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You may have heard of GIS, but what exactly is it, and more importantly, how can you use it in your own research and academic work?

This introductory workshop presents the basic concepts of GIS and will teach you the skills you need to find geospatial data, map it, and discover new dimensions of information.

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

In this workshop, we will explore agent based modeling using spatial data as an environment.

An agent-based model (ABM) is a class of computational models for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous agents (both individual or collective entities such as organizations or groups) with a view to assessing their effects on the system as a whole. - Wikipedia

Through targeted funds, the Library is actively ensuring Indigenous voices are represented in the collection.

In this workshop we will introduce Open Textbooks, what they are and how you can use them in your course. Key points we will discuss are the following:

This session will help instructors get started with finding open activities, exercises, and student work samples to use in their courses. It will briefly highlight some usefulrepositories and strategies for finding these types of open education resources.

We will have time for questions during the webinar, but if you have any in advance please feel free to share them with presenter Rebecca Hutchinson, Liaison Librarian for Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science, at r3hutchinson@uwaterloo.ca.

This workshop will address three questions:

• What are OER courses?
• Where can I find OER course materials?
• How can I incorporate OER course materials in my own teaching?

There will be time for questions during the webinar, but if you have any in advance please feel free to share them with presenter R. Antonio Muñoz Gómez , Cataloguing and Metadata Librarian, at ra2munozgomez@uwaterloo.ca.Ìý

Learn to identify and locate the Best OER’s in STEM disciplines.

There will be time for questions during the webinar, but if you have any in advance please feel free to share them with presenter Kathy Szigeti, Science, Engineering, and Research Data Management Librarian, at kszigeti@uwaterloo.ca.

This workshop will provide a brief overview of selected resources for statistics, data, data visualization, and simulations, which are readily available. Emphasis will be on free resources, but relevant Library-subscribed resources will be included.

There will be time for questions during the webinar, but if you have any in advance please feel free to share them with presenter Sandra Keys, Liaison Librarian for Accounting and Finance, Economics, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, and Religious Studies, at skeys@uwaterloo.ca.

In this workshop we will introduce Open Textbooks, what they are and how you can use them in your course. Key points we will discuss are the following:

With over 430 archival collections and 80,000 rare books and periodicals, Special Collections & Archives is able to work with faculty to provide access to our collections in an online environment. Nick Richbell, Head, Special Collections & Archives, will highlight some of our popular collections, direct you to our online resources, and will provide information about how we can support you and your students during the fall semester.