Hi everyone,
Here's the Doodle for our next meeting in the new year - https://doodle.com/poll/sp9bpnwwx47kuffi
Hopefully we'll have a date picked before we break for the holidays.
Debra
Debra Flewelling
Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian
T 604.527.5190 F 604.527.5193
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Hello all,
Just an update on the Festival of Learning proposal.
I wasn't able to attend the BCALS December meeting a week ago which was focused on issues of privacy but a colleague did attend and said it was really good. I contacted the presenters last week to see if they might be willing to reconvene and do a panel at the Festival of Learning. Only one person is able to commit. The Festival of Learning organizers have a policy that any one who is presenting has to pay a minimum of one day attendance fee, so that excluded one of the potential panelists and limits who is able to commit to a session. As a result, I am not going to submit the proposal. I apologize about this late notice as the deadline for proposals is today.
I did submit the proposal we discussed for BCLA. I'll let you know if that proposal is accepted once I hear back from the program committee.
I think many of us will be involved in the KPU hosted Open Education Week event so, although it would be nice to have a BCOEL session at Festival of Learning, I think it is OK if we miss it this year.
Best, Lin
Hi all
I'm following up on an item that we discussed a few meetings ago at one of our steering committee teleconferences. You might recall Lindsay wanting us to get going on an OE event that we could all market together.
I've moved Lindsay's request forward and I've been working a bit with Amanda (who is on this list) and we have come up with an initial proposal for an all day Open Ed event on March 6, with another one on the Island possibly on the 8. March 6 potentially at KPU Richmond with an evening event at SFU Harbour Centre - just 11 quick sky train stops away!
We are having an initial brief meeting on Dec. 12 at 1 amongst a few people who are interested in planning the event. If you want me to add you to the list to participate on that call, let me know. But don't feel like you have to participate on the planning committee to be able to claim the event as your own and shamelessly market it.
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Systems, Web and Interlibrary Loan Librarian
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Caroline let me know that you were all OK with the BCLA proposal. I am going to submit it today. Amanda, Rosario, and Rajiv (tentative) have agreed to be on the panel. Does anyone from our group want to be the librarian on the panel or moderate? Or, do you have an idea for these two roles? I can put myself in for now if I don't hear from anyone right away and we can change it up if the proposal is accepted, so don't let the submission deadline stop you from putting your hand up if you are interested. I'll ask you for faculty suggestions later if Rajiv can't do it.
>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, addressing 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.
https://bclaconnect.ca/2018-conference/
Hello,
It looks like the best day and time for our next meeting is Thursday, Nov. 16th at 10:00 AM. Please connect via Blue Jeans with this link - https://bluejeans.com/6045275190
Proposal for BCLA conference and Festival of Learning will be on the agenda. Lin has suggested the following for the FOL:
Festival of Learning
Open and Private: Dichotomy or Roommates (who get along)
What should be open and what should be private? How do we encourage students to work in the open while keeping them safe in Cyberville? How do we help them develop their ability to make meaningful contributions to their disciplines and avoid having their privacy hacked? How do we encourage open practices and respect choices that people make for a myriad of reasons?
Talk to you next Thursday.
Debra
Debra Flewelling
Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian
Douglas College
Hi - here's the Doodle for our next BCOEL meeting - sorry it is so long - https://doodle.com/poll/dke2kwpwfz4ekir3
Debra Flewelling
Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian
Douglas College
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
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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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Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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