On behalf of Naza and the whole DES Team, just wanted to say thanks to the
Canada OER community for your amazing inspiration and sharing of ideas
throughout the year. May the holiday season bring you peace, hope and joy.
Hi Everyone,
I just sent a message on to a contact I have in the Provost Office at
Athabasca University to see if Dr. Matthew L. Prineas (Provost and
Vice-president, Academic) might be available/interested in sharing his
experience from University of Maryland with the Canada OER group. At a
minimum, I'll pursue that he connect with you, Naza. :)
--
Krysta McNutt, PMP
Open Education Project Manager
Centre for Teaching and Learning
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
krystam(a)ualberta.ca | 780-710-5674 | @mcnuttsays
<http://www.twitter.com/mcnuttsays>
Join the UA Open Education Interest Group, here
<http://www.mailman.srv.ualberta.ca/mailman/listinfo/openeducation>. Learn
more about Open Education at the UofA, here
<https://www.ualberta.ca/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/teaching-developme…>
.
*The University of Alberta is located **o**n Treaty 6 territory, the
territory of the Papaschase, and the homeland of the *
*Métis Nation.*
Hi Everyone,
As promised, attached is a spreadsheet listing the Canadian authors/reviewers who have contributed to OpenStax books.
Regards,
Lauri
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovat e .
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Hello everyone,
At BCcampus, we recently launched two COEPs (Communities of Open Education Practitioners), for Physics and Psychology. The idea behind creating these groups is to facilitate collaboration and sharing among like-minded disciplinary colleagues across different institutions, both within and beyond BC. This might, for example, involve proposing and peer reviewing revisions to within specific open textbooks, sharing ancillary teaching resources, or even helping identify the need for/collaboratively developing additional open educational resources.
These groups are designed to be informal and, importantly, the level of involvement is entirely up to the individual. So, for example, an instructor may choose to draw on shared resources for their own teaching and assist colleagues by reviewing a newly-discovered open textbook. Or they may choose to propose the development of a question bank to support an open textbook, recruit collaborators, and apply to BCcampus for funding to support their project.
In each case, we have created a Google Group to facilitate communication (this functions like a private listserv) and a private Hypothes.is group to facilitate sharing of annotations within specific open textbooks (click here if you are unfamiliar with social annotations).
Anyone interested in joining a COEP should send an email to opentext(a)bccampus.ca. They will then be added to the Google Group and receive the link to join the private Hypothes.is group. Please feel free to share this email with interested colleagues.
Thank you very much for your support of open education.
On behalf of the BCcampus Open Education team,
Rajiv Jhangiani
Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.
Advisor, Open Education
BCcampus | connect.collaborate.innovate.
200-555 Seymour Street | Vancouver BC V6B 3H6
Email: rajiv(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca
Twitter: @thatpsychprof