Dear colleagues,
A reminder that all Canadian faculty, librarians, bookstore staff, and students are invited to participate in the Canadian Distribution of OpenStax hardcover textbooks<https://sfu-bccampus.cmail20.com/t/d-l-qcjdty-ehldhkki-jl/> survey, ending on April 30. All responses are anonymous. Final results will be shared out later this year.
BCcampus in partnership with Vretta<https://www.vretta.com/ordering.html> and the Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative<https://openedmb.ca/> is surveying Canadian post-secondary institutions about their knowledge about/adoption of/suggested improvements to the distribution of OpenStax’s hardbound books in Canada<https://bccampus.ca/2021/02/23/hard-back-openstax-books-come-to-canada/>, and the usage of and need for printed open textbooks in general.
Regards,
Lauri Aesoph
laesoph(a)bccampus.ca
Arianna Cheveldave
Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus
Email: acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave@bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn: ariannacheveldave<https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arianna-cheveldave> • Pronouns: She/her
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Hello fellow Open Educators,
I know some of you are working with LaTeX on your open textbooks…. So you might find this information helpful. See below.
Cheers,
Rosario
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Dear colleagues,
In collaboration with open-education librarians in B.C., BCcampus is happy to announce the newly formed LaTeX Learning Community<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbccampus.…>, which began providing one-hour drop-in sessions last month. These sessions provide assistance to a broad range of users tackling LaTeX<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopentextb…> in Pressbooks, from beginners to experienced users.
While these sessions are limited to members of the B.C. and Yukon post-secondary systems, each session will be recorded and posted in BCcampus's Events Archives<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbccampus.…>. A recording of the first (March 17, 2021<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopentextb…>) drop-in session is now available. To complement the recordings, a new LaTeX Questions Answered<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopentextb…> section has been added to the BCcampus Pressbooks Guide<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopentextb…>.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact me.
Best,
Arianna Cheveldave
Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus
Email: acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave@bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn: ariannacheveldave<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fca.linked…> • Pronouns: She/her
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I acknowledge that the land I live, work, and play on is the unceded territory of the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. I thank them for their hospitality.
