4:37 p.m.
Hi,
See Martin's email below to more details on the classes and workshop he did at UFV (as
I mentioned at our last meeting).
Debra
From: Martin Warkentin [mailto:Martin.Warkentin@ufv.ca]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 9:26 AM
To: Flewelling, Debra <flewellingd(a)douglascollege.ca>
Subject: Regrets on BCOER meeting
Debra,
Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend the February 28th BCOER meeting, but I will
pass along a couple of comments for possible discussion.
1. Wiki deactivation - Too bad, of course, but glad I didn't end up investing a lot of
time in converting the OK open education libguide. One thought I had was re-purposing the
wiki content into a Pressbooks publication. Everyone probably has some experience with the
platform, its use seems to be increasing and therefore likely to be around for a while,
and it has a number of export options that could keep the content shareable/resuable
(though my memory on the specifics is fuzzy). Wondering what others think?
2. I have two lesson designs, content, and observations from my use that I hope will
interest a few people in some 5R collaboration to produce some more polished and useful
advocacy and teaching content.
The first is a Creative Commons workshop I did for an internal professional development
day. After an overview of CC licenses, participants are given a series of exercises that
involve figuring out how differently licensed content can be combined in an OER product,
including a hypothetical sample of their own content with their preferred licenses
assigned. Some treatment of Traditional Knowledge licenses is also covered.
The second is an attempt to integrate OER advocacy with a library research session for
first-year research and writing course (English 105 here at UFV). This is my first stab at
one of the goals of a working group (Lin, Shawnna, and I - can't remember how we
articulated the goal). The classroom results were pretty good: the discussion resonated
with the students and I seem to have persuaded the instructor to consider using OERs.
I am not going to be able to assemble and send out all the materials and further details
before next week's meeting - and a lot is still in generally incomprehensible
handwritten notes. But hopefully the above descriptions pique some interest.
Anyway, my schedule is opening up a bit in the next couple of months, so I have to get
myself back in the BCOER loop.
Thanks.
-Martin
Martin Warkentin
Copyright Librarian
University of the Fraser Valley
33844 King Road, Abbotsford, BC
Canada V2S 7M8
(604) 504-7441 Ext. 4460