Hello Everyone,
We have just published the date (October 3) for the next [ https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-training-webinar/ | Pressbooks Training webinars ] . These sessions are open to all B.C. faculty and staff.
In addition to the Introduction session, we will also be offering a third more advanced session: Intermediate 3 which will talk about how and when to cite and attribute elements for authors working on open textbooks in Pressbooks, along with where to find openly licensed resources.This intermediate session is the third in a series that we're developing on issues beyond introductory topics.
For faculty and staff who do not have experience using Pressbooks, it is strongly recommended that they take the Introduction webinar before the Intermediate. These two webinars are conveniently scheduled so they can be taken on the same day.
For more information and to register, please see: [ https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-training-webinar/ | https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-training-webinar/ ]
To watch recordings from past webinars, visit [ https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/chapter/webinar-recordings/ | Webinar Recordings for Everyone ] .
For a copy of the PowerPoint slides used during these webinars, visit [ https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/chapter/powerpoint-slides-used-during-webi… | PowerPoint Slides Used during Webinars ] .
Regards,
Lauri Aesoph
Lauri Aesoph Manager, Open Education
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And here are some international events during Open Education Week, just in case you are interested. These are all webinars organized by the European Distance Education Network. Some interesting events around quality of open resources and practices. I may ty to catch one or two.
Cheers,
Rosario
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Instructional Development Consultant
Learning and Teaching Centre, BCIT
www.bcit.ca/ltc<../../../../../../All_Work_Data/www.bcit.ca/ltc>
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
Tel: (604) 456 1266
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Subject: [EDEN-News] Open Education Week 2018 - Events organised by EDEN
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Open Education Week
<http://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/open-education-week-2/>5-9 March 2018
Free events organised by EDEN
Open Education Week<https://www.openeducationweek.org/> is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide, the free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now.
We want to highlight how open education can help people meet their goals in education, whether that’s to develop skills and knowledge for work, supporting formal studies, learning something new for personal interest, or looking for additional teaching resources.
It is coordinated by the The Open Education Consortium<http://www.oeconsortium.org/>, an association of hundreds of institutions and organizations around the world that are committed to the ideals of open education. Universities, colleges, schools and organizations from all over the world have come together to showcase what they’re doing to make education more open, free, and available to everyone.
Join us for the following events – participation is free and open!
Don't forget to register, as EDEN will issue open badges to acknowledge and appreciate your participation at these events.
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The future of the distance education university
Monday, 5 March, 2018, 20:00 CET
Format: Panel discussion
Moderator: Mark Nichols, Open University UK, EDEN Executive Committee member
Speakers: Sir John Daniel, Ross Paul, António Teixeira, Tony Bates
Please click here<http://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/the-future-of-the-distance-educa…> for a more detailed description of the event
The webinar will take place in EDEN's Adobe connect room<https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/oew2018/>.
Click here<https://goo.gl/forms/KzovVCFxAIk9Lxzz1> to register for the event
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Challenges for quality of open educational resources
Tuesday, 6 March, 2018, 13:00 CET
Format: Panel discussion
Moderator: Wim van Petegem, EDEN Vice-president
Speakers: Airina Volungeviciene, Martin Weller, Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Svetlana Knyazeva, Ebba Ossiannilsson
Please click here<http://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/challenges-for-quality-of-open-e…> for a more detailed description of the event
The webinar will take place in EDEN's Adobe connect room<https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/oew2018/>.
Click here<https://goo.gl/forms/DfaDTss4Ja6VH32x2> to register for the event
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Grassroots open educators at work: challenges and ideas
Wednesday, 7 March, 2018 9:00 CET
Format: Debate panel
Moderator: Fabio Nascimbeni, EDEN Executive Committee member
Speakers: Mihaela Banek Zorica, Anna Maria Tammaro, Carmen Holotescu, Wayne Mackintosh
Please click here<http://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/grassroots-open-educators-at-wor…> for a more detailed description of the event
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How to promote academic integrity in online education - EDEN and SRCE joint event
Friday, 9 March, 2018 13:00 CET
Format: Panel discussion
Moderator: Sandra Kucina Softic, EDEN Vice-president
Speakers: Fredric M. Litto, Irene Glendinning, Chris Edwards
Please click here<http://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/how-to-promote-academic-integrit…> for a more detailed description of the event
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Hi there folks,
I would like to suggest this event on Friday:
TEACHING WITH WIKIPEDIA
Open Douglas invites you to join Will Engle for this hands-on introduction to using Wikipedia in the classroom.
Date: March 9, 2018
Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Location: Douglas College Library Classroom, New Westminster Campus, room N2100A
Register here:
https://open.bccampus.ca/open-education-week-events-calling-lower-mainland-…
Scroll down to the Douglas College events.
Hope to see some of you there
Rosario
[image002] Rosario Passos,
Instructional Development Consultant
Learning and Teaching Centre, BCIT
www.bcit.ca/ltc<../../../../../../All_Work_Data/www.bcit.ca/ltc>
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
Tel: (604) 456 1266
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Hi there everyone,
Lots of events happening in town to celebrate Open Education Week. Hope you are planning to attend at least one or two:
https://open.bccampus.ca/open-education-week-events-calling-lower-mainland-…
Cheers,
Rosario
[image002] Rosario Passos,
Instructional Development Consultant
Learning and Teaching Centre, BCIT
www.bcit.ca/ltc<../../../../../../All_Work_Data/www.bcit.ca/ltc>
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
Tel: (604) 456 1266
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Great news! Pressbooks has been making changes to the interface and functionality based on your feedback. The major release for the BCcampus Open Education Pressbooks instances is scheduled for later this month. Here’s a heads up of the changes that are on the way.
Most of the improvements are under the hood. However, there are a few big changes we would like to call to your attention.
First, a new look and feel is available for the network home page and catalog. The new standalone catalog page is sortable and filterable, for improved discovery.
Pressbooks has also given the webbook a much-needed makeover, with some added functionality. A wider book layout, better scrolling and navigation are just some of the enhancements. We have also updated the Open Textbook theme at BCcampus. A big thanks to Ryerson University for supporting the development of these changes.
The Luther theme will be retiring on the same day as the new release. In their place, Pressbooks is releasing two new themes, McLuhan and Jacobs. These two themes both offer expanded theme options, and both are designed with textbooks in mind. Their development has been generously funded by [ https://www.ecampusontario.ca/ | eCampus Ontario ] . We will be continuing to use the Open Textbooks as our default theme and the theme for the BCcampus open textbook collection.
We are thoroughly testing the updated Pressbooks prior to the release and these improvements should not cause any issues with your existing books. But, if anything does come up, let us know right away at [ mailto:helpdesk@bccampus.ca | helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca ]
Other changes include:
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Save Button: Pressbooks heard your pleas for a clearer way to save your chapters. It’s here! (In the past, the “save” button was named Update, Publish, or other variations based on the status of your post.) Note that when you create a new chapter, front or back matter section, you will first see a “Create” button, but subsequent changes can be saved by clicking on the new “Save” button.
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Contributor Management: Pressbooks added a centralized contributor management tool where you can add contributors who can then be reused throughout your book as authors, editors, translators, reviewers, illustrators, and generic contributors.
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Organize Page Improvements: Pressbooks revamped the Organize page, improving the display on mobile devices, and improving accessibility for keyboard navigation and screen reader users.
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Chapter Importing: Now, you can import individual chapters from public, openly licensed Pressbooks webbooks using the Import tool. All you need to drop is drop in the URL to a book, begin the import process, then select the chapters you wish to add to your book. (Content that is private, All Rights Reserved or that carries any of the Creative Commons Non-Derivative licenses cannot be imported.)
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Content Visibility: Pressbooks has made it more intuitive to manage the visibility of your content across web and exports. Now you can simply designate content visibility in web and exports on both the Organize page and the edit screen for individual front matter, chapters and back matter.
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Import Files from URL: You can now import supported file formats hosted on remote (web based) sources via URL. If you have files hosted elsewhere (with the right permissions), you no longer need to download and upload files, but can import them directly with just the URL.
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Ebook Start Point: Pressbooks has moved the ebook start point setting to the ebook Theme Options page to ensure that only one front matter, chapter, or back matter can be set as the ebook start point. (Note that Pressbooks tries to enforce the ebook start point you select. However, ereader devices may still override the start point you designate.)
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Language Support Changes: Pressbooks has renamed the Language Support section in Theme Options to Language & Script Support to better reflect its functionality; we’ve also re-labelled Hindi support to Devanagari, to clarify that the Devanagari script supports Hindi, Sanskrit, and over 120 other languages.
As always, please let us know if you have any questions or problems navigating the new features. You can contact us at [ mailto:helpdesk@bccampus.ca | helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca ]
Want to see how it looks?
Our team put together a [ https://youtu.be/rBJ7pU-xddE | screencast ] of the new interface and the changes that you will see when the release happens mid March.
[ https://youtu.be/rBJ7pU-xddE | https://youtu.be/rBJ7pU-xddE ]
Stay up to date
Interested in staying in the know on Pressbooks updates?
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Check [ https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-updates/ | https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-updates/ ]
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Attend one of the webinars we will be hosting reviewing the changes to the Pressbooks UI-
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Friday, March 9 from 10-11 am
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Tuesday March 13 from 10-11 am
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Thursday March 15 from 10-11 am
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Friday March 16 from 10-11 am
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Regards,
Lauri Aesoph, on behalf of the BCcampus Open Education team
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education
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