This presentation will be a description of how open textbooks, platforms and pedagogies influence the ways in which faculty and students use OER to enhance learning outcomes. The study used data from a survey of faculty in British Columbia, Canada who have adopted a textbook from the BCcampus open textbook repository. This will be followed up by a description of how faculty at Thompson Rivers University are rethinking their courses as they adopt open resources, platforms, and pedagogies. OER adoptions roughly fall into three categories of remix activity: replace, realign, and rethink. Faculty who simply replace commercial resources with OER may do so for the financial benefit to their students, but without changing their courses in any other meaningful way. Those who realign will identify OER which align with their current learning outcomes in order to better support learning. Finally, those who rethink their courses will remix their resources but will take the additional step of remixing the learning activities and assessments, leveraging the 5R permissions (retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute) of OER to change what students are required to do in order to attain the intended learning outcomes.
