Hello Everyone,
Happy Friday! See below for new and updated open textbooks in our collection, news about our support resources, and information about the open peer reviews posted by open textbooks.
New books
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=fb061187-187c-4272-8ba1-… | Speaking and Writing Punjabi ] by Ranbir Johal (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=db971e1f-dee2-4032-99b4-… | Combinatorics: an upper-level introductory course in enumeration, graph theory, and design theory ]
, by Joy Morris (University of Lethbridge
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=8880b4d1-7f62-42fc-a912-… | Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations ] by Michelle Bonczek Evory (Open SUNY)
Updated books
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=e12e3911-8a06-497e-b8c9-… | A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB ] by Serhat Beyenir (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
* [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=3ffb8117-dc5a-4197-b0ed-… | Biology 2e ] , from OpenStax, has been added to our collection. The older edition will be archived on June 1, 2018.
Support resources
* The BCcampus Open Education Authoring Guide has been archived. This resource was replaced by the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=1d31f3b7-dd9f-4f47-97eb-… | Self-Publishing Guide ] , added in February.
*
Find attached a zipped file containing the editable files for the BCcampus [ https://bccampus.ca/files/2018/05/OpenEdInfoSheet_Spring2018_03.pdf | Open Education Info Sheet – Spring 2018 ]
Reviews
* Starting March 18, 2018, the licence for published reviews changed from CC BY-ND to CC BY. (Older reviews still retain the CC BY-ND designation.) This was done to more easily share reviews with other collections. This information, along with a statement clarifying that the copyright for reviews is held by the reviewer, has been clarified on the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-proposals/call-for-reviewers-2/ | Review an Open Textbook ] web page on our website.
*
When open textbooks are replaced with new editions, PDFs of the reviews for the older edition are now compiled in a zip file and posted by the new version of the textbook. A README file is included in the zipped file explaining this arrangement and the reason for it.
Best regards,
The BCcampus Open Education team
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovat e .
250-893-0258 | laesoph(a)bccampus.ca | Skype lauri.aesoph
120-645 Fort Street | Coast & Straits Salish Territory | Victoria, BC | V8W1G2
[ https://mail.bccampus.ca/bccampus.ca | BCcampus.ca ] | @BCcampus | #BCcampus
Sign up for [ https://bccampus.ca/bccampus-around-the-web/ | BCcampus news ]
Dear colleagues,
If you would like to adapt an open textbook (e.g., to localize/contextualize it) or create some openly-licensed content (e.g., modules, videos, question banks, etc.) to support your classes, please consider applying for an OER grant. The application form is brief and the turnaround time for a decision rapid. With this grant you can quickly get up to $2000 to support your project, which you could use for ~125 hours of student assistant support. For more information please visit: http://www.kpu.ca/open/grants
Questions about this grant or the application process? Please send an email to open(a)kpu.ca<mailto:open@kpu.ca>
Cheers,
Rajiv
From: Openkpu <openkpu-bounces(a)mail.bccampus.ca> on behalf of Rajiv Jhangiani <rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca>
Date: Monday, July 23, 2018 at 12:15 PM
To: KPU Open Education listserv <openkpu(a)mail.bccampus.ca>
Subject: [Openkpu] OER Grants: New application cycle & revised application form
Dear colleagues,
As you may know, KPU has offered small OER grants for the past two years to those interested in creating, adapting, and adopting OERs. These grants are jointly funded by BCcampus and the Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic and thus far have been used to support OER projects in Academic & Career Preparation, Languages & Cultures, Sociology, Asian Studies, English Language Studies, and the Learning Centres.
I am writing to inform you that the Open Education Working Group has recently revised the application process for these grants from rolling applications to 1 application deadline per semester (May 1, September 1, and January 15). For information about these grants (including eligible expenses, expectations, and evaluation criteria) and the brief application form, please visit: http://www.kpu.ca/open/grants
Thank you,
Rajiv
________________________
Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.
Special Advisor to the Provost on Open Education & Psychology Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University<http://www.kpu.ca/arts/psychology>
Associate Editor, Psychology Learning and Teaching<http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202353>
Ambassador, Center for Open Science<https://osf.io/>
BCcampus is looking for instructors to review existing open textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection<https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/>.
An honorarium of $250 will be paid to eligible and qualified individuals who complete, submit, and permit the open publication of their review for a textbook in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection<https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/>. All reviews must be approved by BCcampus Open Education before they are posted and payment is made to the reviewer.
Answers provided in completed reviews must be accurate, comprehensive, constructive, and concise; this is required so that the review is useful to those evaluating the targeted open textbook. (See “Completed Review: Approval and Payment” below.)
Each approved and completed review will be published by the reviewed textbook in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection<https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/> under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>. The copyright for each review is owned by the reviewer.
Resources
* Application form<http://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-reviewers/>, including a list of existing open textbooks eligible for review.
* B.C. Open Textbooks Review Rubric<https://open.bccampus.ca/files/2017/11/BC-Open-Textbooks-Review-Rubric.docx> (CC BY).
Review and Selection Process
* Faculty who would like to review a textbook should be teaching in the subject area for the selected text.
* Reviewers should be teaching at a post-secondary institution in either British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, or the Yukon.
* Reviewers are willing to consider the adoption of the reviewed open textbook, providing its quality and contents are appropriate for their course.
Please note that in order to encourage a diversity of voices in the reviews, BCcampus limits the number of reviews per person to one.
Application Process
Faculty interested in reviewing one of the BCcampus Open Education, should submit an application<http://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-reviewers/>. If you have any further questions, please email helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:opentext@bccampus.ca>.
Dear colleagues,
Earlier this year, we organized KPU's first interdisciplinary Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on Open Pedagogy<https://www.kpu.ca/open/pedagogy>. Meeting over the Spring semester, the group explored a variety of open educational practices that go far beyond open textbooks and critically examined ways in which students and faculty can use open resources, open licensing, and open tools to work together to design powerful and authentic learning experiences.
This Fall will mark the launch of our second FLC cohort. The group will read a single article and meet for a virtual discussion twice a month on Fridays from 9-10am (beginning on September 21). The schedule of meetings and topics is as follows:
September 21: From open educational resources to open pedagogy [Reading<http://openpedagogy.org/open-pedagogy/>]
October 5: Diversity, equity, and inclusion through open education [Reading<https://www.cccoer.org/2018/06/28/on-equity-diversity-inclusion-and-open-ed…>]
October 19: Privacy, digital redlining, and educational technology [Reading<https://www.commonsense.org/education/privacy/blog/digital-redlining-access…>]
November 2: A domain of one's own: Wordpress in the classroom [Reading<http://hackeducation.com/2017/04/04/domains>]
November 23: Information environmentalism: Wikipedia in the classroom [Reading<https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/10/info-environmentalism-an-introduct…>]
December 7: Open pedagogy showcase
If you have any questions about the FLC, please contact Rajiv Jhangiani at rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca>
To express your interest in joining this community please complete this webform: https://www.kpu.ca/open/flc
Thank you very much,
Rajiv
________________________
Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.
Special Advisor to the Provost on Open Education & Psychology Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University<http://www.kpu.ca/arts/psychology>
Associate Editor, Psychology Learning and Teaching<http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202353>
Ambassador, Center for Open Science<https://osf.io/>
