In this session, Learning Technology Coaches focused on the educational value and use of open-source/free technologies in post-secondary classrooms and demonstrated a variety of such tools. A guest speaker, Dr. David Churchill (Department of Computer Science, MUN) provided an example and discussed the benefits of using a free, open-source broadcasting platform in remote or online teaching.

Open Educational Resource (OER) is defined as “teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by their creator, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them.”