Hello Everyone,
[ https://bccampus.ca/event/cascadia-open-education-summit/ | Information about ] and the [ https://bccampus.ca/event/2019-cascadia-open-ed-summit-call-for-proposals/ | call for proposals ] for the Cascadia Open Education Summit 2019 are now available.
BCcampus, the Washington State Board of Colleges and Technical Colleges, Open Oregon Educational Resources and Lumen Learning welcome proposals for the Cascadia Open Education Summit April 17-18, 2019 at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). The Cascadia Open Education Summit attracts a wide range of higher education participants including faculty, students, open educators, project staff, librarians, as well as government policymakers and institutional leaders.
Please share this information widely: [ https://bccampus.ca/event/cascadia-open-education-summit/ | https://t.co/Havh7nxR30 ] and #CascadiaOpenEd
Regards,
The BCcampus Open Ed team
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovat e .
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Hello Everyone,
Happy Friday! See below for new and updated open textbooks in our collection, news about our support resources, and information about the open peer reviews posted by open textbooks.
New books
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=fb061187-187c-4272-8ba1-… | Speaking and Writing Punjabi ] by Ranbir Johal (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=db971e1f-dee2-4032-99b4-… | Combinatorics: an upper-level introductory course in enumeration, graph theory, and design theory ]
, by Joy Morris (University of Lethbridge
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=8880b4d1-7f62-42fc-a912-… | Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations ] by Michelle Bonczek Evory (Open SUNY)
Updated books
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=e12e3911-8a06-497e-b8c9-… | A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB ] by Serhat Beyenir (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=3ffb8117-dc5a-4197-b0ed-… | Biology 2e ] , from OpenStax, has been added to our collection. The older edition will be archived on June 1, 2018.
Support resources
* The BCcampus Open Education Authoring Guide has been archived. This resource was replaced by the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=1d31f3b7-dd9f-4f47-97eb-… | Self-Publishing Guide ] , added in February.
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Find attached a zipped file containing the editable files for the BCcampus [ https://bccampus.ca/files/2018/05/OpenEdInfoSheet_Spring2018_03.pdf | Open Education Info Sheet – Spring 2018 ]
Reviews
* Starting March 18, 2018, the licence for published reviews changed from CC BY-ND to CC BY. (Older reviews still retain the CC BY-ND designation.) This was done to more easily share reviews with other collections. This information, along with a statement clarifying that the copyright for reviews is held by the reviewer, has been clarified on the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-proposals/call-for-reviewers-2/ | Review an Open Textbook ] web page on our website.
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When open textbooks are replaced with new editions, PDFs of the reviews for the older edition are now compiled in a zip file and posted by the new version of the textbook. A README file is included in the zipped file explaining this arrangement and the reason for it.
Best regards,
The BCcampus Open Education team
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovat e .
250-893-0258 | laesoph(a)bccampus.ca | Skype lauri.aesoph
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Hi Jessica,
I love this new 2-min video from our friends at the U of Guelph library about CC licenses: https://youtu.be/srVPLrmlBJY
Cheers,
Rajiv
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.
Special Advisor to the Provost on Open Education & Psychology Instructor
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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From: Canadaoer <canadaoer-bounces(a)mail.bccampus.ca> on behalf of Jessica Norman <jessica.norman(a)sait.ca>
Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 9:42 AM
To: "albertaoer(a)googlegroups.com" <albertaoer(a)googlegroups.com>, Canada OER <Canadaoer(a)mail.bccampus.ca>
Subject: [Canadaoer] Looking for OER intro videos
Hi All,
SAIT is hosting a OER forum in a couple of weeks and I’d like to introduce the concept of OERs to the audience via a video. I’ve been reviewing content on YouTube but I thought it would be worth asking here if there are any outstanding videos that you have produced or used in the past. I’m looking for something short (around 5 minutes) and preferably from the Canadian perspective for facts or stats (or at least not exclusively U.S. focused).
Thanks,
Jessica
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Jessica Norman, MLS
eLearning Librarian, Reg Erhardt Library
Library Liaison: Construction, Manufacturing & Automation
Learner and Academic Services
Book an appointment<https://sait.libcal.com/appointment/16446>
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Stan Grad Centre, MC113
1301 – 16 Avenue NW, Calgary AB, T2M 0L4
(Office) 403.210.4073
jessica.norman(a)sait.ca<mailto:jessica.norman@sait.ca>
Preferred pronoun: She/Hers/Her
Hi All,
SAIT is hosting a OER forum in a couple of weeks and I'd like to introduce the concept of OERs to the audience via a video. I've been reviewing content on YouTube but I thought it would be worth asking here if there are any outstanding videos that you have produced or used in the past. I'm looking for something short (around 5 minutes) and preferably from the Canadian perspective for facts or stats (or at least not exclusively U.S. focused).
Thanks,
Jessica
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Jessica Norman, MLS
eLearning Librarian, Reg Erhardt Library
Library Liaison: Construction, Manufacturing & Automation
Learner and Academic Services
Book an appointment<https://sait.libcal.com/appointment/16446>
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Stan Grad Centre, MC113
1301 - 16 Avenue NW, Calgary AB, T2M 0L4
(Office) 403.210.4073
jessica.norman(a)sait.ca<mailto:jessica.norman@sait.ca>
Preferred pronoun: She/Hers/Her
The following meeting has been modified:
Subject: Canada National OER Strategy- Second meeting
Organizer: "Amanda Coolidge" <acoolidge(a)bccampus.ca>
Location: zoom link via eCampus Ontario
Time: Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 9:00:00 AM - 10:00:00 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Invitees: canadaoer(a)mail.bccampus.ca; emma(a)ecampusontario.ca; davidp(a)ecampusontario.ca; mburgess(a)bccampus.ca; lise.brin(a)carl-abrc.ca; cfernlund(a)ecampusontario.ca; heather.ross(a)usask.ca; lpatterson(a)ecampusontario.ca; lrigling(a)ecampusontario.ca; josie.gray(a)bccampus.ca; jhayman(a)ecampusontario.ca ...
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Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://ecampusontario.zoom.us/j/302721571
Or iPhone one-tap :
Canada: +16475580588,,302721571#
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
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Meeting ID: 302 721 571
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/ablYOB4wnf
Hello all.
Our College of Engineering is doing a major revamp of their first year curriculum. As part of that they have set a goal to reduce textbook costs for students and will be considering OER when they can find appropriate materials. They are also looking for a homework system(s). I’m trying to persuade them to avoid commercial systems since that will simply replace money going to publishers for textbooks with money going to publishers for homework systems. I’m wondering if anyone might have some criteria that they provide instructors / departments with for determining if the OER available will meet their NEEDS (wants are another story) and what modifications might be necessary, as well as what criteria they might use for determining appropriate ancillary resources and tools. Their existing criteria for the homework system would not be found in any existing systems, so I need to show them some more realistic criteria.
Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide.
Heather M. Ross (B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed.)
Educational Developer (Digital Pedagogies)
Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning
Research Fellow
Open Education Group
Room 50.5, Murray Building
University of Saskatchewan
Tel: 306.966.5327
email: heather.ross(a)usask.ca<mailto:heather.ross@usask.ca>
http://teaching.usask.ca/index.php
Find open textbooks and other open educational resources on:
http://open.usask.ca
Hello,
Concordia University Library in lovely Montreal is seeking a librarian to help us kick-start our OER path!
We are ready to move on this, and looking for just the right person ...
Please share.
https://library.concordia.ca/about/jobs/https://library.concordia.ca/about/jobs/oer-librarian.pdf
Many thanks!
Dianne Cmor
Associate University Librarian, Teaching & Learning
Concordia University Library
1455 de Maisonneuve West, LB-331
Montréal (Québec) Canada H3G 1M8
(514) 848-2424 ext.7693
library.concordia.ca
orcid.org/0000-0001-6374-892X
The following is a new meeting request:
Subject: Canada National OER Strategy- Second meeting
Organizer: "Amanda Coolidge" <acoolidge(a)bccampus.ca>
Location: zoom link via eCampus Ontario
Time: Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 9:00:00 AM - 10:00:00 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Invitees: canadaoer(a)mail.bccampus.ca
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Thank you friends for a great conversation today about developing a National OER Strategy. As mentioned at our meeting there is interest in identifying our collective goals that will help us form a National OER Strategy.
I have created a [ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M76v2RClvHcoLOzQ_UABqS5NBzidsIhR?us… | Canada OER Folder in Google. ]
Within this folder you will find:
* [ https://drive.google.com/open?id=11HZA7mq81njP5A4C1LzDQiOcHQwGrKuaqeYKQL6TP… | October 1, Meeting notes ]
* [ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b6Qog0SWWbPGbJSThL5q8ezfvvdSfp2H2WQDbhl… | What are our Collective Goals? Document ]
In addition this was just released today: [ https://creativecommons.org/2018/10/01/new-nafta-would-harm-canada-and-shri… | New NAFTA Would Harm Canadian Copyright Reform and Shrink the Public Domain ]
Please add your thoughts/ideas/suggestions to the Collective Goals document by Friday October 26th. Jenni Hayman has offered to start us off with an Appreciative Inquiry exercise in the document.
If you were unable to attend the meeting today we welcome your input as well! Please feel free to review the meeting notes and the collective goals.
I will be sure to forward this on to CASA, CFS, and CC Canada.
Also, please fill out the [ https://doodle.com/poll/b3istwi9pav2nc8q | doodle poll for our next meeting to be held November ] where we will talk about the goals and identify next steps.
Thanks again!
Amanda
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Amanda Coolidge, MEd
Senior Manager of Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate.
[ callto:250-580-6949 | 250-8 ] 18-4592 | [ mailto:acoolidge@bccampus.ca | acoolidge(a)bccampus.ca ]
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Good Friday afternoon everyone. I have a nursing instructor who is looking to replace a commercial textbook currently used for a course in Gerontology. Her colleagues are using Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging by Touhy, Jett, Boscart, and McCleary, while students have found Gerontological Nursing Competencies For Care (4th Edition) by Mauk more useful. She would prefer that her students not have to buy a textbook. Does anyone know of any good existing OER that might replace the textbook?
If not, she had expressed interest that such a book should be created (big dreams).
Heather M. Ross (B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed.)
Educational Developer (Digital Pedagogies)
Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning
Research Fellow
Open Education Group
Room 50.5, Murray Building
University of Saskatchewan
Tel: 306.966.5327
email: heather.ross(a)usask.ca
http://teaching.usask.ca/index.php
Find open textbooks and other open educational resources on:
http://open.usask.ca