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* The BCcampus Open Education Authoring Guide has been archived.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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Excuse the cross postings:
Join us for the Cascadia Open Education Summit, formerly known as the BC Open Textbook Summit, in beautiful Vancouver, B.C. on April 17 & 18, 2019 at SFU Harbour Centre. This event is co-hosted with our regional friends; Lumen Learning, Open Oregon Educational Resources, and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
This event is for new and experienced OER advocates offering the opportunity to learn and share effective practices in awareness building, implementation, collaboration, strategy, and research.
Theme: Scaling New Heights with Open Education.
Example topics include:
* What are the current challenges and opportunities for open education? Do you have creative solutions for how to take them on?
* How is the ecosystem around OER evolving, and what are the implications for this evolution?
* As OER enters mainstream curriculum, what are the implications for institutions? Faculty? Libraries? Students? Other stakeholders?
Event details:
* Day 1 will include 2 keynotes and conference proceedings with presentations, panel presentations, and table talks.
* Day 2 is our Day of Action Focused OER Workshops. A series of workshops will be presented (2 hours each) and is intended for people looking for support in achieving the next step in their OER work or initiative.
Keynotes:
Heather M. Ross, Educational Development Specialist, University of Saskatchewan and Karen Cangialosi, Professor of Biology, Keene State College Who should attend:
People engaged in higher education focused open education initiatives, including students, faculty, librarians, instructional technologists, administrators, and other campus leaders.
Further details will emerge as the program committee meets – stay informed about the call for proposals via #casacadiaopened and through [ https://bccampus.ca/ | our website. ]
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Hi there fellow Open Educators,
I received this gem from CCCOER with links to open textbooks and resources for a multitude of subject areas:
MECH 1130 is Mechanical Engineering Statics
MECH 1150 is Manufacturing Materials and Processes
MECH 2242 is Strength of Materials
MECH 2270 is Engineering Statistics
ENGT 1200 is Intro to Industrial and Systems Engineering
ENGT 1250 is Motors and Logic Controls
ENGT 1251 is Control Logic and PLCs
ENGT 2260 is Basic Mechanisms and Drives
The EET spreadsheet contains resource in our Electronic Engineering Series all in one spreadsheet:
EET 1105 is Basic DC Electronic Systems
EET 1115 is Basic Digital Systems
EET 1125 is Basic AC Electronic Systems
EET 1135 is Electronic Switching and Amplifying Systems
EET 2225 is Embedded Micro-controller Systems
So, see if you can share these resources across your schools/departments. Maybe some of these resources can replace an expensive textbook!
Cheers,
Rosario
From: cccoer-advisory(a)googlegroups.com <cccoer-advisory(a)googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Rachel Dilley
Sent: September 24, 2018 11:18 AM
To: CCCOER Advisory <cccoer-advisory(a)googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: engineering - drafting & design
Hi Heather:
I am attaching a series of spreadsheets which contain tabs/sheets for both OER and for library eBooks, to which your own library may or may not have subscriptions
MECH 1130 is Mechanical Engineering Statics
MECH 1150 is Manufacturing Materials and Processes
MECH 2242 is Strength of Materials
MECH 2270 is Engineering Statistics
ENGT 1200 is Intro to Industrial and Systems Engineering
ENGT 1250 is Motors and Logic Controls
ENGT 1251 is Control Logic and PLCs
ENGT 2260 is Basic Mechanisms and Drives
The EET spreadsheet contains resource in our Electronic Engineering Series all in one spreadsheet:
EET 1105 is Basic DC Electronic Systems
EET 1115 is Basic Digital Systems
EET 1125 is Basic AC Electronic Systems
EET 1135 is Electronic Switching and Amplifying Systems
EET 2225 is Embedded Micro-controller Systems
Materials in some of these spreadsheets is extremely sparse! Make sure to open all the tabs at the bottom.
I hope this helps!
Rachel Dilley
OER Librarian
Columbus State Community College
On Monday, September 17, 2018 at 10:44:53 AM UTC-4, Heather Ross wrote:
Rachel,
Our College of Engineering is looking at resigning the first year and would like to do as much of it using OER. Do you have a spreadsheet of resources for your entire curriculum?
Thank you.
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: heathe...(a)usask.ca<javascript:>
http://teaching.usask.ca/index.php
Find open textbooks and other open educational resources on:
http://open.usask.ca
On Sep 17, 2018, 7:45 AM -0600, Rachel Dilley <racheld...(a)gmail.com<javascript:>>, wrote:
Hi Paul:
Engineering is a difficult area. I recently searched for OER for our entire engineering curriculum. I've attached my search spreadsheet for our Engineering Graphics course. There are four sheets/tabs in the Excel file attached. The library resources tab may have ebooks or articles for which your library has access.
Thanks,
Rachel Dilley, MLIS
Open Educational Resources Librarian - Reference & Instruction
Columbus Hall | Library
COLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
550 East Spring Street, Columbus, OH 43215
PH (614) 287-2895 | rdil...(a)cscc.edu<javascript:>
On Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 3:57:00 PM UTC-4, Paul Bond wrote:
I have a professor who's interested in engineering OER texts, particularly drafting and engineering design. I'm not seeing much in those two areas. Is anyone aware of resources for these?
Thanks,
Paul
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SUNY Broome Community College
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Hello fellow open educators,
BCIT is teaming up with UBC, SFU, KPU, UFV and Langara College to host a panel discussion event on October 24 in the early evening, at SFU downtown, to celebrate Open Access Week<http://openaccessweek.org/>, Oct 22-28.
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"Open Access Week, a global event now entering its tenth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research." For more info on OAW click here<http://www.openaccessweek.org/page/about>.
The theme for this year's Open Access Week is "Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge<"Designing%20Equitable%20Foundations%20for%20Open%20Knowledge">" and our panel will address issues around "Open but not Free: Invisible Labour in Open Scholarship<https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/33758>" and the impact on the sustainability of the Open Movement.
If you are interested, please register<https://www.lib.sfu.ca/node/33758/sfu_register>. There will be a wine and cheese reception prior to the event!
I hope to see some of you there.
Rosario
Hi there fellow Open Educators,
Not sure if there’s someone from the School of Business in our midst, but if there is, maybe you can share this information on oepntextbooks for Business.
Cheers,
Rosario
Subject: Business Ethics, Intro to Business are both published!
Can you please forward to your Business departments if/as you feel comfortable doing so?
Hi everyone,
OpenStax's Introduction to Business<https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-business> and Business Ethics<https://openstax.org/details/books/business-ethics> books have published! Later this year, we’ll be adding faculty ancillaries to the site as well, including PowerPoint slides and test banks to the “Instructor Resources” tab on the website. Faculty can sign-up to be pre-approved to get the instructor resources here: https://accounts.openstax.org/signup.
The .pdf, online view (which is accessible) are completely free. We will be offering low-cost print options via Amazon and your college bookstore soon. We’ll also be developing an iBooks version ($6.99) and a free Amazon Kindle Version of the books. And the benefits go beyond cost savings, the books are both licensed CC-BY, which means they can do whatever they’d like with the content (no copyright restrictions) as long as they provide attribution.
In 2019, we’ll be publishing four more business titles:
* Entrepreneurship
* Accounting 1 & 2
* Organizational Behavior
* Management
If faculty would like to receive emails, letting them know the progress of these books and when they will publish, they can sign-up here: https://openstax.org/interest
And, we already have published a Business Statistics<https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-business-statistics> book.
Cheers!
Nicole
[Rice and OpenStax Logo]
nicole finkbeiner
DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS
OpenStax, Rice University [Phone] (713) 348-2972 [Web] openstax.org<http://openstax.org>
Hello fellow open educators at BCIT!
Please see the message shared by colleagues from University of Hawaii. If you are thinking of starting your own Open Textbook, I’d recommend the OER Training book highlighted below. Looks really great!
Cheers,
Rosario
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Aloha All-
We are proud to share out another batch of OER textbooks created by instructors and faculty at the University of Hawaii.
Please share with your networks that may be interested in the subject matter and/or the content. Each text is available under a CC BY license and in a range of file formats (PDF, XML, ePub, etc) for download and reuse in whichever way best suits instructors and learners. Mahalo to the Pressbooks and Rebus Foundation teams for their continued development of free software and collaborative processes for developing these books.
http://oer.hawaii.edu/september-2018-uh-oer-releases-communicology-building…
Of special interest to many on this list in my own OER Training Manual, the Pressbook used to support instructors at UH who wish to get up to speed with OER quickly. Clear learning objectives are identified at the beginning of each of the three chapters, with formative practice/assessment items embedded right into the online version of the book. Gold stars await those who answer correctly.
I encourage others (that's you!) to reuse the OER training manual and share back your own improvement and iterations.
Your pal in the open space,
Billy
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Open Educational Resources (OER) Technologist
Outreach College, Dean's Office
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
oer.hawaii.edu<https://oer.hawaii.edu>
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Hi there fellow Open Educators,
This sounds like a great search engine for open resources. Give it a tray and let us know how things go.
Cheers,
Rosario
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Please excuse cross-posting...
Hello all,
Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo is excited to share with you an OER search tool that we have developed called OASIS<https://oasis.geneseo.edu/> (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search). We have gathered more than 155,000+ records from 52 different sources that have been carefully selected in collaboration with SUNY OER Services. With OER becoming more prevalent, and hearing from our faculty that the discovery of OER can be quite difficult, we developed OASIS with the goal of making the discovery of open content easier. Some of the features of OASIS include the ability to limit search results by license, type, subject, source, and reviews available. Through OASIS, you can also suggest new sources to be added to the catalog and/or share items of interest through email. We also created a search widget<https://oasis.geneseo.edu/about.php> that can be embedded in any website. If you decide to use the search widget on your website we would love to know.
Here is the link to the press release for OASIS<https://www.geneseo.edu/news/milne-library-colleagues-launch-oasis> from SUNY Geneseo.
Please share any feedback that you may have with Bill Jones (jonesw(a)geneseo.edu<mailto:jonesw@geneseo.edu>) and Ben Rawlins (rawlins(a)geneseo.edu<mailto:rawlins@geneseo.edu>). Thanks.
