Hello Everyone,
It's been a busy fall for BCcampus Open Education. Please see below for a list of new open textbooks, ancillary resources, and other updates. An option to purchase print-on-demand copies through SFU's Document Solutions for Canadian faculty and students is available for all textbooks. Textbooks and supplementary resources that were created in B.C. are labelled as "Made in British Columbia". Other Canadian based materials are also marked.
New Books
CRIMINOLOGY
Made in British Columbia
[ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=0c9b47a1-9309-470c-b83c-… | Introduction to Criminal Investigation: Processes, Practices and Thinking ] is a teaching text describing and segmenting criminal investigations into its component parts to illustrate the craft of criminal investigation. Published by the Justice Institute of BC and written by Rod Gehl (JIBC) and Darryl Plecas (University of the Fraser Valley), t he goal of this textbook is to assist the reader in forming their own structured mental map of investigative thinking practices.
GEOGRAPHY
[ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=3b660b21-097e-4ecf-8a8e-… | World Regional Geography ] presents an overview of the discipline by introducing students to key themes and concepts in geography through a study of the world’s regions. This recent addition, by Caitlin Finlayson from the University of Mary Washington, was evaluated by subject matter experts in B.C.
MATH - Calculus
Made in British Columbia
[ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=c8c2b69f-5ff7-4b6d-a35a-… | Differential Calculus for the Life Sciences ] , by UBC Math professor Leah Edelstein-Keshet, is a high quality textbook designed with life sciences majors in mind. O ften calculus is taught as a technical subject with rules and formulas devoid of its connection to applications. In this textbook, the applications form an important focal point, with emphasis on life sciences. This places the techniques and concepts into practical context, as well as motivating quantitative approaches to biology taught to undergraduates.
A two-volume set for an introductory calculus course has also been added, written by faculty authors at the Grand Valley State University in Michigan
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=a78cdfc6-b5b6-45cb-9045-… | Active Calculus, 2017 edition ] can be used as a stand-alone textbook for a standard first semester college calculus course or as a supplement to a more traditional text. WeBWork files for a workbook and computer lab activities are available to instructors.
* In [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=3dcfe755-6534-4877-9c97-… | Active Calculus Multivariable ] the authors endeavor to actively engage students in learning the subject through an activity-driven approach in which the vast majority of the examples are completed by students.
PSYCHOLOGY
>From NOBA, we've added [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=0100da6c-9753-42cf-a1f3-… | Together: The Science of Social Psychology ] in which several modules investigate the ways other people affect our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
SPANISH
Two new textbooks on Spanish literature (and written in Spanish) are now available.
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=17e2b614-b203-4491-8f39-… | Antologia Abierta de Literatura Hispana ] is a critical anthology of literary texts from the Spanish-speaking world. The focus is on canonical authors with an attempt to include voices that have been marginalized. Julie Ward, assistant professor of 20th and 21st-century Latin American literature at the University of Oklahoma, is the editor.
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=0613e2b4-5a51-4aec-8927-… | Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español, Segunda edición ] i s an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. This textbook is by Robert Sanders, from Portland State University, who specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century peninsular Spanish literature.
WEB LITERACY
[ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=ccbb4e77-b20f-4dec-8a9f-… | Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers ] by Michael Caulfield, from Washington State University in Vancouver, WA, "will show you how to use date filters to find the source of viral content, how to assess the reputation of a scientific journal in less than five seconds, and how to see if a tweet is really from the famous person you think it is or from an impostor", amongst other skills.
Textbook Updates
Made in British Columbia
PDF files and print-on-demand copies are now available for the two textbook set: [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=4356bb1a-a2d9-4a3c-989e-… | Greek and Latin Roots: Part I - Latin ] and [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=659957b9-b344-4f30-9f74-… | Greek and Latin Roots: Part II - Greek ] . This series examines the systematic principles by which a large portion of English vocabulary has evolved from Latin and (to a lesser degree) from Greek. These open textbooks, by the late Peter Smith, were produced by the University of Victoria and funded, in part, from a BCcampus OER Grant.
Canadian (Alberta)
[ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=c6d0e9bd-ba6b-4548-82d6-… | Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions ] has been updated with files for its 2016 edition. This peer reviewed e-book, from Athabasca University authors Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park, and Beth Perry, is a must-read for nurses and other health professionals who strive to teach with creativity and excellence in clinical settings. Each chapter presents current evidence informed educational practice knowledge.
New Ancillary Resources
HEALTH CARE
Made in British Columbia
[ https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/healthcasestudies/ | Health Case Studies ] , th e work of Glynda Rees, Rob Kruger, and Janet Morrison from BCIT, is a set of eight original health case studies. Each case includes a patient story that models the best practice in healthcare settings along with a set of specific learning objectives to support learning and facilitate educational strategies and evaluation. These case studies align with the textbooks [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=fbbb4840-eda5-4265-9f1c-… | Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care ] and [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=f4873e49-e09c-469e-9ee8-… | Anatomy and Physiology: OpenStax ] . This project was funded, in part, with funds from a BCcampus OER Grant.
ACCOUNTING
Canadian (Alberta)
For [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=0370418e-be7d-4541-b0d1-… | Introduction to Financial Accounting ] , we have added (from author, David Annand, Athabasca University) a comprehensive end-of-course assignment. Randomly-generated versions of this assignment are also available.
ESL and ABE English
Made in British Columbia
Practice exercises, created by the University of Victoria, have been linked to two English as a Second Language (ESL) books in the collection ( [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=3988a71f-654e-4c7c-b662-… | In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook ] and In the Workplace: [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=c071db23-acd5-4242-adcc-… | An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook ] ) and the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Academic/Basic%20Upgr… | BC R ] [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Academic/Basic%20Upgr… | eads series ] that focuses on Adult Literacy Fundamentals in English.
Support Resources
A new "Support Resources" category has been added to the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/ | B.C. Open Textbook collection ] with sub-categories for [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Guides | Guides ] and [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Toolkits | Toolkits ] . All BCcampus created guides and toolkits have been added.
A new resource, [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=f93fbf46-4f6f-44f2-87bd-… | A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students ] , produced through the Rebus Community, has been added to [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Guides | Guides ] in the B.C. Open Textbook collection. This handbook is for for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other open educational resources. Rajiv Jhangiani, from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, was a contributor.
Other News
BCcampus Open Education has posted an ongoing [ https://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-nominations-awards-for-excellence-in-open… | Call for nominations for its new Awards for Excellence in Open Education ] . This monthly award will recognize outstanding contributions to the open education movement in British Columbia . For details, see the "Calls for Proposals" link at the top of the [ https://mail.bccampus.ca/open.bccampus.ca | BCcampus OpenEd website ] .
Regards,
Lauri Aesoph
Lauri Aesoph Manager, Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate
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Hi All
I had a Twitter conversation with an Alberta librarian last night who is asking, why the Open Texts are not in the WorldCat Knowledge Base.
https://twitter.com/astrobri/status/915386485028933632
Apparently we need an OCLC institution to be able to maintain this?
Does anyone know how to proceed?
Thanks
Amanda
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Amanda Coolidge
Senior Manager, Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate.
120- 645 Fort Street | Victoria BC V8W 1G2
Tel 250-818-4592 | [ http://www.bccampus.ca/ | www.bccampus.ca ]
Skype: coolidge.amanda
Twitter: @acoolidge
Did we lose the limit by license function in their recent interface reboot? It used to be that you could limit to openly licensed material but I can no longer see that filter in the advanced search screen. Any care to give it a fresh look and hopefully tell me that I'm wrong???
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ACRL Presents Webcast - What We Talk About When We Talk About Open Access
[http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/ACRL/ACRL%20Update/OpenAccessWeek_lo… ACRL for a free ACRL Presents webcast to kick-off Open Access Week. The webcast, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Open Access<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fala.informz…>” will be held Wednesday, October 25, from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Central time. Open Access Week is an international event that celebrates the open movement. We work with colleagues to plan creative programs that spread awareness of open access. But what do we talk about when we talk about open access? How can we tailor our messages to communicate with a variety of audiences succinctly and persuasively? Join colleagues to reflect on our messages and see how peers have taught about openness. Free registration<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fala.informz…> is now available. The webcast will be recorded and the archive will be shared after the live event.
Debra Flewelling
Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian
Douglas College
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Hi all,
Just wanted to share an invitation to participate in [ http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/32773 | Tension and Risk in Open Scholarship: A Conversation ] : http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/32773
Date : Thursday, October 26, 2017 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Location : British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Downtown Campus, Atrium Room, 8th floor (Room 825)
Registration:
[ http://www.lib.sfu.ca/node/32773/sfu_register | Register ] for this event here:
http://www.lib.sfu.ca/node/32773/sfu_register
Event details : Arrivals and appetizers: 5:00-6:00pm. Session from 6:00-8:00pm including coffee and dessert
We use “open” as though it is free of ideology, ignoring how much “openness,” particularly as it’s used by technologists, is closely intertwined with “meritocracy” — this notion, a false one, that “open” wipes away inequalities, institutions, biases, history, that “open” “levels the playing field. ” -Audrey Waters, From Open to Justice
Spurred by the need to make research and education accessible to all, the open movement has gained ground as the Internet evolved to enable easy sharing of different forms of media and scholarship. Open practices are enabling faculty, staff and students at educational institutions in British Columbia and beyond to reduce barriers to research and education by opening their classrooms, incorporating new resources and perspectives, broadly sharing their data, and contributing to public knowledge. But the adoption of open scholarship cannot be assumed to free of biases and conflicts, and the impacts of open practices can differ depending on the context of those practices. Unaddressed tensions caused by “openness” can lead scholars, students, and community members to feel alienated, exploited, or unheard. Unexamined risks can lead to unintended outcomes for any open endeavours.
Within these intersections lies an opportunity for open scholarship: to directly examine and acknowledge the tensions and risks inherent in openness, and to thereby create a space in which dialogue is generated and understanding of openness is deepened.
Please join BCcampus, BCIT, SFU and UBC in celebrating [ http://www.openaccessweek.org/ | International Open Access Week ] for a panel that examines the threads running through different tensions in the open movements, including:
* Indigenous & Traditional Knowledge: Open scholarship may not be respectful of community authority, ownership, and norms of knowledge sharing.
* Ethics and Privacy: Open scholarship may complicate the impacts of human participants in research, retrospective digitization, and students’ right to privacy.
* Student-faculty relationships: Affordability conversations around open educational resources may lead to tensions around faculty motivation to provide the best learning resources. Open pedagogies can create risks for students: are they supported and what rights do they have in terms of their privacy, copyright, and consent?
* Accessibility and inclusivity: Open practices may lead to digital redlining for individuals and communities and may not be truly accessible for everyone.
* Instructor-Institution relationships: Open practices may allow the appropriation of instructors’ and adjuncts’ work putting their value at risk.
Featured speakers include:
* Amanda Coolidge (BCcampus)
* Jessica Gallinger (SFU Library)
* Christina Illnitichi (AMS, UBC)
* David Gaertner (First Nations and Indigenous Studies, UBC)
* Lisa Nathan (School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, UBC)
* Additional speakers TBA
Hope to see you there!
Thanks, Hope
(on behalf of the BCIT/SFU/UBC event planning team)
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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
Good morning
Sharing this resource in preparation for any Open Access Week events you may be hosting/sponsoring:
https://sparcopen.github.io/Open-Action-Kit/
Thanks
Amanda
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Amanda Coolidge
Senior Manager, Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate.
120- 645 Fort Street | Victoria BC V8W 1G2
Tel 250-818-4592 | [ http://www.bccampus.ca/ | www.bccampus.ca ]
Skype: coolidge.amanda
Twitter: @acoolidge
Not totally sure this got through - I got a funny message back. Here it is again:
Hello Everyone,
Here is the document that Deirdre Grace has developed - it will likely be finalized and formatted very early next week. Please let Deirdre know if you have any feedback.
Are there other BC people notable for their research and work on open education?
Arthur 'Gill' Green
Rajiv Jhangiani
Lin Brander| Librarian, Electronics & Computer Systems; Open Education|British Columbia Institute of Technology T 604-432-8922<tel:604-432-8922>| E lbrander(a)bcit.ca<mailto:lbrander@bcit.ca>| W bcit.ca/library<http://www.bcit.ca/library/>
Hello Everyone,
Here is the document that Deirdre Grace has developed - it will likely be finalized and formatted very early next week. Please let Deirdre know if you have any feedback.
Are there other BC people notable for their research and work on open education?
Arthur 'Gill' Green
Rajiv Jhangiani
