Dear colleagues,
Open Education Week is fast approaching! To celebrate, BCcampus is hosting an Open Education Challenge Series<https://oechallenge.opened.ca/about-the-open-education-challenge-series/> for educators interested in learning more about open education practices (OEP). From March 1 to March 5, we will release two challenges a day. A challenge is a micro activity that you can do in 10 minutes or less that will introduce a small aspect of open education.
Everyone is welcome to participate, but the challenges are designed for educators who are new to open education. Topics to explore include open licences, open textbooks, and perhaps even open pedagogy! This isn’t a bootcamp or crash course in open education: it’s more of a tasting buffet of appetizers, designed to allow even the most time-constrained educators to participate.
Please share this event with your departments and networks, especially those who are new to open education. Invite your colleagues to participate with you! It’s a great way to learn about OEP together. Here is the event page and where to register: OE Challenge Series 2021<https://bccampus.ca/event/open-education-challenge-series-2021/>
Sincerely,
The Facilitators: Carolee Clyne, Josie Gray, Clint Lalonde, Melanie Meyers, and Krista Lambert
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Hi there fellow Open Educators,
BCIT will host an Open Education Week<https://www.openeducationweek.org/> event on March 3, 12:30-1:20 to celebrate the success of four open education projects that were made possible by the support of the BCIT Open Education Grant program.
So, mark your calendars and come hear all about each project: challenges, process, student reaction/involvement, collaboration with colleagues, etc. while seeing a brief demo. The featured projects include:
* Helen Heacock - OJS - Environmental Public Health Journal: https://journals.bcit.ca/index.php/ehj
* Alex Tait and Helene Marcoux - Interviews with Plants video series
* John Dion & Reza Vahidnia - IOT open textbooks: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/iotbook/https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/vahidnia/
* Jen Kong - video lessons on human pathology
Register here: https://www.bcit.ca/event/open-projects-at-bcit-lightning-talks/
Hope to see some of you there!
Rosario
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Hi there fellow Open Educators,
Open Education Week<https://www.openeducationweek.org/> (OEW) is just around the corner: March 1-5. OEW is an annual, global event that aims to "raise awareness and showcase the impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide."
BCIT is co-hosting an event through the BC Open Education Librarians (BCOEL)<https://bcoel.ca/> group on Monday, March 1, 12:30 - 1:30pm, so save the date on your calendar! You can register for the event here<https://bccampus.ca/event/wicked-problems-and-open-remedies-a-student-centr…>.
Event title: Wicked Problems and Open Remedies: A student centered approach
On March 1st, please join us for this Open Education Week<https://www.openeducationweek.org/> event exploring wicked problems and open remedies. A wicked problem is one that is difficult or impossible to solve due to incomplete, contradictory, interconnected, and/or changing factors. A problem that requires a major change in practice, belief, or behaviour for many people is often a wicked problem. Drawing on this idea, we turn our attention to the wicked problem in higher education of empowering students in the classroom, and centre student voices in exploring the challenges and potential solutions for tackling this problem. This session will be opened and moderated by Arley Cruthers. Student panelists are Kristen Morgan (UBC Okanagan), Sophia Nguyen (SFU), and Caitlin Spreeuw (Douglas).
Featured speakers include: Arley Cruthers (Kwantlen), Kristen Morgan (UBC Okanagan), Sophia Nguyen (SFU), and Caitlin Spreeuw (Douglas).
Moderator: Donna Langille
Facilitator: Arley Cruthers
Arley Cruthers is a Paralympic medalist, novelist, and writing instructor. She won two World Championship gold medals and a bronze at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. She has received accolades for both her novels, Post and The Time We All Went Marching. She teaches Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where she also currently serves as the Open Education Teaching Fellow. She's also the author of the OER Business Writing for Everyone: An Inclusive Guide to Writing in the Workplace. Arley is passionate about open education, open pedagogy, ungrading, UDL and disability justice. She holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Student Panelists:
Kristen Morgan (she/her), UBC Okanagan
Kristen is a Physics and Maths student at UBC's Okanagan campus, where she works in the library as the Open Education Assistant and serves as a Senator-at-Large. She is passionate about the intersection of policy and advocacy, especially as they relate to sustainable long-term institutional changes. Her latest policy work addresses the prevalence of fee-based Digital Assessment Tools (pay-to-play online homework systems) in the undergraduate student experience, and reimagining assessment activities in an increasingly online environment. You can find Kristen on Twitter @KrisTheMorg.
Sophia Nguyen, SFU
Sophia Nguyen worked on a group project for an IAT 330 class that resulted in a children's book on textile sustainability titled "Jordan and the Magic Cape<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmonographs…>" that has just been published via Open Monograph Press (OMP) with support from the Library.
Caitlin Spreeuw, Douglas College
Caitlin Spreeuw is a science student currently studying at Douglas College with hopes of getting into the Faculty of Science at SFU. She is the Director of External Relations at the Douglas Students' Union, and through this role she has had the opportunity to be a part of the Open Douglas working group. Students face a lot of financial pressures due to post-secondary education; tuition fees are at an all-time high, and with the extra costs of purchasing textbooks and academic materials, students often struggle to come up with the funds they need. Caitlin is interested in open education because it is an initiative that will save students a lot of money in the long run, and help relieve that financial burden.
Cheers,
Rosario
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Learning and Teaching Centre
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
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Hi there fellow Open Educators,
This is a great read about digital literacy (I argue fluency) and misinformation and using the SIFT method:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-attention.html
Caulfield is a well known Ed Tech guy and had been a fierce advocate of Open Pedagogy, especially in content co-creation involving students.
I thought some of you might enjoy the read.
Cheers,
Rosario
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Instructional Development Consultant (IDC)
Learning and Teaching Centre
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
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Hi there fellow Open Educators!
So... the Open Education Working Group hasn't met for a while... in fact... we have not had an official group meeting since the pandemic started! Yikes... but we are meeting next week! And we hope you can join us!
Thursday, February 25, 12:30 - 13:30. Everyone is welcome.
Items on the Agenda:
1. Open Ed Week events
2. Rebranding Open BCIT & new website
3. Annual report
4. WG relationship to EdCo
5. Open ed grants update
6. Open BCIT projects
7. Sustainability of Open at BCIT
Join Zoom Meeting
https://bcit.zoom.us/j/86819409772?pwd=WjA3NlhhTDdhNTJiMktpMUdoNG02Zz09
Meeting ID: 868 1940 9772
Password: 700095
So, mark your calendars, and wehope to see some of you in the zoom room!
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
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Hi there fellow Open Educators,
This webinar may be of interest to some of you:
CARL Webinar : Implementing the CARL Copyright OER for University Instructors and Staff on campus
Date: February 25, 2021
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm ET
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_durbBze3SdmxJEVN0KkGJw<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.z…>
In December 2020, CARL released the Copyright Open Educational Resource for University Instructors and Staff. This self-directed course is currently being adapted for use at a number of universities across Canada.
Join four of the working group members that helped build this course - Stephanie Orfano (University of Toronto), Mark Swartz (Queen’s University), Christina Winter (University of Regina) and Rowena Johnson (University of Calgary) - for an hour-long panel discussion related to how each university is approaching course implementation at their institutions. The discussion will include: tools and techniques institutions are using to implement the course, approaches for different learning management systems (Brightspace, Canvas, Moodle), and possible strategies for encouraging course completion.
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Webinaire de l’ABRC : Mise en œuvre de la REL sur le droit d’auteur de l’ABRC à l’intention du corps professoral et du personnel des universités
Date : 25 février 2021
Heure : 15h à 16h (heure de l'Est)
Inscrivez-vous ici : https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_durbBze3SdmxJEVN0KkGJw<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.z…>
En décembre 2020, l'ABRC a publié la Ressource éducative libre sur le droit d’auteur de l’ABRC à l’intention du corps professoral et du personnel des universités. Ce cours autodidacte est en cours d'être adapté pour être utilisé dans un certain nombre d'universités à travers le Canada.
Joignez-vous à cette discussion de 60 minutes avec quatre membres du groupe de travail qui ont contribués à l'élaboration de ce cours - Stephanie Orfano (Université de Toronto), Mark Swartz (Université Queen's), Christina Winter (Université de Regina) et Rowena Johnson (Université de Calgary) - sur la façon dont chaque université aborde la mise en œuvre du cours dans son établissement. La discussion portera notamment sur les outils et les techniques que les établissements utilisent pour mettre en œuvre le cours, les approches des différents systèmes de gestion de l'apprentissage (Brightspace, Canvas, Moodle) et les stratégies possibles pour encourager l'achèvement des cours.
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Hi there fellow Open Eductaors,
Just a reminder that the call for proposals for the 2021 Pressbooks H5P OER Development grant<https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/2021-pressbooks-h5p-oer-deve…> closes Feb 5.
You might be interested in putting in a proposal to develop some H5P objects for the Open Textbook Collection
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
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Hello fellow Open Educators,
Please join me in congratulating John Dian and Reza Vahidnia! The open textbook they authored with the support of an Open Education Grant has been added to the BC Open Textbook Collection!
IoT Use Cases and Technologies<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.bcca…> by F. John Dian, Reza Vahidnia
Excellent work!! Way to go School of Energy!
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
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Hi there fellow Open Educators!
Do you have an idea for curriculum development that you would like to implement? Would you consider making those resources "open"? If so, then this news is for you! I am very pleased to let you know that the 2020/2021 Call for Proposals for Open Education Grants is open until February 15. There are two categories of grants:
1. Continuing Grant Categories for Individuals
Adoption - up to $250 - review and adopt an open textbook or other open learning resource, this can include minor revisions to customize it
Revision - up to $2K - take an existing OER and make substantial revisions to better suit class learning outcomes
Creation - up to $8K - create a learning resource - this can be in any category or format, eg.: textbook, video series, question or test banks
2. Department Open Education Grant - up to $15,000 - this grant goes directly to departments to adopt, revise, or create open education resources. These learning materials must be openly licensed and deposited into the BCIT Open Institutional Repository in an editable format. Use the Department application form below.
To download the application form, go to the Open Education at BCIT site<https://open.bcit.ca/>.
Look forward to seeing some applications come in!
Cheers,
Rosario
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Learning and Teaching Centre
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
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