Research Guides

Scavenger Hunt: Finding Open & Affordable Learning Materials

1. First, select one of the following options and open a corresponding link.

It's time to test your searching skills!

2. Then, use the table of search terms (below) to search for learning materials in your course's discipline or on a topic in your course calendar.

  • Academic achievement
  • Academic development
  • Accessibility
  • Achievement
  • Achievement gap
  • Action research
  • Active learning
  • Adult learning
  • Analysis
  • Andragogy
  • Annotation
  • Anxiety
  • Assessment
  • Assignments
  • Assistive technology
  • Asynchronous instruction
  • At-risk
  • Attention
  • Attitude
  • Authentic
  • Authentic learning
  • Backwards design
  • Beliefs
  • Behavior
  • Behavior management
  • Behavioral challenges
  • Blended learning
  • Bloom's taxonomy
  • Book
  • Book clubs
  • Case method
  • Case study
  • Challenges
  • Change management
  • Class size
  • Classroom climate
  • Classroom design
  • Classroom management
  • Cloud-based learning
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive development
  • Cognitive load
  • Cognitive strategies
  • Copyright
  • Collaboration
  • Collaborative learning
  • Collaborative research
  • College
  • Communication
  • Communication disorders
  • Communities of practice
  • Community service learning
  • Compare
  • Concepts
  • Conceptions of learning
  • Conceptions of instruction
  • Conceptions of teaching
  • Confidentiality
  • Construction of knowledge
  • Constructivism
  • Contrast
  • Cooperation
  • Counselling
  • Course design
  • Course evaluation
  • Course outline
  • Creative commons
  • Critical thinking
  • Culture
  • Cultural competency
  • Culturally responsive pedagogy
  • Curriculum
  • Curriculum design
  • Data-based
  • Debate
  • Decoding
  • Degree
  • Defend
  • Description
  • Diagram
  • Differentiation
  • Disabilities
  • Discipline
  • Discussion
  • Discussion post
  • Discussion thread
  • Distance learning
  • Diversity
  • E-learning
  • Education
  • Educational development
  • Educational technologies
  • Employment
  • Epistemology
  • Equity
  • Essay writing
  • Ethics
  • Etiquette
  • Evaluation
  • Evidenced-based
  • Examples
  • Exams
  • Expectations
  • Experiential learning
  • Extrinsic motivation
  • Faculty
  • Faculty development
  • Failure
  • Fair use
  • Fairness
  • Feedback
  • First-year student
  • Fixed mindset
  • Flipped classroom
  • Flowchart
  • Formative assessment
  • Formative feedback
  • Game-based learning
  • Gamification
  • Gatekeeping
  • Gender
  • Global design
  • Goals
  • Grading
  • Graduate students
  • Group work
  • Growth mindset
  • Hidden curriculum
  • High-impact practices
  • Higher Education
  • Hybrid course
  • Hybrid design
  • Hybrid learning
  • Illustrate
  • Inclusion
  • Inclusive teaching
  • Individualized instruction
  • Information literacy
  • Inquiry
  • Inquiry-based learning
  • Inquiry research
  • Instruction
  • Instructional design
  • Instructional goals
  • Instructional strategies
  • Instructional technology
  • Instructors
  • Intellectual
  • Intelligence
  • Interactive learning
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International
  • Internationalization
  • Internet
  • Internship
  • Interpret
  • Intrinsic motivation
  • Inverted classroom
  • Justify
  • Knowledge
  • Kolb's learning cycle
  • Lab work
  • Laboratory
  • Language
  • Leadership skills
  • Learner characteristics
  • Learner-centered
  • Learning
  • Learning disabilities
  • Learning goals
  • Learning management system (LMS)
  • Learning objective
  • Learning outcomes
  • Learning spaces
  • Learning styles
  • Learning technology
  • Learning tools
  • Lectures
  • Lesson
  • Lesson planning
  • Licensing
  • Literacy
  • Marginalization
  • Media literacy
  • Memory
  • Mental models
  • Meta
  • Metacognition
  • Minute thesis
  • Mixed methodology
  • Mixed methods research
  • Motivation
  • Multidisciplinary
  • Multimedia
  • Multimodal learning
  • Multiple choice
  • Needs assessment
  • News literacy
  • Non-disclosure
  • Object-based learning (OBL)
  • Objectives
  • Open access
  • Open data
  • Open education
  • Open education resources
  • Open learning
  • Open licensing
  • Open source software
  • Openly accessible
  • Outline
  • Participation
  • Pedagogy
  • Peer assessment
  • Peer observation
  • Peer review
  • Pivot
  • Plagiarism
  • Portfolio assignments
  • Prior knowledge
  • Problem-based learning
  • Professor
  • Professionalism
  • Program outcomes
  • Qualitative analysis
  • Qualitative research
  • Quantitative analysis
  • Quantitative research
  • Question
  • Quiz
  • Read
  • Reflection
  • Reliability
  • Report
  • Research design
  • Research methodology
  • Retrieval
  • Review
  • Risk
  • Rubric
  • Scaffolding
  • Scholarship
  • Scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL)
  • Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
  • Science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM)
  • Self-assessment
  • Self-regulation
  • Service learning
  • Simulation
  • Skills
  • Small group
  • Social constructivism
  • Social learning
  • Social learning systems
  • Stereotyping
  • Storyboarding
  • Storytelling
  • Student
  • Student engagement
  • Student success
  • Study skills
  • Summarize
  • Summative assessment
  • Survey design
  • Synchronous instruction
  • Syllabus
  • Synthesis
  • Taxonomy
  • Teach
  • Teacher
  • Teaching
  • Teaching and learning communities
  • Teaching assistant
  • Teaching controversy
  • Teaching development plan (TDP)
  • Teaching evaluation
  • Teaching methods
  • Teaching portfolio
  • Team-based learning
  • Technology
  • Testing
  • Textbooks
  • Threshold concepts
  • Transfer of knowledge
  • Transfer student
  • Transformative teaching
  • Transparent assignment design
  • Trauma-informed
  • Trigger warnings
  • Underachievement
  • Undergraduate
  • Understand
  • Universal design
  • University
  • Unprepared
  • Validity
  • Values
  • Vocational
  • Vulnerable populations
  • Webinar
  • Wellness
  • Working knowledge
  • Workplace learning
  • Writing
  • Zone of proximal development (ZPD)