Open Course Materials Matching Service (OCoMMS)

1. Submit a Request: Complete the Open Course Materials Matching Service (OCoMMS) Request Form below.

2. OER Recommendations Provided: The OCoMMS Support Team will curate a list of potential open educational resources for you to review and evaluate.

• Instructors and faculty are the subject experts of their course and therefore can best judge which open resources best suit the needs of their course and students.
• We may contact you for additional information and/or to provide updates along the way.

3. OER Adoption (optional): If you find one or more OERs in the provided curated list you would like to adopt, let the OCoMMS Support Team know!

• The OCoMMS Support Team can also assist in the adoption process if needed.
• We can also help support impact and cost savings considerations. 
  • For example, if you pilot an OER in your UCalgary course, we can provide you a cost savings calculation to help see the impact your OER adoption on student savings.
• If you find multiple OER you'd like to adopt, but package together into one new resource, the OCoMMS Support Team can look into options available to you. 

4. New search (optional): If you find that the OER options provided do not suit their course, OCoMMS staff are able to continue searching for potential OER.

• Note: The quantity and quality of open educational resources can differ by discipline, but new OER are being created all the time. So OCoMMS staff are available to working with faculty to match applicable OER over the short-term or long-term.