Hello friends and colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to BCIT’s seventh annual Non-Con event on the morning of June 3rd. As always, it will offer all the fun practical takeaway tips and networking opportunities of attending a conference, without the cost or need to travel.
This year’s theme is “Looking forward towards the ‘After Times'*" (*we hope).
In the spirit of the hybrid world we find ourselves in, we are pleased to offer both an in-person and online experience. You are welcome to come for the coffee and conversation at the BCIT library’s Burnaby campus or attend via Zoom. We hope to capture the best of the two environments this way – both to foster the rare networking opportunities of face to face and extend attendance to those beyond the lower mainland as well. A full agenda will be sent out to participants closer to the date, but the timing would be 9:30-12:30 online with coffee for in-person participants at 9:00.
How do you know if the Non-Con is of interest to you?
If information and digital literacy, instruction and/or active learning, open education or teaching with technology are topics you are interested in, then this Non-Con is for you! Academic and Public libraries, librarians and lib-techs are all welcome.
In the spirit of sharing and learning, we are asking everyone to prepare a short (5 min) talk on any of the following topics:
• a teaching experience
• a resource you would recommend
• a technology you have used in class
• an open education project or practice
Really, we are interested in anything you want to share. We have all pivoted to an online learning/programing environment and back again, so maybe you have a trick that has worked well for you from the ‘before’ times or a new trick that suits either environment.
We are also hoping to facilitate a roundtable discussion about how to maximize services and programming in a hybrid world moving forward.
The event is free but space is limited, so RSVP to this email soon, and please indicate whether you plan to attend in person or online.
Deadline is May 25th.
We hope you can join us!
Sincerely,
Deirdre Grace, Jeff Verbeem, Lin Brander and Alison Griffin
BCIT Non-Con event organizers
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/> | O https://www.bcit.ca/open/
Hello,
We invite you to join us at Douglas College (virtually) to hear Open Education advocates Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani discussion on Frameworks for Going Open: Human-Centered Futures for Higher Education<https://library.douglascollege.ca/events/frameworks-going-open>
Debra Flewelling (she/her<https://www.mypronouns.org/she-her>)
Open Education Librarian
debra.flewelling(a)douglascollege.ca<mailto:debra.flewelling@douglascollege.ca>
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Douglas College acknowledges that our campuses, where we live, learn, and work are located on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples of the QayQayt and Kwikwetlem First Nations.
I would like to report back on my action item from the March meeting:
Action Item - Lin - Explore if the open access filter and including open access resources in catalogue is a Summons issue or if it extends to other library systems (e.g. EDS).
Thank you to FX Pare, Systems Librarian at BCIT, for this excellent and detailed explanation:
The short answer:
This could apply to any system, not just Summon/Serials Solutions. However, the details of where/how this is controlled will likely vary from one system to another. Similarly, the collections themselves (exact name, number of titles, etc.) could vary to some extent between software products.
The long answer:
In general, I see four main areas where a library could have a decision to make regarding OA content. Again this should apply to any system, but it could present itself differently from one to the other (some elements might be combined, some might be automatic, etc.).
1) Activating the collections (or not) in the Link Resolver (this could be 360 Link, SFX, Alma, Full Text Finder, etc.).
Impacts:
- A patron using the "Get It" button will be presented with a link to the full text of the article.
- The activated titles will be included in the e-journals/e-books lists, if those are available. In some cases this could be controlled separately (so titles could be available through "Get It" but not be listed, for example).
2) Exporting individual e-journal/e-book records (or not) for those titles to the ILS/Discovery interface (Summon, Primo, EDS, etc.). For some systems this might be automatic once a title is activated in the link resolver, but in other cases this might be controlled on a collection-by-collection basis.
Impact:
- There will now be individual records for the selected OA e-books and e-journals in the Catalogue/Discovery interface.
3) Adding individual article records for the OA titles (or not) to the search results in the Discovery interface.
Impact:
- Records for individual articles coming from those collections will show up in search results.
There is potentially a second level at play here, which is whether the records would be considered part of the library's collection, or whether they would only appear when the user clicks "Show results beyond the library's collection" (or something along those lines). This could either be determined by the activation status in the Link Resolver (see 1 above) or perhaps some systems would assume that the documents are available, given that they are from an Open Access title/collection (see 4 below).
4) Activating (or not) the Open Access filter (aka facet) and/or indicator in the Discovery interface. This is usually an all-or-nothing option, meaning that it's either activated or not, and can't be controlled on a collection-by-collection or title-by-title basis. The determination of whether a record is from an Open Access journal or not is often based on a central directory of journals such as Ulrich's.
Impacts:
- Users will be able to filter search results based on the "Open Access" nature of the documents.
- There can also be some sort of flag, icon or label in each record, indicating that they describe Open Access content.
Ideally there would be some sort of consistency between these four areas in a given institution, meaning that if a collection is deemed trustworthy or interesting enough to be activated in the link resolver, it would also make sense to have the individual articles appear in the Discovery interface, etc.. But there might exceptions, which is why those areas can usually be controlled separately.
One last thing that I think I mentioned before but bears repeating: an additional difficulty in working across different systems is that the available collections themselves might not be totally similar from one institution to the next. Some collections might be available in one resolver but not in another, some collections might have a slightly different name or number of titles, etc. This could make collaboration more difficult, but it's not necessarily a deal-breaker either, as there would likely be significant similarities as well.
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/> | O https://www.bcit.ca/open/
Hello everyone,
FYI: No new open textbooks have been added to (or archived from) the B.C. Open Textbook Collection this month.
Regards,
Lauri
Lauri Aesoph
Manager, Open Education Operations, BCcampus
Cell: 250-893-0258<tel:250-893-0258> • Email: laesoph(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:laesoph@bccampus.ca>
Twitter: @lauriaesoph<https://twitter.com/lauriaesoph> • Skype: lauri.aesoph • LinkedIn: lauriaesoph<https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauriaesoph/>
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For thousands of years the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), W̱SÁNEĆ, and the Songhees Nation of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) Peoples have walked gently on the unceded territories where we now live, work, and play. We are committed to building relationships with the first peoples here, one based in honour and respect, and we thank them for their hospitality.
Hello Everyone,
I'm pleased to announce that the Adoption Finder<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PiYkOQOgTTrrI77J9-sO9HkqdX7c5BtEL_A…> officially goes live tomorrow. BCcampus's Marketing and Communications group will begin by sharing this news over social media followed by the blog post on Tuesday, March 15, and a mention in Wednesday's BCcampus newsletter.
During the next month, I will add a link to the finder to the BCcampus OpenEd<https://open.bccampus.ca/> website and the Adoption Guide.<https://opentextbc.ca/adoptopentextbook/> Once the blog has been posted, I welcome you to do this same to web pages or OER hosted by your institution.
Thank you, everyone, for your help with this product. I welcome additional feedback as this tool is put into use.
Best regards,
Lauri
Lauri Aesoph
Manager, Open Education Operations, BCcampus
Cell: 250-893-0258<tel:250-893-0258> • Email: laesoph(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:laesoph@bccampus.ca>
Twitter: @lauriaesoph<https://twitter.com/lauriaesoph> • Skype: lauri.aesoph • LinkedIn: lauriaesoph<https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauriaesoph/>
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BCcampus.ca<https://bccampus.ca/> • @BCcampus<https://twitter.com/BCcampus> • #BCcampus<https://twitter.com/hashtag/BCcampus?src=hash>
For thousands of years the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), W̱SÁNEĆ, and the Songhees Nation of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) Peoples have walked gently on the unceded territories where we now live, work, and play. We are committed to building relationships with the first peoples here, one based in honour and respect, and we thank them for their hospitality.
Hello Everyone,
I have a question.
We are wondering about adding open content to Summon. If we do this, it would be a lot of content and would appear as part of the library collection. I have concerns about this for two reasons:
- The result list might be overwhelming, is of varying quality, and may prevent the paid content in the catalogue, which is specific to the curriculum, from displaying in a way that students can find it.
- Some of the offered paid content is from publishers like Elsevier and, even though we pay for some Elsevier content, I have deep reservations about 'open' collections from for-profit publishers.
We do have the option to hand-pick some of the open collections on offer. What has your Library done about adding open content to your collections?
Thanks for your help,
Lin
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/> | O https://www.bcit.ca/open/
Happy Open Education Week everyone!
At Kwantlen Polytechnic University we are proud to have built world-leading institutional supports for open education, including for our ground-breaking Zero Textbook Cost program<https://www.kpu.ca/open/ztc>, the creation, adaptation, and adoption of open educational resources<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/catalog/openkpu> (including a grant<https://www.kpu.ca/open/grants> and publishing<https://www.kpu.ca/library/OPUS> program), and faculty fellowships for open pedagogy<https://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship> and open education research<https://www.kpu.ca/open/research-fellowship>.
Today I am thrilled to share that we have developed and are now launching a comprehensive, flexible, and online training program for learners worldwide. Our new Professional Program in Open Education<https://youtu.be/4GShBIbi7PA> is the ideal professional development opportunity for educators, practitioners, technologists, librarians, leaders, policymakers, and others who endeavour to widen equitable access to education. This program is designed to provide a comprehensive foundation for new practitioners as well as to complement and significantly advance the expertise of those already working to support open education.
This program is designed to develop expertise and capacity across a broad spectrum of open educational practices, including open educational resources and pedagogies, educational technologies, policy, advocacy, and scholarship. The program balances both theoretical and practical elements, always ensuring that critical perspectives and issues are foregrounded. The program is open to all and does not require institutional membership or sponsorship.
Post-secondary institutions, non-profit organizations, government agencies, foundations, GLAM, and other groups seeking to advance the goals of open education may draw on this program to develop their staff expertise and capacity. The program is intentionally designed to include practical elements and provides the opportunity for participants to develop and refine organization-specific tools, policies, and programs.
The courses in the Professional Program in Open Education have been developed by globally-recognized experts and are offered through KPU’s Continuing & Professional Studies. To express interest in enrolling in this program (commencing Fall 2022) or to learn more, visit: https://www.kpu.ca/cps/open-education
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Associate Vice President, Teaching and Learning
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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**Apologies for cross-posting**
Dear colleagues,
You are invited to participate in the BCcampus OER Support Resources Survey<https://forms.office.com/r/ht9v6iPJLu>. This survey has up to 14 questions and should take no more than 15 minutes to complete.
The purpose of this survey is to learn how BCcampus can support those who are creating, adapting, and using open educational resources (OER) for the post-secondary sector in British Columbia and the Yukon. Specifically, we are interested in what kinds of support resources are the most useful and what topics to cover.
If you know anyone who works with OER in the post-secondary sector in B.C. or the Yukon, please share this survey with them. We are looking for input from people with all levels of experience.
Please complete and submit this survey by end of day on Friday, March 18. If you have any questions or input related to the survey, send them to oerproduction(a)bccampus.ca.
Thank you,
Arianna Cheveldave [Hear my name]<http://nmdrp.me/ariannacheveldave>
Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus
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