Hello Everyone,
Happy Friday! See below for new and updated open textbooks in our collection, news about our support resources, and information about the open peer reviews posted by open textbooks.
New books
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=fb061187-187c-4272-8ba1-… | Speaking and Writing Punjabi ] by Ranbir Johal (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=db971e1f-dee2-4032-99b4-… | Combinatorics: an upper-level introductory course in enumeration, graph theory, and design theory ]
, by Joy Morris (University of Lethbridge
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=8880b4d1-7f62-42fc-a912-… | Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations ] by Michelle Bonczek Evory (Open SUNY)
Updated books
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=e12e3911-8a06-497e-b8c9-… | A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB ] by Serhat Beyenir (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=3ffb8117-dc5a-4197-b0ed-… | Biology 2e ] , from OpenStax, has been added to our collection. The older edition will be archived on June 1, 2018.
Support resources
* The BCcampus Open Education Authoring Guide has been archived. This resource was replaced by the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=1d31f3b7-dd9f-4f47-97eb-… | Self-Publishing Guide ] , added in February.
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Find attached a zipped file containing the editable files for the BCcampus [ https://bccampus.ca/files/2018/05/OpenEdInfoSheet_Spring2018_03.pdf | Open Education Info Sheet – Spring 2018 ]
Reviews
* Starting March 18, 2018, the licence for published reviews changed from CC BY-ND to CC BY. (Older reviews still retain the CC BY-ND designation.) This was done to more easily share reviews with other collections. This information, along with a statement clarifying that the copyright for reviews is held by the reviewer, has been clarified on the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-proposals/call-for-reviewers-2/ | Review an Open Textbook ] web page on our website.
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When open textbooks are replaced with new editions, PDFs of the reviews for the older edition are now compiled in a zip file and posted by the new version of the textbook. A README file is included in the zipped file explaining this arrangement and the reason for it.
Best regards,
The BCcampus Open Education team
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education
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Hello Everyone,
We have just published the date (July 11) for the next [ https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-training-webinar/ | Pressbooks Training webinars ] .
This time, in addition to our Introduction session, we will also be offering an Intermediate 1 session focusing on how to import certain files into Pressbooks and exporting a variety of file types. For faculty and staff who do not have experience using Pressbooks, it is strongly recommended that they take the Introduction webinar before the Intermediate. These two webinars are conveniently scheduled so they can be taken on the same day.
For more information and to register, please see: [ https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-training-webinar/ | https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-training-webinar/ ]
Regards,
Lauri Aesoph
Lauri Aesoph Manager, Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate
Mobile 250.893.0258 | Twitter @lauriaesoph | Skype laesoph
Hello Everyone,
See the below opportunity for all Canadian post-secondary faculty.
Open Choice invites Canadian faculty to review OER for their upcoming database
Choice, a publishing unit at the Association of College and Research Libraries, plans to release a new online database of open educational resource (OER) reviews called Open Choice. The new service will feature a significant collection of critical reviews of OER targeted to teaching faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and university staff charged with acquiring digital tools for instruction (IT, instructional technologies, etc.).
We are looking for active teaching faculty who be interested in reviewing open educational materials for Open Choice. The reviews are more substantive, averaging 2,000-2,500 words, and use a structured review rubric. The rubric provides consistency in reviews and makes them easier to write. All reviews go through a formal copyediting process. We are able to provide a honorarium of $200 for each review.
If you are interested in reviewing, or have questions about Open Choice or the reviewing process, please email Melissa Karp at [ mailto:mkarp@ala-choice.org | mkarp(a)ala-choice.org ] .
Regards,
Lauri
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovat e .
250-893-0258 | laesoph(a)bccampus.ca | Skype lauri.aesoph
120-645 Fort Street | Coast & Straits Salish Territory | Victoria, BC | V8W1G2
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Dear BCOEL colleagues,
Just wanted to share an invitation to join us for Open Education: Transforming Teaching & Learning at SFU<https://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/rc/services/workshops/transform…> at SFU Burnaby (rm 2020 - Bennett Library) from 10am-3pm on Thursday, May 24th. This event is targeted to instructors, students and staff interested in the potential of OER to enhance teaching and learning and will be an opportunity to find out more about open education initiatives and projects happening here at SFU.
Please feel free to adapt and share the following event announcement and details (below) with any contacts who may also be interested.
Thanks so much,
Cheers, Hope
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Hope Power
Teaching & Learning Librarian
W.A.C. Bennett Library (Burnaby)
Simon Fraser University
hpower(a)sfu.ca / 778.782.4359
Open Education: Transforming Teaching & Learning at SFU
Open educational resources (OER)<https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/format-type/oer> are gaining momentum in higher education as a means of making learning more affordable and accessible for students and creating new opportunities for instructors to adapt and customize resources for their teaching practice and subject area.
OER include any teaching and learning materials that have been made freely available and are openly licensed with legal permissions to use, adapt, and share their content. Examples include open textbooks, videos, lesson plans, learning modules, full-length courses ... and more!
Are you interested in the potential of OER to enhance teaching and learning, but not sure how to get started? Join us on Thursday, May 24 from 10:00am to 3:00pm in Room 2020 at W.A.C. Bennett Library (SFU Burnaby) for a series of talks, panel discussions, and hands-on workshops featuring instructors, staff, and students leading open education initiatives and working on OER-related projects here at SFU.
Coffee and lunch provided. Please register for each session you're planning to attend individually.
Program
Session 1: Opening Education: How OER Can Make Education More Accessible and Transformative
Speaker: Lucas Wright (Open Education Advisor, BCcampus)
Time: 10:00am to 11:00am
Join special guest speaker Lucas Wright, an Open Education Advisor at BCcampus<https://bccampus.ca/open-education/>, for an overview and discussion of how open educational resources and practices are transforming post-secondary teaching and learning here in British Columbia and beyond:
* How open educational resources (OER) can be adapted for different disciplines and teaching contexts
* Ways that post-secondary institutions in British Columbia are using OER to make education more accessible
* Avenues for finding, reusing and remixing OER
* Approaches to engaging students as co-creators and partners in the classroom
Register here.<https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/format-type/oer/33454>
Session 2: Open Education and OER in Action at SFU
Speakers: Diana Bedoya (Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology), Leith Davis (English), Parham Elmi (SFSS), Erin Hogg (Archaeology), Petra Menz (Mathematics), Brian Shannon (English)
Time: 11:00am to 12:30pm
Join us for a panel of students, instructors and staff leading OER initiatives here at SFU discussing:
* Why and how they became interested in OER
* What kinds of OER-related projects and/or initiatives they have been working on
* How instructors have integrated open textbooks or other OER in to their courses and teaching practice
* How the use of open textbooks or other OER impacts student learning
Register here.<https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/format-type/oer/33455>
Session 3: OER Tools & Platforms Showcase
Speakers: Jason Toal (Teaching and Learning Centre), Lucas Wright (BCcampus), Kar-On Lee (Teaching and Learning Centre), Rebecca Dowson (Library)
Time: 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Ready to begin finding, using, remixing, or creating your own OER? This session will introduce you to Pressbooks,<https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-support/> Canvas Commons<https://www.sfu.ca/canvas/instructors/add-content/what-is-canvas-commons.ht…>, and Omeka.net,<http://www.omeka.net/> three tools that you can use to get started. We'll kick things off with a brief overview of what each tool does, and then break out into groups for a hands-on deep dive into the tool of your choice.
Register here. <https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/format-type/oer/33456>
