Dear fellow Open educators,
Open Education Week<https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/pages/about/> celebrates the worldwide achievements in Open Education. This year, this international event takes place March 6 to 10. There are lots of events happening during that week and I hope you can take some time to attend some, either virtually or in person. Check out BCcampus calendar of events<https://bccampus.ca/events/> for information on what will be happening around town that week.
The celebration of Open Education Week will kick-off in style at BCIT. Open Educator and recipient of the 2021 Teaching Excellence in Open Education, Employee Excellence Award, Julia Alards-Tomalin will present The collaborative creation of Buds, Branches and Bark: a Guide to Winter Identification in the Pacific Northwest<https://bcit.libcal.com/event/3718608>, a BCIT OER textbook at Food For Thought on Monday, March 6, at 12:30, in the Summit Centre, Library. This is an in-person event with a light lunch provided.
Hope to see some of you there!
Cheers,
Rosario
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Rosario Passos
Instructional Development Consultant (IDC)
Learning and Teaching Centre (LTC)
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
Education for a Complex World
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Hi there fellow Open Educators,
I thought some of you might be interested in the following:
This message is sent on behalf of Josie Gray (jgray(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:jgray@bccampus.ca>).
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Dear B.C. Open Education Community,
This year, BCcampus will be funding two adaptation projects focused on making open textbooks more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. The books selected are well adopted in British Columbia, but it has been a number of years since they were updated.
As a first step, we are looking for two people to review each book using an Equity in OER Rubric. Applications are due by the end of the day on March 13, 2023.
For more information, see the calls for reviewers:
* Call for Equity Reviewers: Introduction to Psychology - 1st Canadian Edition<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbccampus.…>
* Call for Equity Reviewers: Introduction to Sociology - 2nd Canadian Edition<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbccampus.…>
If you have questions, please contact Josie Gray, manager of production and publishing, at jgray(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:jgray@bccampus.ca>. Please pass these calls on to anyone in your network who may be interested in this opportunity.
Sincerely,
Josie Gray
Hello fellow Open Educators,
Just a friendly reminder that the nominations for BCIT’s Employee Excellence Awards<https://www.bcit.ca/human-resources/employee-recognition/employee-excellenc…> close on March 1!!
Remember that there is a category for Teaching Excellence in Open Education<https://www.bcit.ca/open/faculty-in-the-open/teaching-excellence-in-open-ed…> and we would love to see someone nominated again this year! Last year’s worthy recipient was Julia Alards-Tomalin<https://www.bcit.ca/open/faculty-in-the-open/julia-alards-tomalin/>.
The recipient will be awarded $1,000. And the nominations are open until March 1.
So, take some time and make a nomination or encourage one of your peers to make a nomination. Let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Rosario
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Rosario Passos
Instructional Development Consultant (IDC)
Learning and Teaching Centre (LTC)
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
Education for a Complex World
Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
I acknowledge that BCIT campuses are located on unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations
Hello fellow open educators,
I saw this open textbook published by OPUS at KPU and thought that some of you may be interested, or know someone who might be interested. I know we have a Forensics program at BCIT… maybe someone can share with someone from that program?
Cheers,
Rosario
Introduction to Criminology
Edited by Dr. Shereen Hassan and Dan Lett, MAS
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Link to Resource: Introduction to Criminology<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkpu.press…>
Although this open education resource (OER) is written with the needs and abilities of first-year undergraduate criminology students in mind, it is designed to be flexible. As a whole, the OER is amply broad to serve as the main textbook for an introductory course, yet each chapter is deep enough to be useful as a supplement for subject-area courses; authors use plain and accessible language as much as possible, but introduce more advanced, technical concepts where appropriate; the text gives due attention to the historical “canon” of mainstream criminological thought, but it also challenges many of these ideas by exploring alternative, critical, and marginalized perspectives. After all, criminology is more than just the study of crime and criminal law; it is an examination of the ways human societies construct, contest, and defend ideas about right and wrong, the meaning of justice, the purpose and power of laws, and the practical methods of responding to broken rules and of mending relationships.
Special thanks to Leah Ballantyne, LLB LLM, a Cree lawyer from the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Pukatawagan, Manitoba, who provided expert Indigenous consultation/editing for this textbook.
This OER was jointly funded and supported by KPU Arts, KPU OER Grants, KPU OPUS, BCcampus and the Justice Institute of BC.
Check out the KPU Pressbooks Catalogue<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkpu.press…> of works published by the Open Publishing Suite (OPUS)<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kpu.c…> at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Learn more about KPU Open Education<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kpu.ca…>.
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