About Kim
Kimberlee (Kim) Carter holds a B.Ed. in Adult Education from Brock University, M.A. in Leadership from the Lang School of Business & Economics, University of Guelph, an Empowered Educator credential from eCampus Ontario and recently completed the Professional Program in Open Education at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Influenced early in her career by education leaders like bell hooks and Stephen Brookfield, caring for students through their education journey is at the core of her practice.
Kim has been in a newly created position of Open Educational Resource Consultant for two years at Conestoga College ITAL. Advancing Open Educational Practices (OEP), creating and developing processes to grow Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) development, and managing the Open Learning team in Library and Learning Services. Kim feels so lucky to have found purposeful work that allows her to pursue a passion for Open Education. Kim is a first-generation learner from a working-class family who relates to some of the barriers preventing people from pursuing higher education. Before this role, she spent 13 years teaching, worked in various front-line health care administration roles in hospitals and co-owned a small business with her partner. To learn more about her professional experiences, visit her LinkedIn page here.
Collaborative published OER projects include Building a Medical Terminology Foundation. Therapeutic Communications for Health Care Administrators digital text and Therapeutic Communication for Health Care Administrators Game Simulations, Co-Designing OER with Learners: A Replacement to Traditional College Level Assessments, A Project Management Crisis: Moving a Multi-institutional Collaborative Sprint Online, Building a Medical Terminology Foundation 2e, Workbook, and Anatomical Colouring book.
