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Opportunity to contribute a chapter to a new OER book: Call for Proposals

by Lauri Aesoph

Hello Everyone, Please see below for an opportunity to contribute to a new book with the purpose of presenting current research on OER in education with focus on pedagogical discussion and practices in teaching and learning in higher education and in K-12 schools. The content topic coverage of book includes OER inclusive teaching and learning pedagogical clinical practices in higher education and K-12 OER teaching and learning practices. Regards, The BCcampus Open Education team Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education BC campus | learning.doing.leading . [ callto:250-893-0258 | 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/zimbra/bccampus.ca | BCcampus.ca ] | @BCcampus | #BCcampus ___________________________________________________________________________________ Call for Chapters: Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices Editor Molly Y. Zhou Call for Chapters Proposals Submission Deadline: January 10, 2019 Full Chapters Due: May 10, 2019 Submission Date: May 10, 2019 Introduction OER is a recent educational structural organization shift on access to learning materials. It is a new movement in education. Although it started within higher education, the impact of this movement has started to impact K-12 schools. This movement is not only in the US, but across continents and countries in the world. As education becomes more individualized with educational technologies, OER adds to the efforts in leveraging educational resources, educational cost, educational equity, and poverty for a world class of education as contextualized in a world of uncertainties. Objective The purpose of the book is to present current research on OER in education with focus on pedagogical discussion and practices in teaching and learning in higher education and in K-12 schools. The content topic coverage of book includes OER inclusive teaching and learning pedagogical clinical practices in higher education and K-12 OER teaching and learning practices. Target Audience OER organizations, investors, educational agencies, educational policy makers, educational leaders, educators, teachers, philanthropists, and other individuals interested in OER in teaching and learning. Recommended Topics Chapters with research topics and content that address research-based OER teaching and learning pedagogical clinical practices are welcome for submission. Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January 10, 2019 , a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by January 17, 2019 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 10, 2019 , and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at [ https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.igi-glo… | http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ ] prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery®TM online submission manager at [ https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.igi-gl… | https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/3598 ] Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit [ https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.igi-glo… | www.igi-global.com ] . This publication is anticipated to be released in 2020. Important Dates Chapter Proposal due date: 1/10/2019 Full chapter due date: 5/10/2019 Final Deadline due date: 9/30/2019 Inquiries Molly Zhou School of Education Dalton State College [ mailto:mzhou@daltonstate.edu | mzhou(a)daltonstate.edu ] USA DALTON STATE COLLEGE EMPLOYEE EMAIL This email message is being sent from a Dalton State College email account. The owner of this account has no authority to validate, terminate, or verify account information. If this email requests you take any action requiring you to provide your user credentials (such as clicking an embedded link), the account has been compromised and should be reported to abuse(a)daltonstate.edu. IMPORTANT/CONFIDENTIAL: This message contains information from Dalton State College, which may be privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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Cascadia Open Education Summit 2019 - now accepting proposals

by Lauri Aesoph

Hello Everyone, [ https://bccampus.ca/event/cascadia-open-education-summit/ | Information about ] and the [ https://bccampus.ca/event/2019-cascadia-open-ed-summit-call-for-proposals/ | call for proposals ] for the Cascadia Open Education Summit 2019 are now available. BCcampus, the Washington State Board of Colleges and Technical Colleges, Open Oregon Educational Resources and Lumen Learning welcome proposals for the Cascadia Open Education Summit April 17-18, 2019 at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). The Cascadia Open Education Summit attracts a wide range of higher education participants including faculty, students, open educators, project staff, librarians, as well as government policymakers and institutional leaders. Please share this information widely: [ https://bccampus.ca/event/cascadia-open-education-summit/ | https://t.co/Havh7nxR30 ] and #CascadiaOpenEd Regards, The BCcampus Open Ed 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 ]

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Fwd: [lpc-l] OCLC survey on libraries' investments in open content

by Lauri Aesoph

Hi Librarians, Please see survey below. Each respondent is identified by country. Regards, Lauri 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 ] From: "arwalz" <arwalz(a)vt.edu> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 11:37:29 AM Subject: Fwd: [lpc-l] OCLC survey on libraries' investments in open content Dear open colleagues in libraries, Of possible interest: Colleagues at OCLC Research, as part of their [ http://www.oclc.org/blog/main/an-open-discussion/ | work on open content ] , have a [ http://www.marketingbackupsurveys.com/OCLC/2018OCLCOA.htm | survey open on library investment in open content ] - creating it, making it discoverable, and preserving it. The survey was sponsored by the OCLC global council, and it's meant to gather data from a wide range of international libraries. It's a fairly simple survey instrument, but if it gets enough uptake, it might yield some interesting data about library publishing (among other things). It's open until mid-January. Check it out if you have a few minutes: * [ http://www.marketingbackupsurveys.com/OCLC/2018OCLCOA.htm | OCLC Access to Open Content Survey ] Anita R. Walz Assistant Professor Open Education, Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian Library Liaison to Economics, Mathematics, and Legal Studies [ mailto:arwalz@vt.edu | arwalz(a)vt.edu ] | Tel: [ tel:540-231-2204 | 540-231-2204 ] | Fax: [ tel:540-231-7808 | 540-231-7808 ] | Newman Library 422 | Twitter: @arwalz Open Educational Resources Guide [ http://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer | http://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer ] Virginia Tech University Libraries (0434) 560 Drillfield Drive Blacksburg, VA 24061 [ http://www.lib.vt.edu/ | http://www.lib.vt.edu ] -- If you have any questions, contact lizyata(a)oeconsortium.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCCOER Advisory" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [ mailto:cccoer-advisory+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com | cccoer-advisory+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com ] . To post to this group, send email to [ mailto:cccoer-advisory@googlegroups.com | cccoer-advisory(a)googlegroups.com ] . For more options, visit [ https://groups.google.com/d/optout | https://groups.google.com/d/optout ] .

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Fwd: [lpc-l] OCLC survey on libraries' investments in open content

by Mary Burgess

Hi All, Something that may be of interest below... Mary Mary Burgess (pronouns she/her) Executive Director Acknowledging with respect that the land on which I work and live is the traditional, unceded territory of the Lkwungen-speaking people and the Songees, Esquimalt and W SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. BC campus | Learning.Doing.Leading 120-645 Fort Street | Victoria BC V8W1G2 T 250-516-8378 [ file://localhost/callto/604.412.7734 ] | www.bccampus.ca Twitter @maryeburgess Skype mburgessbccampus Sign up for BCcampus news: [ http://bccampus.ca/bccampus-around-the-web/ | http://bccampus.ca/bccampus-around-the-web/ ] My schedule is Monday through Thursday. From: "Anita Walz" <arwalz(a)vt.edu> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 11:37:29 AM Subject: Fwd: [lpc-l] OCLC survey on libraries' investments in open content Dear open colleagues in libraries, Of possible interest: Colleagues at OCLC Research, as part of their [ http://www.oclc.org/blog/main/an-open-discussion/ | work on open content ] , have a [ http://www.marketingbackupsurveys.com/OCLC/2018OCLCOA.htm | survey open on library investment in open content ] - creating it, making it discoverable, and preserving it. The survey was sponsored by the OCLC global council, and it's meant to gather data from a wide range of international libraries. It's a fairly simple survey instrument, but if it gets enough uptake, it might yield some interesting data about library publishing (among other things). It's open until mid-January. Check it out if you have a few minutes: * [ http://www.marketingbackupsurveys.com/OCLC/2018OCLCOA.htm | OCLC Access to Open Content Survey ] Anita R. Walz Assistant Professor Open Education, Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian Library Liaison to Economics, Mathematics, and Legal Studies [ mailto:arwalz@vt.edu | arwalz(a)vt.edu ] | Tel: [ tel:540-231-2204 | 540-231-2204 ] | Fax: [ tel:540-231-7808 | 540-231-7808 ] | Newman Library 422 | Twitter: @arwalz Open Educational Resources Guide [ http://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer | http://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer ] Virginia Tech University Libraries (0434) 560 Drillfield Drive Blacksburg, VA 24061 [ http://www.lib.vt.edu/ | http://www.lib.vt.edu ] -- If you have any questions, contact lizyata(a)oeconsortium.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCCOER Advisory" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [ mailto:cccoer-advisory+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com | cccoer-advisory+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com ] . To post to this group, send email to [ mailto:cccoer-advisory@googlegroups.com | cccoer-advisory(a)googlegroups.com ] . For more options, visit [ https://groups.google.com/d/optout | https://groups.google.com/d/optout ] .

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Dr. Robin DeRosa talk on "The Future of the Public Mission of Universities" (Nov. 22, 5:30-7:00, SFU Burnaby)

by Hope Power

Hi all, Just forwarding details about this upcoming talk that may be of interest with Dr. Robin DeRosa on The Future of the Public Mission of Universities<https://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-…>, scheduled as the final session in this fall's President's Dream Colloquium on Making Knowledge Public at Simon Fraser University (SFU)<https://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-…>. The Future of Public Mission of Universities Robin DeRosa, Professor and Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Thursday, November 22, 5:30 to 7 PM, reception to follow ASB 10900, Presentation Studio, SFU Burnaby Campus LIVE STREAM of this event will also be available starting at 5:30pm More details and the registration link available here<https://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-…>. Robin DeRosa is a professor and an internationally-known advocate for Open Education. Her research and activism focus on increasing public access to knowledge, critically rethinking the profit motive in education, and piloting new architectures for programs and institutions that empower and center learners in their design. Robin is Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Plymouth State University, part of the University System of New Hampshire. She is also an editor for Hybrid Pedagogy, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses for technology and new media in education, and she has taught courses for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and Digital Pedagogy Lab. A leader in the movement to develop a social justice orientation for pedagogies and practices related to Open Educational Resources (OER) and Connected Learning, Robin’s work interrogates and inspires, and offers possibilities for a commons-oriented approach to educational innovation. Hope to see some of you there! Cheers, Hope -- Hope Power Teaching & Learning Librarian W.A.C. Bennett Library (Burnaby) Simon Fraser University hpower(a)sfu.ca / 778.782.4359

6 years, 5 months

BCampus Open Education: new books and updates (May 4, 2018)

by Lauri Aesoph

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 ]

6 years, 5 months

BCcampus OpenEd: survey regarding Pressbooks files for OpenStax textbooks

by Lauri Aesoph

Dear Faculty and Staff, In consultation with OpenStax, BCcampus Open Education is 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. Currently, [ https://openstax.org/subjects | OpenStax ] hosts its open textbooks in a platform called CNX. Pressbooks is a widely used authoring and adaptation system. (See the [ https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/ | Pressbooks Guide ] for more information.) If you are interested in participating, please fill out this anonymous survey form: [ https://open.bccampus.ca/openstax-pressbooks-survey/ | https://open.bccampus.ca/openstax-pressbooks-survey/ ] This survey will close on November 30, 2018. Feel free to share this survey with your B.C. post-secondary colleagues. Regards, 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/zimbra/bccampus.ca | BCcampus.ca ] | @BCcampus | #BCcampus Sign up for [ https://bccampus.ca/bccampus-around-the-web/ | BCcampus news ]

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