Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly used to support editing, writing, image creation, coding, research, and other aspects of educational content development. Transparency regarding the use of these tools is an important part of scholarly and editorial integrity. Editorial Use of AI Editors may use approved AI tools to support tasks such as: Editors…
Open Learning course materials frequently incorporate openly licensed, public domain, and permissioned resources. Editors play an important quality assurance role by ensuring attribution information is complete, accurate, and consistently presented. Editors are not responsible for determining copyright permissions but should identify missing or inconsistent attribution information. When Attribution Is Required Attribution should accompany: Creative Commons…
Accessibility is a shared responsibility across the course development team. Editors play an important role in ensuring that course materials are clear, usable, and accessible for all learners. Although editors are not responsible for creating accessible media or remediating complex documents, they should identify potential issues and communicate them to the appropriate team members. Editors…
Dr. Gregory Younging published Elements of Indigenous Style in 2018. This year a new edition has been published by Brush Education: https://brusheducation.ca/brush-catalogue/p/elements-of-indigenous-style-2e This video is a recording of the book launch with editors Warren Cariou and Lorena Fontaine (2025). Amy Haagsma of West Coast Editors wrote a book review and description of the changes: https://westcoasteditors.com/elements-of-indigenous-style-continuing-the-conversation/ The first…
Michelle Terriss, TRU’s Law Librarian, co-created an open resource for Canadian legal citation. Canadian government or legal citation can be challenging to fit into academic style guides, and this open resource is a helpful guide for Canadian editors and writers. The Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide (COAL-RJAL Guide) is freely available on CanLII,
Where possible, we try to include examples in our courses that reflect the diversity of Canadian society. Showing diversity in cultures, ethnicities, genders, ages, and abilities in both the visual representations we use and the instructional examples in courses, we engage with students, value their experience and community, and prepare students for life in a…
The OLProductionExams email address is no longer active. Please send edited exam files to the Learning Environment Development team (i.e., Production) like this:
Word files of the Course Guide template and the Open Learning Faculty Member template are available in O drive, 4 Editing Resources. Feel free to share the Word templates as a time-saver for developers. It may be quicker to fill-in or revise sections in a Word file compared to copying the information from this site…
Previous versions of our standard Course Guide template included an optional section: What Is a Learning Journal. If this is requested, or if you think it would be helpful for students in a course, the file is shared in O drive, 4 Editing resources, TRU_OL Writing Style Guides. Feel free to revise it for the…
From Jan 2023 we changed our Copyright & Credits page of the course guide. Copyright Dates In new courses and major revisions that are ID-led, we will now list only the date of the current copyright year on the Copyright & Credits page in the course guide. Do not include all the copyright dates for…