Dear colleagues,

This is the last email you'll be receiving regarding updates about BCcampus Open Ed. In an effort to streamline our communication channels, BCcampus Open Education will be shared exclusively through the BCcampus newsletter and announced via BCcampus's social media platforms.

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And now for the last news and updates message.....

Happy Open Access week! This year's theme is Open for whom? Equity in open knowledge. See the BCcampus Events Calendar for a list of Open Access events across the province.

Next week, the BCcampus team is heading to the 16th Annual Open Education Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Follow on Twitter: #opened19

New books added to the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

• New edition: Teaching in a Digital Age - 2nd Edition (Old edition will be removed from the collection Feb 1)

• A test bank is now available for Introduction to Psychology (University of Saskatchewan)

• Native Peoples of North America has been archived as it did not meet the criteria of the B.C. collection. This book can still be found in the Open Textbook Library.

Support resources updates

• Evaluate an Open Textbook has been updated as well as the Find an Open Textbook and Evaluate an Open Textbook in the Adaptation Guide with OER evaluation checklists from the Open Oregon Educational Resources.
• NEW: Appendix C: OpenStax Textbooks in Pressbooks in the Pressbooks Guide
• COMPLETED: Adoption Guide - 2nd Edition

OpenEd updates

• Ongoing adoption: Estimating, calculating, and tracking
  
• Easier customization: 33 OpenStax textbooks now in Pressbooks
• Hard-back OpenStax books come to Canada
• Early thoughts on the BCcampus open homework systems project
• From Zed Cred to ZTC: Clarifying what institutions really means
  
  

OER by Discipline Directory: new entries

• Anatomy
  
• Course Collections
• Education - General
• English and Writing
• Gender Studies
• Geography
• Hairdressing
• Indigenous Studies
• Multimedia Collections
• Open Education and Open Pedagogy
• Pedagogy and Instructional Design
• Pharmacology
• Physics

We need Subject Matter Experts (SME) from B.C. or other parts of Canada to review textbooks being considered for the B.C. Open Textbook Collection. See the list of Books open for review by Canadian faculty. Contact bookreviews@bccampus.ca if you are interested in providing an SME review.

Help us identify the gaps
Contact opentext@bccampus.ca if you would like to see open textbooks made available for specific subject areas in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection. 

For the most current open education information, see:

• Information Directory
• Post-Secondary Directory 

For questions about open education in B.C., see the Answer Guide

On behalf of the BCcampus OpenEd team,