11 a.m.
Dear colleagues,
As you may be aware, BCcampus recently launched a monthly award for Excellence in Open
Education. The first award went to Dr. Irwin DeVries (TRU-OL) and the second went to Tara
Robertson (Mozilla, formerly CAPER-BC). We wanted to challenge each institution to
nominate one or more of their colleagues for this award. Award criteria and the nomination
form are available
at: https://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-nominations-awards-for-excellence-in-open…
See also:
https://bccampus.ca/2017/11/07/award-for-excellence-in-open-education-irwin…
https://bccampus.ca/2017/12/05/award-for-excellence-in-open-education-tara-…
The second update I wanted to share is that we recently launched two COEPs (Communities of
Open Education Practitioners), for Physics and Psychology. The idea behind creating these
groups is to facilitate collaboration and sharing among like-minded disciplinary
colleagues across different institutions, both within and beyond BC. This might, for
example, involve proposing and peer reviewing revisions to within specific open textbooks,
sharing ancillary teaching resources, or even helping identify the need
for/collaboratively developing additional open educational resources.
These groups are designed to be informal and, importantly, your level of involvement is
entirely up to the individual. So, for example, an instructor may choose to draw on shared
resources for their own teaching and assist colleagues by reviewing a newly-discovered
open textbook. Or they may choose to propose the development of a question bank to support
an open textbook, recruit collaborators, and apply to BCcampus for funding to support
their project.
In each case, we have created a Google Group to facilitate communication (this functions
like a private listserv) and a private Hypothes.is group to facilitate sharing of
annotations within specific open textbooks (click here if you are unfamiliar with social
annotations).
Anyone interested in joining a COEP should send an email to opentext(a)bccampus.ca. They
will then be added to the Google Group and receive the link to join the
private Hypothes.is group. Please feel free to share this email with interested
colleagues.
Thank you very much for your support of open education.
On behalf of the BCcampus Open Education team,
Rajiv Jhangiani
Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.
Advisor, Open Education
BCcampus | connect.collaborate.innovate.
200-555 Seymour Street | Vancouver BC V6B 3H6
Email: rajiv(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca
Twitter: @thatpsychprof