From: Hope Power [mailto:hpower@sfu.ca]
Sent: May-11-17 9:42 AM
To: Martin Warkentin <Martin.Warkentin@ufv.ca>
Cc: Flewelling, Debra <flewellingd@douglascollege.ca>; bcoelsteering <bcoelsteering@kodos.bccampus.ca>
Subject: Re: [Bcoelsteering] Open math practitioners?

Hi Martin,

Petra Menz from MATH at SFU here has recently been funded for a project through our OER grants program. It's still in early stages, but here's her contact info if your UFV faculty contact is interested in reaching out to her: https://www.sfu.ca/math/people/faculty/petra_menz.html

And here's some info about her proposed project:

"Petra Menz’s project aims to find, adapt and adopt OER materials and integrate them into existing course materials for MATH 157 and MATH 158. This includes the amalgamation of course content and study skills exercises, development of online assignments, and interactive practice problem assignments. These developments will offer social calculus students three types of high-quality assessment along with cost-free course content that weaves the learning of reading and studying skills into the material in order to enhance their mathematical learning experience."

Cheers, Hope

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Hope Power
Teaching & Learning Librarian
W.A.C. Bennett Library (Burnaby)
Simon Fraser University
hpower@sfu.ca / 778.782.4359

From: "Martin Warkentin" <Martin.Warkentin@ufv.ca>
To: "Flewelling, Debra" <flewellingd@douglascollege.ca>, "bcoelsteering" <bcoelsteering@kodos.bccampus.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 8:50:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Bcoelsteering] Open math practitioners?

Debra,

Many thanks. I will pass this along.

-Martin

Hi Martin,

I sent our an email to our math faculty that use an open textbook and I’ll let you know if any of them show any interest. However, Rajiv had someone looking for a partner. Here’s Rajiv’s email:

Hello everyone,

I recently met with a faculty member at Carleton U who is interested in developing OER and wants to connect with others in his field who already have.

Do any of you know of any Math faculty on your campuses involved in OER adoption who would be willing to connect with him? His name is Kevin Cheung and his email address is KEVINCHEUNG@CUNET.CARLETON.CA

Many thanks,

Rajiv

Debra

Hi, all.

There is a UFV math faculty member very interested in completing an open textbook on calculus he started a couple of years ago. We’ve had a few conversations in the past, but he has had time constraints, as well as some uncertainties around recombining open licensed content that I haven’t quite been able to alleviate yet. He also has a different pedagogical approach in mind, and one that he apparently cannot easily work into the existing BC Campus calculus texts. The details escape me, but it made a lot of sense to me as someone who never responded well to traditional approaches of teaching math.

So quite some time after starting and outlining from scratch, he has realised it will be more efficient to complete by incorporating existing content. And I now get the impression he is looking for some collaboration opportunities with others who have specifically worked with open math content.

Do any of you know of anyone actively using and revising math content?

Many thanks.

-Martin

Martin Warkentin

Copyright Librarian

University of the Fraser Valley

33844 King Road, Abbotsford, BC

Canada V2S 7M8

(604) 504-7441 Ext. 4460

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