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Hi there fellow Open Educators,
It is with great excitement that I share the following official announcement with all of
you:
BCIT's Open Education Working Group is thrilled to announce that BCIT is the recipient
of a 2020 Open Education Sustainability Grant for Institutions from BCcampus.
The grant consists of $32,250 from BCcampus with matching funds from BCIT to support the
following initiatives:
BCIT Faculty Champion/Open Fellow Grant
This grant recipient will:
* expand open education advocacy with faculty and students
* liaise with the BCIT Student Association
* organize/participate in events and workshops
* conduct a small research project or survey focused on BCIT faculty or students and
the use of OER.
Find more information and the application form at https://open.bcit.ca/proposals
Closes November 3, 2019 for a January 2020 start.
BCIT Open Education Grant Program:
Continue the open education grant program. BCIT is in its fourth year of offering small
open education grants (up to $5K) to faculty to develop open education resources (OER) or
to redesign courses to incorporate open educational practices and open course materials.
To date, 24 grants have been awarded.
Call for proposals for the next round of grants will go out early January 2020
Trades Online Content Conversion:
Some time ago, BCcampus helped fund the creation of Tools for the Trades, an online
learning resource created with Adobe Flash. https://ltc.bcit.ca/multimedia/_SOC/trades/
The grant will help with the conversion of this resource into a sustainable and accessible
format.
Open Publishing Program:
Establish an open publishing program which will offer a variety of levels of support for
faculty including the following:
* convert instructor learning material already in digital format to PressBooks (if the
format allows conversion)
* support instructors who wish to work in PressBooks themselves - workshops and 1-1
support
The BCIT Open Education Working Group thanks James Rout, AVP Education Support and
Innovation, for his ongoing support of and advocacy for open education initiatives at
BCIT.
To find out more about Open Education at BCIT, visit open.bcit.ca
Cheers,
Rosario
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Rosario Passos
Instructional Development Consultant (IDC)
Learning and Teaching Centre
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
Tel: (604) 456 1266 rosario_passos@bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos@bcit.ca>
www.bcit.ca/ltc
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