Hi there fellow Open Educators!
Here's an invite for one of the events that UBC will be hosting during Open Education Week. Sounds really interesting :) Hope some of you can make it, and please share widely within your networks
Rosario
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The First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and UBC Library will be hosting an Honouring Indigenous Writers Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipe…> on March 2nd from 1-4pm at the Sty-Wet-Tan Hall in the First Nations Longhouse at UBC Vancouver campus.
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia based on a model of open community-generated knowledge. This edit-a-thon is seeking to improve the coverage of Indigenous writers on Wikipedia and to encourage diverse community editors to actively work to dissuade assumptions about Indigenous literature by raising their profile in this increasingly influential information source. Attendees will pick authors from a list of Indigenous authors who have approved their inclusion in this event and edit/create their Wikipedia articles.
The event is free, catered, and features guest speakers who will share their experiences as Indigenous authors. Please bring your own laptop.
Event page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/HonouringIndigenousWriters/U…<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipe…>
If you are interested in developing your own Honouring Indigenous Writers Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, we would love to support you in this work. You can find the planning materials here: https://t.co/yIyk1QF2E0?amp=1<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FyI…>
Please let us know of your interest! And if you are available, we would love to have you at the March 2 event!
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Rosario Passos
Instructional Development Consultant (IDC)
Learning and Teaching Centre
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
Tel: (604) 456 1266 rosario_passos(a)bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos@bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc
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Dear colleagues,
BCcampus has identified gaps in available open educational resources (OER) for marketing programs in British Columbia. BCcampus will distribute grants to B.C. institutions or their representatives (e.g., faculty members, articulation committees, teaching and learning centres, libraries, and OER working groups) in B.C. and the Yukon for the development of open educational resources in marketing that will contribute to the development of B.C.’s first Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) program in marketing. The OER Creation for Marketing grant may be used for, but is not limited to, the creation of open textbooks/ancillaries/open educational resources in the following subject areas:
* Research methods for marketing
* Consumer behaviour
* Strategic marketing management
* Integrated marketing communication
* E-marketing/digital marketing
* Marketing plan development guide
Full details can be found here (closing date is February 7):
https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/call-for-proposals-marketing…
Regards,
Sent on behalf of Melanie Meyers
<https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/call-for-proposals-marketing…>
Hi there fellow Open Educators,
It is with great excitement that I share the news that Chad Flinn<https://loop.bcit.ca/people/cflinn1> is BCIT's inaugural Open Education Faculty Champion! The BCIT Open Education Group is thrilled to be working with Chad to advance Open Education at BCIT through awareness and advocacy. If you already knew this, you might have seen the formal announcement in the Loop<https://loop.bcit.ca/groups/bcit-news/blog/2020/01/08/bcits-open-education-…>!
Chad is a provincial leader in Open Education, who walks the talk by integrating Open Pedagogy into his teaching in the classroom. You can see a video of the work he has been doing here:
https://vimeo.com/383855783
Also, in June 2019 he was awarded BCcampus' Award for Excellence in Open Education<https://bccampus.ca/2019/06/27/award-for-excellence-in-open-education-chad-…>.
So, please join me in congratulating Chad and welcoming him to the Open Education Group at BCIT!
Cheers,
Rosario
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Rosario Passos
Instructional Development Consultant (IDC)
Learning and Teaching Centre
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
Tel: (604) 456 1266 rosario_passos(a)bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos@bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc
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Hi there fellow Open Educators!
Some of you may already have seen the announcement about the call for applications for the 2020 Open Education Grants in several places:
* In the Library Blog post<https://commons.bcit.ca/library/2020/01/06/open-education-grants-at-bcit-ap…>
* On the BCIT Open Education site<https://open.bcit.ca/proposals>
* In the Loop<https://loop.bcit.ca/people/lbrander/blog/2020/01/08/open-education-grants-…>
So, have you submitted your application yet? You have until February 2, 2020 to submit an application, and the work must be completed by March 2021.
Get all the information you need to apply here:
https://commons.bcit.ca/library/2020/01/06/open-education-grants-at-bcit-ap…
Best of luck to all of you who are considering putting in an application.
Cheers,
Rosario
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Rosario Passos
Instructional Development Consultant (IDC)
Learning and Teaching Centre
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
Tel: (604) 456 1266 rosario_passos(a)bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos@bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc
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Hi there fellow Open Educators,
In the following video, our own Chad Flin shares his approaches to integrating Open Pedagogy to transform his teaching practice and enhance learners' experiences. It is worth watching!
https://vimeo.com/383855783
Thanks Chad for all the work you do!
Rosario
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Rosario Passos
Instructional Development Consultant (IDC)
Learning and Teaching Centre
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
Tel: (604) 456 1266 rosario_passos(a)bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos@bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc
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Hello there fellow Open Educators!
And a very happy 2020 to you!
I didn't want to share this article in December as I thought it would get lost in the long list of emails you would all be clearing upon your return to work early in 2020... :) but here it goes now, and I hope you find a little bit of time to read it.
This article explores how open educators are using open pedagogy (the use of OER and OEP to stimulate autonomous learning and engage students as creators of information) to change "...their teaching and learning in a practical way." The article reports on research carried out in Post-Secondary institutions in BC to explore "...how faculty are beginning to use open technologies and knowledge in ways that impact their pedagogy."
I hope you enjoy the reading:
Practicalities of implementing open pedagogy in higher education<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40561-019-0110-5>
Cheers,
Rosario
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Rosario Passos
Instructional Development Consultant (IDC)
Learning and Teaching Centre
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
Tel: (604) 456 1266 rosario_passos(a)bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos@bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc
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