Hi there fellow open educators!
This MOOC on "Introduction to Technology-Enabled Learning" starts at the end of October and seems it may be an interesting course if you want to expand your knowledge about using technology in teaching and learning. The MOOC is offered by Athabasca University with the support of The Commonwealth of Learning.
For a course description and to register, check out the link:
https://www.telmooc.org<https://www.telmooc.org/>
Feel free to circulate this information through your networks.
Cheers,
Rosario
Hi there fellow open educators,
And here is an update on new open textbooks available from College Open Textbooks. May be interesting to browse the site to see if there’s anything you might find useful,
Cheers,
Rosario
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An Update on the New College Open Textbooks
Since our re-launch in April, we've been adding content and kicked off an exciting new project. Take a few moments and share our progress below.
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Textbook Listings
Since April, we've added over 50 open textbooks to our listings. They include the complete catalog from the University of Georgia's Galileo repository and seven new 2nd editions from OpenStax. These new titles bring our total listings to over 750 open textbooks.
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Peer Reviews
Peer reviews are more prominent on our new site, and this has led to an increase in the number of educators who are offering to join our distinguished panel of peer reviewers. We've added eight new reviews since April, with more in the pipeline.
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Success Stories
Success stories are a new initiative, and we're off to a great start. Our Youtube channel<https://cts.vrmailer1.com/click?sk=aNIoB2JgPjBJIdkdbAPAF5I8BAFwBvTA_DHF39CQ…'%22%5d(?%3Curl%3E%5b%5E%7B%22%5d.+?)%5b%22%5d)&href_id_source=vr2-href-id-source-9> now has seven video stories from adopters, creators, and even a student testimonial. We hope that you will view these inspiring stories and pass them along to colleagues who may be considering creating or adopting OER for their classes. Subscribe to the channel and you'll be notified as soon as new stories are posted.
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We're Building an Open Textbook Search Engine
Much has changed in the OER universe since we first created College Open Textbooks. Ten years ago, most open textbooks were self-published and scattered widely across the web. Today we're seeing a steady increase in the number of curated repositories.
College Open Textbooks has a small team of volunteer web developers working on an application to mine those repositories. Our prototype currently searches the repositories of five organizations who have partnered with us (BC Campus, UGA's Galileo, Orange Grove, OpenStax, and SUNY), as well as College Open Textbooks' own listings.
We're excited to announce that Charles Key, the Search Engine program manager, will present our progress in two weeks at the upcoming Open Education Conference. If you're at the conference, we invite you to attend our round table presentation on Thursday, October 11 at 9:45 AM.
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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
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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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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
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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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Outreach College, Dean's Office
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
oer.hawaii.edu<https://oer.hawaii.edu>
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