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* The BCcampus Open Education Authoring Guide has been archived.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,
You are receiving this email because you are either a key contact at your institution for BCcampus Open Education, a member of our Pressbooks Advisory committee, or a member of the BCOEL listserv.
Effective immediately, faculty and staff who use the BCcampus Pressbooks instance (pressbooks.bccampus.ca) now have the option of activating three plugins:
1. [ https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/chapter/h5p-interactive-material/ | H5P ]
2. [ https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/chapter/hypothes-is/ | Hypothes.is ]
3. [ https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/chapter/quick-latex/ | Quick LaTeX ]
To learn more about these features, visit the [ https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/part/plugin-features/ | Plugin Features ] section of the recently completed BCcampus OpenEd [ https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/ | Pressbooks Guide ] . Note that only the Administrators of books can activate plugins. (See [ https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/chapter/provide-access-to-others/ | Provide Access to Others ] for details on permissions assigned to each user type in Pressbooks.)
Our team will more widely communicate the availability of these features in October at the same time that we announce the next Pressbooks upgrade. In the meantime, if you are an open education support contact for faculty and staff at your institution, we ask that you take time to read about and test these plugins if you are unfamiliar with them.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Regards,
Lauri
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovat e .
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Excuse the cross postings:
Join us for the Cascadia Open Education Summit, formerly known as the BC Open Textbook Summit, in beautiful Vancouver, B.C. on April 17 & 18, 2019 at SFU Harbour Centre. This event is co-hosted with our regional friends; Lumen Learning, Open Oregon Educational Resources, and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
This event is for new and experienced OER advocates offering the opportunity to learn and share effective practices in awareness building, implementation, collaboration, strategy, and research.
Theme: Scaling New Heights with Open Education.
Example topics include:
* What are the current challenges and opportunities for open education? Do you have creative solutions for how to take them on?
* How is the ecosystem around OER evolving, and what are the implications for this evolution?
* As OER enters mainstream curriculum, what are the implications for institutions? Faculty? Libraries? Students? Other stakeholders?
Event details:
* Day 1 will include 2 keynotes and conference proceedings with presentations, panel presentations, and table talks.
* Day 2 is our Day of Action Focused OER Workshops. A series of workshops will be presented (2 hours each) and is intended for people looking for support in achieving the next step in their OER work or initiative.
Keynotes:
Heather M. Ross, Educational Development Specialist, University of Saskatchewan and Karen Cangialosi, Professor of Biology, Keene State College Who should attend:
People engaged in higher education focused open education initiatives, including students, faculty, librarians, instructional technologists, administrators, and other campus leaders.
Further details will emerge as the program committee meets – stay informed about the call for proposals via #casacadiaopened and through [ https://bccampus.ca/ | our website. ]
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Amanda Coolidge, MEd
Senior Manager of Open Education
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Dear BCOEL colleagues,
I wanted to share an invitation to the following event<https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/33758> hosted during International Open Access Week<http://openaccessweek.org/>:
Event Title: Open but not Free: Invisible Labour in Open Scholarship<https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/33758>
Date: Wednesday, October 24 - 5pm-8pm
Location: SFU Vancouver (Harbour Centre), Rm 7000
Registration: Register online here<https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/33758>
“When we think about ‘open’ and labor, who do we imagine doing the work? What is the work we imagine being done? Who pays? Who benefits? (And how?)” - Audrey Watters<http://hackeducation.com/2018/05/04/cuny-labor-open>
In recent years, the open scholarship movement has gained momentum by aiming to fundamentally transform how knowledge is created and shared. Making open access, open data, and open education the default in higher education promises to remove barriers to learning and make knowledge as broadly accessible as possible. In practice, though, the rise of open scholarship has resulted in new challenges for practitioners and stakeholders working within a system in transition.
To what extent do the adoption of open practices and policies in higher education currently rely on invisible labour? And what may be the impact on the sustainability of the movement? Who is able to participate? Who may be excluded? How can open practitioners and stakeholders work together to ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusion are prioritized in the design of new and sustainable systems for scholarly research and teaching?
Please join SFU, BCIT, KPU, Langara, UFV and UBC and the BC Open Education Librarians (BCOEL)<https://bcoel.ca/> group for this Open Access Week <http://openaccessweek.org/> panel event<https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/33758> on the topic of invisible labour in open scholarship.
Event schedule:
5pm-6pm: Reception with light refreshments served
6pm-8pm: Panel discussion and questions
Featured speakers include:
Melissa Ashman (KPU)
Sanjaya Mishra (Commonwealth of Learning)
Bruce Muir (Nun wa dee Stewardship Society)
Carol Munoz Nieves (SFU)
Juliet O’Brien (UBC)
Bronwyn Sprout - facilitator (UBC)
We hope to see many of you there! And please feel free to share this event information<https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/33758> with others you think may be interested as well.
Thanks, 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
Hi All
In case this hasn't come across your inbox I wanted to share :
code4lib BC!
https://wiki.code4lib.org/BC
Might be a good opportunity to highlight the awesome work BCOEL are doing with Pressbooks, Grants, Open Ed.
Amanda
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Amanda Coolidge, MEd
Senior Manager of Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate.
[ callto:250-580-6949 | 250-8 ] 18-4592 | [ mailto:acoolidge@bccampus.ca | acoolidge(a)bccampus.ca ]
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Unfortunately this is currently only for US librarians at this time.
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> Hi BCOEL members,
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> For those who are not aware of this training opportunity, please see: http://research.cehd.umn.edu/otn/oer-cert/
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> Lauri
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> Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education
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Hi everyone,
For those of you who are not on the Canadaoer list, I’m forwarding this along.
Thanks,
Brenda
Chair, BCOEL
From: Canadaoer [mailto:canadaoer-bounces@mail.bccampus.ca] On Behalf Of Lise Brin
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2018 12:30 PM
To: canadaoer(a)kodos.bccampus.ca
Subject: [Canadaoer] FW: CARL Brings Together OER Librarian Leaders -- L’ABRC assemble un groupe de bibliothécaires chefs de file en RÉL
Hello CanadaOER,
I’ve been lurking here for the past few weeks, and wanted to mention that I’ve entered the fray of this discussion list. I’ve posted below a news item we published today, and I wanted to thank once again the librarians who joined us for an exciting one-day discussion to identify opportunities for action within research libraries.
Lise
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Lise Brin, MLIS
Program Officer / Agente de programme
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Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada
309 rue Cooper Street, Suite 203
Ottawa Ontario K2P 0G5
T 902.318.4485
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Bilingual message // Message Bilingue
CARL Brings Together OER Librarian Leaders to Identify Priorities for Action (http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carl-brings-together-oer-librarian-leaders-to-…)
September 10, 2018. – On August 22, 2018, a group of librarians committed to advancing open educational resources (OER) came together at York University for a full day of discussion towards enhancing Canadian library and librarian involvement in post-secondary OER.
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries has been monitoring the development of OER for several years, and in 2014 carried out a survey of its members regarding their involvement in OER, subsequently producing a working paper, Open Textbooks: Opportunities for Research Libraries<http://www.carl-abrc.ca/doc/open_educational_resources.pdf>.
Four years later, it is clear that library involvement in OER (and open textbooks specifically) has increased substantially. Provincial funding programs and individual projects have been developed across Canada aimed at lowering the cost of student learning materials while also offering instructors accessible content that they can tailor and develop to suit their evolving pedagogical practices. In 2012 BCcampus launched Canada’s first publicly funded open textbook development project, followed by initiatives in Alberta, Manitoba, and most recently through Ontario’s eCampusOntario. Individual OER projects aimed at supporting a specific course or area of study have also cropped up at post-secondary educational institutions throughout Canada, often the result of collaborations involving faculty, librarians, and centres for teaching and learning. Internationally, SPARC has taken a leading role in OER and open education advocacy and training, offering in 2017-2018 a first instance of its in-depth Open Education Leadership Program<https://sparcopen.org/our-work/open-education-leadership-program/> for librarians (a second offering is set to launch this month).
To identify needs at the national level related to OER involvement by research libraries, CARL invited ten emerging and established library leaders in OER to a one-day working meeting.
The meeting was hosted by York University Libraries and led by York’s Dean of Libraries, Joy Kirchner, who also sits on CARL’s Advancing Research Committee. Also representing CARL was Lise Brin, Program Officer working primarily in open scholarship. The invited participants were:
* Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC
* Dianne Cmor, Associate University Librarian, Teaching & Learning, Concordia University
* Inba Kehoe, Copyright Officer and Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Victoria
* Maude Laplante-Dubé, Bibliothécaire-conseil - Diffusion de la recherche, Université Laval
* Ann Ludbrook, Copyright and Scholarly Engagement Librarian, Ryerson University
* Hope Power, Teaching & Learning Librarian, Simon Fraser University
* Stephanie Quail, Business Librarian, York University
* Lillian Rigling, Program Coordinator, eCampus Ontario
* Ali Versluis, Open Education Librarian, University of Guelph
* Amanda Wakaruk, Copyright Librarian, University of Alberta
Some of the ideas arising from this day of discussion included: creating a “bootcamp” for librarian leaders in OER based on a train-the-trainer philosophy, implementing a distributed regional network for increasing capacity for OER advocacy and creation within libraries, forging stronger relationships with other OER stakeholder groups, and creating a statement that articulates the case for library involvement in OER. These ideas will be brought to CARL’s Advancing Research Committee and Strengthening Capacity Committee for consideration in the next weeks with a view to confirming next steps into advancing the library involvement in the OER movement in Canada.
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CARL members include Canada’s twenty-nine largest university libraries as well as two national libraries. Enhancing research and higher education are at the heart of its mission. CARL develops the capacity to support this mission, promotes effective and sustainable scholarly communication, and public policy that enables broad access to scholarly information.
For more information, please contact:
Lise Brin
Program Officer
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
902-318-4485
lise.brin(a)carl-abrc.ca<mailto:lise.brin@carl-abrc.ca>
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L'ABRC assemble un groupe de bibliothécaires chefs de file en RÉL pour identifier les actions prioritaires (http://www.carl-abrc.ca/fr/nouvelles/abrc-assemble-bibliothecaires-rel/)
10 septembre 2018. – Le 22 août 2018, un groupe de bibliothécaires ayant à cœur de promouvoir les ressources éducatives libres (RÉL ou open educational resources - OER) s'est réuni pendant toute une journée à York University pour déterminer comment accroître la participation des bibliothèques et des bibliothécaires canadiens aux ressources éducatives libres au niveau postsecondaire.
L’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada surveille l’évolution des RÉL depuis plusieurs années et a mené en 2014 un sondage auprès de ses membres au sujet de leur intérêt pour les RÉL, produisant par la suite un document de travail intitulé Open Textbooks:<http://www.carl-abrc.ca/doc/open_educational_resources.pdf> Opportunities for Research Libraries<http://www.carl-abrc.ca/doc/open_educational_resources.pdf>.
Quatre ans plus tard, il est clair que l’engouement des bibliothèques pour les RÉL (et plus précisément pour les manuels en libre accès) a augmenté considérablement. Des programmes de financement provinciaux et des projets individuels ont été mis sur pied partout au Canada afin de réduire le coût des manuels et ressources éducatives des étudiants tout en offrant aux chargés de cours et professeurs un contenu accessible qu’ils peuvent adapter et développer en fonction de l’évolution de leurs pratiques pédagogiques. En 2012, le BCcampus a lancé le premier projet de création de manuels ouverts financé par le secteur public au Canada, et a fait des émules en Alberta, au Manitoba et, plus récemment en Ontario par l’entremise d’eCampusOntario. Des projets individuels de RÉL visant à appuyer un cours ou un domaine d’études particulier ont également vu le jour dans des établissements d’enseignement postsecondaire de l’ensemble du Canada, souvent à la suite de collaborations avec des professeurs, des bibliothécaires et des centres d’enseignement et d’apprentissage. À l’échelle internationale, SPARC a joué un rôle de premier plan dans les RÉL ainsi que dans la promotion et la formation en éducation ouverte, en offrant en 2017-2018 une première mouture de son programme de leadership en éducation ouverte<https://sparcopen.org/our-work/open-education-leadership-program/> pour les bibliothécaires (une deuxième mouture devrait être lancée ce mois-ci).
Afin d'identifier les besoins au niveau national quant à la participation des bibliothèques de recherches aux RÉL, l’ABRC a invité dix chefs de file émergents et établis dans le domaine des RÉL à une réunion de travail d’une journée.
Les participantes ont été reçues par les bibliothèques universitaires de York et par leur doyenne, Joy Kirchner, qui siège également au Comité sur l’avancement de la recherche de l’ABRC. Lise Brin, agente de programme travaillant principalement dans le domaine des communications savantes ouvertes, représentait également l’ABRC. Les participantes invitées étaient :
* Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC
* Dianne Cmor, Associate University Librarian, Teaching & Learning, Concordia University
* Inba Kehoe, Copyright Officer and Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Victoria
* Maude Laplante-Dubé, Bibliothécaire-conseil - Diffusion de la recherche, Université Laval
* Ann Ludbrook, Copyright and Scholarly Engagement Librarian, Ryerson University
* Hope Power, Teaching & Learning Librarian, Simon Fraser University
* Stephanie Quail, Business Librarian, York University
* Lillian Rigling, Program Coordinator, eCampus Ontario
* Ali Versluis, Open Education Librarian, University of Guelph
* Amanda Wakaruk, Copyright Librarian, University of Alberta
Parmi les idées découlant de cette journée de discussion, citons : créer un cours pratique pour les bibliothécaires chefs de file en RÉL axé sur la formation des formateurs, mettre en place un réseau régional distribué pour accroître la capacité de plaidoyer et de création de RÉL dans les bibliothèques, approfondir les relations avec d'autres groupes de parties prenantes en RÉL, et créer une déclaration qui articule les arguments en faveur de l'implication de la bibliothèque dans les RÉL. Ces idées seront présentées au Comité sur l'avancement de la recherche et au Comité sur le renforcement des capacités de l’ABRC au cours des prochaines semaines afin de confirmer les prochaines étapes visant à faire progresser la participation de la bibliothèque au mouvement des RÉL au Canada.
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Les membres de l’ABRC comprennent les vingt-neuf plus grandes bibliothèques universitaires du Canada ainsi que deux bibliothèques nationales. L’amélioration de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur est au cœur de sa mission. L’ABRC développe la capacité d’appuyer cette mission, et favorise l’efficacité et la pérennité de la communication savante, ainsi que les politiques publiques qui permettent l’accès le plus large possible à l’information savante.
Pour plus de renseignements, prière de communiquer avec :
Lise Brin
Agente de programme
Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada
902-318-4485
lise.brin(a)carl-abrc.ca<mailto:lise.brin@carl-abrc.ca>
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Lise Brin, MLIS
Program Officer / Agente de programme
[cid:image001.png@01D30653.78740D00]
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada
309 rue Cooper Street, Suite 203
Ottawa Ontario K2P 0G5
T 902.318.4485
E lise.brin(a)carl-abrc.ca<mailto:lise.brin@carl-abrc.ca>
W www.carl-abrc.ca<http://www.carl-abrc.ca>
[cid:image002.png@01D30653.78740D00]@carlabrc
