Hello Everyone,

Here are our updates for November.

OpenStax/Pressbooks survey

In consultation with OpenStax, we are conducting a survey of faculty and others at B.C. post-secondary institutions regarding the demand for Pressbooks files of OpenStax textbooks for adaptation purposes. If you are interested in participating, please fill out this survey form before November 30, 2018.

New ancillary resources

A set of five open case studies (Sustainable Food Systems on Campus) created by UBC, funded in part by a BCcampus OER, are now available.
Storybooks Canada has been added as an ancillary resource to these ELL books in the BC collection: In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook and In the Workplace: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook

New additions to the OER by Discipline Guide

The OER by Discipline Guide is a reference of open educational resources listed by subject area and discipline, and maintained by Josie Gray, the BCcampus Coordinator of Collection Quality. This guide is updated as new resources are identified. Below are the latest additions.

See the Engineering section for new courses, videos/simulations, textbooks, and ancillary resources.
Study Zone (University of Victoria) ,and courses Project I-DEA and American Engish Speech have been added to the Upgrading/English Language Learning (ESL) section.
Sustainable Forest Management Open Course (UBC) has been added to the Science/Forestry section.
Anatomy and Physiology Videos have been added to the Science/Anatomy section.

Suggestion for the Collection form - improved

To assist those submitting book suggestions, we have added to this form a checklist of the criteria required for open textbooks posted in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection .

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.

Regards,

The BCcampus Open Education team

Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education

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