Kimberlee Carter
Canada
Kimberlee (Kim) Carter, OER Consultant at Conestoga College ITAL in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Kim leads the Open Learning Team and the Front-line Library Services team in the Library and Learning Services, which includes paid student positions.
Kim originally caught the Open bug in 2017, and that led to a collaborative and crowdsourced OER, Building a Medical Terminology Foundation, with over 2.2 million pageviews to date. The updated 2nd edition came out just last Fall, accompanied by a digital colouring book and workbook. Kim, along with collaborators Marie Rutherford and Connie Stevens, went on to create and publish Therapeutic Communication for Health Care Administrators digital text and game simulations OER.
Kim left a permanent teaching role to lead the open program at Conestoga in 2022, and since that time, students at Conestoga have saved over 6 million dollars in tracked OER adoptions. The Conestoga Open Learning Team, collaborating with our faculty partners and students, has produced and shared with the global community over 40 OER, including ENVR1060 – Climate and Sustainability Foundations open course.
As a past winner of an Open Education Global award, Kim is thrilled to be serving as a reviewer to spotlight the hard work and dedication of others in the Open Community.