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* The BCcampus Open Education Authoring Guide has been archived.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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Good Friday afternoon everyone. I have a nursing instructor who is looking to replace a commercial textbook currently used for a course in Gerontology. Her colleagues are using Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging by Touhy, Jett, Boscart, and McCleary, while students have found Gerontological Nursing Competencies For Care (4th Edition) by Mauk more useful. She would prefer that her students not have to buy a textbook. Does anyone know of any good existing OER that might replace the textbook?
If not, she had expressed interest that such a book should be created (big dreams).
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
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We have an instructor from our English Department who is considering using Cove. Does anyone have any experience with it? She’s looking into it, but my browsers don’t want to load it because of a lack of a “secure connection”. From what she’s told me students need to each pay $10 to collaborate on what would be an open access publication. I’m trying to steer her toward using a wiki or Pressbooks or such tools, but need some background / feedback on Cove to best make my case.
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:
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Good morning everyone.
I am pleased to announce that we have released an adaptation of the University Physics book from OpenStax. The new book is called Introduction to Electricity, Magnetism, and Circuits and is available here:
https://openpress.usask.ca/physics155/
This book is now being used for two of our first year Physics courses, including the one that all first year students in our College of Engineering currently take.
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:
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Excuse the cross postings:
Join us for the Cascadia Open Education Summit, formerly known as the BC Open Textbook Summit, in beautiful Vancouver, B.C. on April 17 & 18, 2019 at SFU Harbour Centre. This event is co-hosted with our regional friends; Lumen Learning, Open Oregon Educational Resources, and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
This event is for new and experienced OER advocates offering the opportunity to learn and share effective practices in awareness building, implementation, collaboration, strategy, and research.
Theme: Scaling New Heights with Open Education.
Example topics include:
* What are the current challenges and opportunities for open education? Do you have creative solutions for how to take them on?
* How is the ecosystem around OER evolving, and what are the implications for this evolution?
* As OER enters mainstream curriculum, what are the implications for institutions? Faculty? Libraries? Students? Other stakeholders?
Event details:
* Day 1 will include 2 keynotes and conference proceedings with presentations, panel presentations, and table talks.
* Day 2 is our Day of Action Focused OER Workshops. A series of workshops will be presented (2 hours each) and is intended for people looking for support in achieving the next step in their OER work or initiative.
Keynotes:
Heather M. Ross, Educational Development Specialist, University of Saskatchewan and Karen Cangialosi, Professor of Biology, Keene State College Who should attend:
People engaged in higher education focused open education initiatives, including students, faculty, librarians, instructional technologists, administrators, and other campus leaders.
Further details will emerge as the program committee meets – stay informed about the call for proposals via #casacadiaopened and through [ https://bccampus.ca/ | our website. ]
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Hi All,
Do folks working with OER textbooks have any suggestions for a Canadian print-on-demand publisher to use for print copies of these textbooks? I have print copies of BCcampus texts but I'd like additional texts to use as demo copies for OER presentations. (I'm also checking with our campus print shop but I'd like to know of other options.)
Cheers,
Jessica Norman
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Library Liaison: Construction, Manufacturing & Automation
Learner and Academic Services
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The following meeting has been modified:
Subject: Canada OER: National OE Strategy Conversation
Organizer: "Amanda Coolidge" <acoolidge(a)bccampus.ca>
Location: https://ecampusontario.zoom.us/j/295964924 [MODIFIED]
Time: Monday, October 1, 2018, 10:30:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Invitees: canadaoer(a)mail.bccampus.ca; lrigling(a)ecampusontario.ca; davidp(a)ecampusontario.ca; opentxt(a)gw.uregina.ca; josie.gray(a)bccampus.ca; GrenierMintenkoK(a)CampusManitoba.CA; klambert(a)bccampus.ca; lpatterson(a)ecampusontario.ca
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The following is a new meeting request:
Subject: Canada OER: National OE Strategy Conversation
Organizer: "Amanda Coolidge" <acoolidge(a)bccampus.ca>
Time: Monday, October 1, 2018, 10:30:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Invitees: canadaoer(a)mail.bccampus.ca
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Hi All
This time seems to work best.
Lena, can you please let me know the zoom link and I will add to the invite?
Thanks!
Amanda
The following is a new meeting request:
Subject: Canada OER: National OE Strategy Conversation
Organizer: "Amanda Coolidge" <acoolidge(a)bccampus.ca>
Time: Monday, October 1, 2018, 10:30:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Invitees: canadaoer(a)mail.bccampus.ca
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Hi All
This time seems to work best.
Lena, can you please let me know the zoom link and I will add to the invite?
Thanks!
Amanda
Hi Amanda,
No doodle poll as yet and no meeting date! It's been a busy start to the year in Ontario. Happy to have the scheduling responsibility rotate - eCampusOntario is happy to provide the Zoom platform as always.
Best,
Lena
On 2018-09-21, 2:07 PM, "Canadaoer on behalf of Lise Brin" <canadaoer-bounces(a)mail.bccampus.ca on behalf of lise.brin(a)carl-abrc.ca> wrote:
I agree - I would be interested in such a discussion as well!
Lise
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On 2018-09-21, 2:05 PM, "Canadaoer on behalf of Open Textbooks" <canadaoer-bounces(a)mail.bccampus.ca on behalf of Open.Textbooks(a)uregina.ca> wrote:
I would be interested in participating in this meeting too. A national
voice is needed! Is there any federal funding available for open
resource development specifically? I'm not aware, but that would be a
good starting point in terms of who to contact.
Elsa
>>> "Ross, Heather" <heather.ross(a)usask.ca> 09/21/18 10:58 AM >>>
Amanda,
This sounds like a great idea. I don’t believe we have a date set for
our next meeting.
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
On Sep 21, 2018, 10:26 AM -0600, Amanda Coolidge
<acoolidge(a)bccampus.ca>, wrote:
Hi Canada OER
I am sorry I have been off the radar with this group lately, however I
would like to propose that we have a conversation about what a National
OER advocacy plan would look like. How do we create a shared message
that can be used across the country? Who do we need to speak to on a
political level?
I don't believe we have a date set for our next meeting, however I could
be wrong. If we do I would love to add this to the agenda. If we don't
have a meeting set, please let me know and I will send out a doodle
poll.
Thanks and Happy Friday
Amanda
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Senior Manager of Open Education
BCcampus | connect.collaborate.innovate.
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