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* The BCcampus Open Education Authoring Guide has been archived.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
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Hi there fellow Open Educators,
Here's a reminder for the Open Access Week event Open but not Free: Invisible Labour in Open Scholarship <https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/33758> , happening tomorrow 5-8pm at FU Harbour Centre, Vancouver. This event is proudly sponsored and co-hosted by BCcampus, SFU, BCIT, KPU, Langara, UFV and UBC in a collaborative effort to celebrate Open Access Week. .
I hear it is almost sold out... so if you want to join in on what promises to be a very insightful discussion, register asap!
Cheers,
Rosario
Hello fellow Open Educators,
BCIT is celebrating Open Access Week with a great event tomorrow:
Open Access Week Wednesday
October 24
Main Floor, Burnaby Campus Library
11:30 to 2:30
Events include:
* Wikipedia-a-thon
* Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
* Check Your Information Privilege
So, drop by tomorrow at some time to participate in some of these events!
Cheers,
Rosario
Hi there fellow open educators!
This MOOC on "Introduction to Technology-Enabled Learning" starts at the end of October and seems it may be an interesting course if you want to expand your knowledge about using technology in teaching and learning. The MOOC is offered by Athabasca University with the support of The Commonwealth of Learning.
For a course description and to register, check out the link:
https://www.telmooc.org<https://www.telmooc.org/>
Feel free to circulate this information through your networks.
Cheers,
Rosario
Hi there fellow open educators,
And here is an update on new open textbooks available from College Open Textbooks. May be interesting to browse the site to see if there’s anything you might find useful,
Cheers,
Rosario
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An Update on the New College Open Textbooks
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Textbook Listings
Since April, we've added over 50 open textbooks to our listings. They include the complete catalog from the University of Georgia's Galileo repository and seven new 2nd editions from OpenStax. These new titles bring our total listings to over 750 open textbooks.
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Peer Reviews
Peer reviews are more prominent on our new site, and this has led to an increase in the number of educators who are offering to join our distinguished panel of peer reviewers. We've added eight new reviews since April, with more in the pipeline.
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Success Stories
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We're Building an Open Textbook Search Engine
Much has changed in the OER universe since we first created College Open Textbooks. Ten years ago, most open textbooks were self-published and scattered widely across the web. Today we're seeing a steady increase in the number of curated repositories.
College Open Textbooks has a small team of volunteer web developers working on an application to mine those repositories. Our prototype currently searches the repositories of five organizations who have partnered with us (BC Campus, UGA's Galileo, Orange Grove, OpenStax, and SUNY), as well as College Open Textbooks' own listings.
We're excited to announce that Charles Key, the Search Engine program manager, will present our progress in two weeks at the upcoming Open Education Conference. If you're at the conference, we invite you to attend our round table presentation on Thursday, October 11 at 9:45 AM.
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