What do you think of this draft proposal for the BCLA conference?
>From Open Educational Practices to Social Justice: Making the Leap
Open Education is about more than opening resources, it is also about opening pedagogy but what does that mean? What does open education have to do with social justice? Do we believe that education is about leveling the playing field, and at its best addresses issues of injustice, privilege and exclusion? Are open education practices, at their core, about access, equity, innovation and creativity? If so, how is the open education movement embodying those values?
Join a panel to discuss the broad impact of open educational practices. How are these practices living up to their potential, and how are they failing to do so? Can open education help provide a more equitable future where a multitude of diverse voices are heard and respected? Librarians are key contributors in the open education movement as an extension of their historical roles to provide safe places of learning that are open and available to all, or is that traditional role a myth? Let's discuss.
Inspiring this approach was the Thursday open access event Tension and Risk in Open Scholarship, and Amanda's reflections on the Open Education Conference: https://bccampus.ca/2017/10/18/reflections-on-open-ed-2017-amanda-coolidge/ Thanks Amanda!
Here is the call for proposals:
The 2018 BC Library Conference theme is Work +Culture. This theme urges an examination of the connections between work environments, institutional cultures, and communities; an inquiry of how cultures can impact, clash, and complement each other and inform society as a whole.
Collaboration, inclusion, innovation - we include these words in job descriptions and library values and mission statements, but how well do we practice these values? Do our organizational structures and cultures foster or hinder these goals? How do we -- as individuals, institutions, and organizations -- determine and define our culture and our values? And how does our culture affect our work and profession?
Are our values changing and if so what are they becoming? How do changes in our values and culture affect the concept of "library" and the work that we perform?
Understanding the culture of our institutions helps us understand the role of the library in our rapidly changing society and helps us understand the impact of our work.
Our hope is that the theme Work + Culture will inspire you to submit a session proposal that illustrates how libraries and library workers define their values in their every day work; proposals that challenge some of our existing assumptions about libraries and postulate new ways to engage in our culture; proposals that examine our institutional assumptions and behaviour and ask how we can enhance our culture and our work; proposals that demonstrate new ways that libraries and library workers lead and support advocacy and proposals that help us define and redefine our work and our institutions.
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Ready for some negative press?
As we know, Canadian publisher groups are vehemently opposed to current practices of educational fair dealing, and have developed lobbying and public relations arguments that oftentimes omit, downplay, or distort basic facts in what has become a rather divisive and polarised debate. Now someone in this copyright maximalist camp seems to be proffering a complete misrepresentation of the intellectual property aspects of open educational resources. In the article linked below, a Canadian publisher oddly suggests that fair dealing laws are also to blame for the rise of OER:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/7504…
See the paragraph starting with "And it has also enabled a "scavenging" of the information industry..."
Maybe this is not new, but I have not observed this tactic before. I suppose this story is good reminder we need informed answers at the ready to respond to inaccurate or irrelevant accusations, such as conflating OER practices with copyright infringement.
-Martin
Martin Warkentin
Copyright Librarian
University of the Fraser Valley
33844 King Road, Abbotsford, BC
Canada V2S 7M8
(604) 504-7441 Ext. 4460
Hello,
Our BCOEL meeting is tomorrow at 1:00 PM. I'd like to try Blue Jeans rather than Skpe and see if we have fewer problems. The link to use is https://bluejeans.com/6045275190
You do not need to install the app if you don't want to - just look at the bottom of the screen and you will see "Can't Install the App? Join with Browser" - see attached screenshot.
Minutes are attached from our last meeting on September 7th - thanks Martin.
Please add agenda items to this page -
http://bcoerguides.wikispaces.com/Meeting+Agenda+and+Virtual+Meeting+Room+I…
Let me know if you have any questions or experience any problems with Blue Jeans.
Thanks,
Debra
Debra Flewelling
Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian
T 604.527.5190 F 604.527.5193
Debra.Flewelling(a)douglascollege.ca<mailto:Debra.Flewelling@douglascollege.ca>
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KPU's lineup looks great Caroline!
For our event here at Douglas, Christina Hendricks will be coming to talk about open pedagogy on Thursday at 1:30. It too is open to all and here's the registration form - https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/whats-open-about-open-pedagogy-tickets-38257482…
Debra
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Hi everyone
Here are some events happening at KPU - http://www.kpu.ca/OpenAccessWeek<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kpu.ca%…>. Everyone is welcome!
Lucas - can we put these on the BCcampus calendar? I don't think I see them there but maybe I'm not looking in the right place.
Feel free to share widely!
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Caroline Daniels, MLS
Systems, Web and Interlibrary Loan Librarian
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Hi everyone
Here are some events happening at KPU - http://www.kpu.ca/OpenAccessWeek. Everyone is welcome!
Lucas - can we put these on the BCcampus calendar? I don't think I see them there but maybe I'm not looking in the right place.
Feel free to share widely!
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Caroline Daniels, MLS
Systems, Web and Interlibrary Loan Librarian
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
t 604.599.3036 f 604.599.2532 e caroline.daniels(a)kpu.ca<mailto:firstname.lastname@kpu.ca>
www.kpu.ca<http://www.kpu.ca/>
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Hi,
The best day for our next meeting for most people is Oct. 18th at 1:00 PM. I'm going to play around with Blue Jeans and see if it works better than Skype. I'll contact everyone closer to that date.
On another note, Amanda Coolidge received an email from a grad student in the Information Science program at the University of North Carolina. She said she is writing her masters paper on creating an Open Textbook Rubric for Librarians and Amanda sent her the Rubric that the BCOEL have on our website but she said it was a good starting point but a bit different from what she's looking for. She wants to know if we have any other information or know of studies that analyze librarian's opinions of Open Access. Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions I could pass on?
Thanks,
Debra
Debra Flewelling
Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian
T 604.527.5190 F 604.527.5193
Debra.Flewelling(a)douglascollege.ca<mailto:Debra.Flewelling@douglascollege.ca>
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