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Hello Everyone,
This is our last update for the year.
New textbooks
[ https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/knowinghome2/ | Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science
with Western Science - Book 2 ]
This new work joins Book 1, published in 2016. Knowing Home attempts to capture the
creative vision of Indigenous scientific knowledge and technology that is derived from an
ecology of a home place. The traditional wisdom component of Indigenous Science—the values
and ways of decision-making—assists humans in their relationship with each other, the land
and water, and all of creation. Edited by Gloria Snively and Lorna Wanosts'a7
Williams, this work was overseen by the [ https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/press/ |
University of Victoria ePublishing Services, ] and supported by an OER Grant from BCcampus
Open Education.
[
https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=5c918b0d-c893-4fd5-a578-…
| Financial Empowerment: Personal Finance for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People ]
This book is designed for a single-semester introduction to financial planning and
decision-making, in order to provide first and second-year business students with the
necessary financial literacy and skills needed to make sound financial decisions, assess
financial risk, and achieve financial success. This textbook attempts to speak to the
varied backgrounds, knowledge systems, and experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous
Canadians by providing Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives on personal finance and
financial planning using examples and information from the Canadian financial system,
economy, and Elders. This open textbook adaptation, by Bettina Schneider from the [
http://fnuniv.ca/ | First Nations University of Canada ] , is published by the [
https://uofrpress.ca/Open-Access-Publishing | Open Access Publishing Program ] part of the
University of Regina Press.
[
https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=62dea1c4-5563-41c5-bef0-…
| Financial Strategy for Public Managers ]
This offering is a new generation textbook for financial management in the public sector.
It offers a thorough, applied, and concise introduction to the essential financial
concepts and analytical tools that today’s effective public servants need to know. The
authors are Sharon Kioko and Justin Marlowe from the University of Washington.
Updated textbook
* Updated edition: [
https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=0be814c3-979d-41a0-a74c-…
| Linear Algebra with Applications: Lyryx, Version 2019B ]
New additions to the [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/ | OER by Discipline Guide ]
* Two new ABE Chemistry resources have been added to [
https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/adult-basic-education/ | Upgrading ]
* [ https://globalstorybooks.net/ | Global Storybooks Portal ] has been added to [
https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/english-as-a-second-language/ | English
Language Learning (ESL) ]
* [ https://climate.mit.edu/ | MIT Climate ] has been added to [
https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/climate-change/ | Climate Change ]
* [ https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/supertracker-source-code-and-foods-database |
SuperTracker ] has been added to the [
https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/nutrition/ | Nutrition ] and and [
https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/records/ | Health Records and Technology ]
chapters
* Carnap for teaching and studying formal logic has been added to [
https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/philosophy/ | Philosophy ]
* Spectacles in the Roman World has been added to [
https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/greek-and-roman-studies/ | Greek and Roman
Studies ]
* [ https://ocw.tudelft.nl/ | TU Delft OpenCourseWare, ] with open courses in English
and Dutch, has been posted in the [
https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/course-collections/ | Course Collections ] and
[ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/dutch/ | Nederlands (Dutch) ] chapte
Help us identify the gaps
Contact opentext(a)bccampus.ca if you would like to see open textbooks made available for
specific subject areas in the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/ | B.C. Open
Textbook Collection ] .
Regards,
The BCcampus Open Education team
Lauri Aesoph, BSc
Manager, Open Education
Cell: [ tel:250-580-6949 | 250-893-0258 ] • Email: [ mailto:laesoph@bccampus.ca |
laesoph(a)bccampus.ca ]
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https://twitter.com/hashtag/BCcampus?src=hash | #BCcampus ]
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territory of the Lkwungen-speaking people.