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* The BCcampus Open Education Authoring Guide has been archived.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.
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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.
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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.
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The BCcampus Open Education team
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Absolutely awesome! I have shared it with my Business faculty ☺
From: Canadaoer <canadaoer-bounces(a)mail.bccampus.ca> on behalf of Lena Patterson <lpatterson(a)ecampusontario.ca>
Date: Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 2:00 PM
To: "canadaoer(a)mail.bccampus.ca" <canadaoer(a)mail.bccampus.ca>
Cc: Peggy French <pfrench(a)ecampusontario.ca>
Subject: [Canadaoer] Two new business open texts to share!
Hi Canada OER!
Six college business professors and our Program Manager team here at eCampusOntario just completed an adaptation of two open textbooks to support introductory business courses.
Communication for Business Professionals and Fundamentals of Business were updated to reflect the Canadian context and align to Ontario's Program Standards and Learning Outcomes for Business.
Communication for Business Professionals<https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/commbusprofcdn/>
Fundamentals of Business<https://rc-openlibrary-pb.ecampusontario.ca/businessfuncdn/>
I’ve attached a doc here which highlights the major enhancements.
Congrats to all involved and big shout out to Jenni Hayman, Peggy French, Terry Greene and Joanne Kehoe who supported our faculty and made these adaptations happen!
Lena
// Lena Patterson
Senior Director, Programs and Stakeholder Relations
eCampusOntario
416.275.0190
[Image removed by sender. eCampusOntario]
211 Yonge St. 2nd Floor
Toronto, ON, M5B 1M4
ecampusontario.ca<http://ecampusontario.ca>
I just had a meeting with the VP Academic of our undergraduate student association and he’s looking for a resources for individual students to guide them in approaching their instructors about considering OER. Does anyone have something like talking points for individual students?
Thank you.
Heather M. Ross (B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed.)
Educational Developer (Digital Pedagogies)
Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning
Research Fellow
Open Education Group
Room 50.5, Murray Building
University of Saskatchewan
Tel: 306.966.5327
email: heather.ross(a)usask.ca<mailto:heather.ross@usask.ca>
http://teaching.usask.ca/index.php
Find open textbooks and other open educational resources on:
http://open.usask.ca
Hi Canada OER!
Six college business professors and our Program Manager team here at eCampusOntario just completed an adaptation of two open textbooks to support introductory business courses.
Communication for Business Professionals and Fundamentals of Business were updated to reflect the Canadian context and align to Ontario's Program Standards and Learning Outcomes for Business.
Communication for Business Professionals<https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/commbusprofcdn/>
Fundamentals of Business<https://rc-openlibrary-pb.ecampusontario.ca/businessfuncdn/>
I’ve attached a doc here which highlights the major enhancements.
Congrats to all involved and big shout out to Jenni Hayman, Peggy French, Terry Greene and Joanne Kehoe who supported our faculty and made these adaptations happen!
Lena
// Lena Patterson
Senior Director, Programs and Stakeholder Relations
eCampusOntario
416.275.0190
[eCampusOntario]
211 Yonge St. 2nd Floor
Toronto, ON, M5B 1M4
ecampusontario.ca<http://ecampusontario.ca>
Hello everyone,
Before I sign off for some vacation time I wanted to share two recent developments at KPU which I hope will serve as a model for other institutions:
1. We now have a searchable field in the course timetable for Zed Cred sections. To see how this works watch this video: https://media.kpu.ca/media/Search+the+course+timetable+for+zero+textbook+co…
2. Our Senate has now approved a policy that integrates a) a search for relevant OER and b) flagging as a potential Zed Cred course in the course development & revision process. Although this seems rather technical, in practice it means that within 5 years (the course review cycle at KPU) all courses will have undergone a search for OER.
I am sharing these developments with this group because I am happy to provide guidance for anyone else seeking to achieve either of these two things.
Cheers,
Rajiv
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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/>
Hi Everyone,
Our students' union is developing a letter to share affordable resource
options to instructors (OER being one of these). Do any of you have sample
letters from their institutions that we could look to? Or
experiences/lessons learned to share?
Thank you!
--
Krysta
Hi there,
Lena Patterson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Canada OER Reunion
Time: Jul 17, 2018 3:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://ecampusontario.zoom.us/j/359685156
Or iPhone one-tap :
Canada: +16475580588,,359685156#
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
Canada: +1 647 558 0588
US: +1 646 558 8656 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 855 880 1246 (Toll Free) or +1 877 853 5257 (Toll Free)
Meeting ID: 359 685 156
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/gwXXGTy2
I received an email the Saskatoon Public School Division that they have released their first open textbook for Computer Science 20. It’s in the form of a website and carries a CC-BY-SA license.
http://opensask.ca/
Heather M. Ross (B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed.)
Educational Developer (Digital Pedagogies)
Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning
Research Fellow
Open Education Group
Room 50.5, Murray Building
University of Saskatchewan
Tel: 306.966.5327
email: heather.ross(a)usask.ca
http://teaching.usask.ca/index.php
Find open textbooks and other open educational resources on:
http://open.usask.ca
