova Scotia Community College
Project: The goal of this project is to enhance the offer of the existing OER used in the Foundations of Entrepreneurship class through the creation of additional resources and supplemental materials.

Other Team Members: Luella Legge, Faculty, School of Business and Creative Industries, Nova Scotia Community College; Student Writer/ Editor (TBD); and Lynn MacGregor, Copyright Officer, Nova Scotia Community College

Course: ENTR 2000: Foundations of Entrepreneurship
Dr. Eva Curry, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Acadia University
Project: The goal of this project is to produce an OER textbook and instructional videos, indexed question bank and activities, and study skills resources for students that will align with current calculus courses.

Other Team Members: Dr. Ayman Aljarrah, Assistant Professor, School of Education, Acadia University; Caroline Cochran, Instructor & MASH Coordinator, Acadia University

Course: Math 1013: Calculus and Math 1023: Calculus 2
Dr. Tracy Everitt, Assistant Professor, Nutrition Department, St. Francis Xavier University
Project: The goal of this project is to revise and expand content in the open textbook, Nutrition and Aging.

Course: HNU 425: Nutrition in Aging
Prof. Nicholas Phillips, Faculty, School of Business and Creative Industries, Nova Scotia Community College
Project: The goal of this project is to develop an OER that captures the essence of Etuaptmumk – two eyed seeing, as it relates to land-based knowledge; with both Mi’kmaq and Settler ideology gathered in a single document.

Other Team Members: Justin West, Faculty, School of Access Education and Language, Nova Scotia Community College; Moashella Shortte, Faculty, School of Access Education and Language, Nova Scotia Community College; and Matthew Sampson, Faculty, School of Access Education and Language, Nova Scotia Community College

Course: ECSP 2205: Land Based Curriculum for the Outdoor Learning Environment
Dr. Jantina Toxopeus, Assistant Professor, Biology Department, St. Francis Xavier University
Project: The goal of this project is to develop a textbook on the biology of cell stress with a focus on how cells respond to environmental issues.

Course: BIOL 395: Cell Stress Biology

2022 Recipients

Dr. Mark Baker, Assistant Professor, Saint Francis Xavier University

Project: The goal of this project is to create an open textbook to replace the existing Pearson textbook and to optimize the student learning experience by involving a student in creation, testing, and usability.


Other Team Members: Meghan Landry, Scholarly Communications Librarian, St. Francis Xavier University


Courses: PHYS 121/122: Physics for the Physical Sciences and Engineering I/II

Julie Crouse, Faculty, Nova Scotia Community College

Project: This project is focused on developing ancillary content (such as slide decks, H5P quizzes, and images) to support the use of the existing OER textbook, Exploring substance use in Canada.


Other Team Members: NSCC Copyright Office


Course: SOCS 2024: Introduction to Addictions

Dr. Alexandra Tsedryk, Associate Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University

Project: The goal of this event is to adapt the existing OER text, Liberté, into an OER that will support four French language courses in the Modern Languages Department at Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU). As part of the process, the text will be updated to include Canadian references and perspectives and to make the text more useful and applicable to MSVU students.


Other Team Members: Dr. François-Xavier Eygun, Professor, Modern Languages Department; Dr. Larry Steele, Associate Professor, Modern Languages Department; Dr. Juliette Valcke, Associate Professor, Modern Languages Department; Emily Ballantyne, Educational Developer, Teacher and Learning Centre; Lindsay McCallum, Librarian, Archives and Scholarly Communications & Liaison for the Humanities; Erin Chapman, Instructional Designer, Teaching and Learning Centre; Michael McGuire, Instructional Developer, Teaching and Learning Centre


Courses: FREN 1101: Basic Practical French; FREN 1102: Basic Practical French 2: FREN 2201: Practical French; and FREN 2202: Practical French 2

Dr. Erin Mazerolle, Assistant Professor, Saint Francis Xavier University

Project: This project aims to improve inclusivity, accessibility, and relevance of an open educational resource used for an introductory psychology and neuroscience course and to educate undergraduate students on important concepts related to equity, diversity, and inclusivity.


Other Team Members: Erin Austen, Hackathon Co-Organizer, St. Francis Xavier University; Jesse Husk, Faculty Advisor, St. Francis Xavier University; Leanne Fraser, Faculty Advisor, Dalhousie University


Courses: PSYO 1011/1031 & PSYO 1012/1032: Introduction to Psychology I & II

Jeannie Bail, Liaison Librarian, University of New Brunswick

Project: This project is focused on increasing the reach of the Business Information Skills Certificate (BISC) resource by adapting it as open textbook and populating it with redeveloped H5P quizzes, videos, and ancillary materials such as teaching slides and/or an interactive glossary.


Other Team MembersLizabeth Lemon-Mitchell, Director, Faculty Advancement and Operations, & Instructor, Faculty of Management, University of New Brunswick; Emily Clark, Instructional Designer, Teaching and Learning Services, University of New Brunswick; Leanne Wells, Retired Business Librarian, UNB Libraries; Sally Armstrong, Research Specialist, Senior Associate, PWC Canada


Course: ADM 1165: Business Communications I

2021 Recipients
Dr. Erin Mazerolle, St. Francis Xavier University
Project:This project will focus on the development of an open electronic textbook and companion lab manual, “Answering Questions with Data”.

Other Team Members: Ms. Margaret Vail, Academic Librarian, St. Francis Xavier University; Dr. Derrick Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, St. Francis Xavier University; Ms. Sherry Neville-MacLean, Lab Instructor, Department of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University; Dr. Lindsay Berrigan, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University

Course: PSYC 292: Introductory Statistics for Psychology Research
Dr. Paul De Decker, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Project: “The Science of Stuttering” (TSS) is a web-based module for use in an existing university or college level course in phonetics, sociolinguistics, or clinical phonetics. It is also suitable for standalone individual use. TSS is created through collaboration with people who stutter (PWS), their families, friends and caregivers and speech language pathologists. This open education resource will introduce learners to issues in stuttering research and help develop skills that will be useful for students considering graduate study in speech language pathology. It is meant to challenge everyone to better understand the lived experiences of PWS and SLPs in the clinical treatment of stuttering.

TSS explores what stuttering is from a medical perspective and compares this with social science research on stuttering. Learners can test their understanding of this content through several short quizzes. The second unit features vignettes (short interactive, documentary videos) that look at the lived experiences of people who stutter in social contexts. The third and final unit is an H5P branching scenario/interactive story that introduces students to a mock clinical assessment in which learners can take on the role of a speech language pathologist assessing a client who stutters, and vice-versa. This Theory of Mind activity provides an opportunity for learners to consider the emotions, beliefs, and communicative practices of both participants in a clinical encounter.

Other Team Members: Amelia Robinson, Speech-Language Pathologist; Sandy Crowley, Speech-Language Pathologist; Greg O'Grady, Chair, Newfoundland and Labrador Stuttering Association; and Donna Downey, Manager, Media Services, Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Memorial University

Course: Linguistics 4700: Experimental Phonetics
Dr. Jules Fauteux, Nova Scotia Community College
Project: This project will adapt four textbooks which have been part of an Open Education Resource (OER) pilot in the School of Business and Creative Industries at Nova Scotia Community College. The project will facilitate more widespread use of the OER once adapted. In the 2021/2022 academic year students using these OER textbooks will have consistent access to quality learning resource at no cost to them which will make learning more accessible. Under the supervision of an instructor, a NSCC student will be engaged to review and suggest improvements to the OER’s so that they are optimized from the student perspective. The success of this initiative may also encourage other faculty to adopt and adapt more OERs.

Other Team Members: Lynn MacGregor, Copyright Officer, Nova Scotia Community College Courses: MKTG 1010: Introduction to Marketing I; MKTG 2005: Introduction to Marketing II; BUSI 1015: The Business Environment; PSAL 2010: Professional Selling
Dr. Heather Green, Saint Mary’s University
Project: This project aims to raise awareness of Northern issues and experiences by incorporating them into post-secondary course curriculum and creating an online teaching module on environmental histories of borders in the North (North American Arctic and subarctic). A second goal of this project is to incorporate First Nations traditional knowledge and oral history from the North into course material.

Other Team Members: Dr. Jonathan Luedee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Toronto; Dr. Glenn Iceton, Independent Scholar

Course: HIST 2833: Environmental History of North America
Dr. Linda MacDonald, Dalhousie University
Project: This project is focused on the development of an open textbook that extends existing open textbooks with customized content aimed at an Atlantic Canadian audience; the textbook will reflect the concerns of underrepresented groups and will feature examples drawn from student workplace experiences.

Course: COMM 1715: Business Communications