Hello Everyone,

In addition to our regular updates, we are proud to announce the new BCcampus Open Education website, a repository for all things open. Check out the new look and feel, and improved access to essential open textbook resources.

New textbooks

Four new open textbooks have been added to the B.C. Open Textbook Collection, all from Canadian authors.

This 2018 remix and revision is from Aaron Thomas-Bolduc and Richard Zach at the University of Calgary. Its unique features include solutions to selected exercises (as an ancillary resource) and a digital PDF in a dyslexia-friendly font.

Also from the University of Calgary, this textbook is based on the Open Logic Project and is written by Richard Zach. It covers naive set theory, first-order logic, sequent calculus and natural deduction, the completeness, compactness, and Löwenheim-Skolem theorems, Turing machines, and the undecidability of the halting problem and of first-order logic.

This technical book, aimed primarily at programmers, comes from The Chang School at Ryerson University. Learn how to develop accessible interactivity on the Web and gain expertise using WAI-ARIA, a W3C specification that enables optimal use of assistive technologies, like screen readers, when navigating the Web. A link to all books in this series, hosted by Ryerson, is included.

Also from The Chang School at Ryerson, is this textbook, designed to demystify “digital accessibility” as a business practice. It brings together all the pieces of the digital accessibility picture, and provides strategies and resources that will help make digital accessibility a part of an organization’s business culture.

New ancillary resources

New ancillary resources are now available for Democracy in Brief including a summary and question bank, and PowerPoint slides. These resources were created by Dr. Janni Aragon from the University of Victoria with funding from a BCcampus OER Grant.

We are looking for Subject Matter Experts (SME) from B.C. or other parts of Canada to review textbooks being considered for the B.C. Open Textbook Collection   Contact bookreviews@bccampus.ca if you are interested.

Help us identify the gaps
Contact opentext@bccampus.ca if you would like to see open textbooks made available for specific subject areas in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection.

Best regards,
The BCcampus Open Ed team

Lauri Aesoph, BSc

Manager, Open Education
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