Hi everyone,
Just thought I'd share news of the recent release of our first open textbook at Dalhousie University. Hopefully this is the first of many more to come. Additional background information on the project can be found here https://www.dal.ca/news/2018/11/27/the-future-is-open.html
[cid:image003.jpg@01D4B193.203C7950]Environmental Science: a Canadian Perspective by renowned conservation biologist Bill Freedman (1950-2015) https://digitaleditions.library.dal.ca/environmentalscience/
Geoff Brown, MLIS
Librarian
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Digital Scholarship and Government Information
Dalhousie University Libraries
Halifax, NS, Canada
(902)494-2826
gsbrown(a)dal.ca
Hi everyone,
Sorry in advance if you've already seen this...but we're just trying to get the word out as much as possible!
I'm part of a research team doing an environmental scan of business open educational resources (OER). This scan is part of eCampusOntario's<https://www.ecampusontario.ca/> "Open at Scale" initiative.
This scan is meant to identify existing (and soon-to-be released) business OER that can be used in college and university-level business courses by post-secondary institutions based in Ontario, Canada.
The first step of this project involves reaching out to librarians, instructional designers, faculty, and other OER advocates to identify if there are any:
a) pre-existing environmental scans of business OER that can be updated by the research team;
b) core sources of business OER for the post-secondary level
We've created a survey and we'd love to receive some input from you. It should take approximately 5 to 15 minutes to complete: https://goo.gl/forms/55gmkso00lqHKmFK2
We would appreciate a quick turnaround on responses - ideally by Wednesday, February 27, 2019.
Final thing: Please help us get this survey into the hands as many people as possible by forwarding it to your colleagues and relevant listservs (please note, this survey has already been sent to the following listservs - SPARC OER, ABEL, BUS-Lib, Ontario’s LibOER).
Thanks,
Stephanie
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Stephanie Quail | Business Librarian
York University Libraries | 416-736-2100 x 22747 | quailste(a)yorku.ca<mailto:quailste@yorku.ca>
S237V, Seymour Schulich Building, York University, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
I’m curious is anyone in Canada is doing anything like option one in this post?
https://openoregon.org/how-to-pay-for-open/
I keep hearing from departments that they wouldn’t need to use homework systems from commercial publishers if they had more funding for TAs.
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 All,
I'm looking for inspiration for button designs to give out during Open Education Week. So far, I've found this nifty set from College of the Canyons<https://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/OER/Documents/OER%20Button…> but I wondered what else might be out there? Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Jessica
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Jessica Norman, MLS
eLearning Librarian, Reg Erhardt Library
Learner and Academic Services
Liaison to: Construction, Manufacturing & Automation
Specialist in: Distance Education, Open Educational Resources
Book an appointment<https://sait.libcal.com/appointment/16446>
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Stan Grad Centre, MC113
1301 - 16 Avenue NW, Calgary AB, T2M 0L4
(Office) 403.210.4073
jessica.norman(a)sait.ca<mailto:jessica.norman@sait.ca>
Preferred pronoun: She/Hers/Her
Hello all,
BCcampus is looking to implement a review process for books that we are interested in adding to the collection. Up until now, we have taken that on ourselves. But we often find ourselves looking for the opinion of subject-matter experts before we agree to add a book to the collection.
We are soliciting reviews on the following open textbooks on topics in philosophy and project management for engineers :
* [ http://builds.openlogicproject.org/courses/phil379/ | Sets, Logic, Computation ]
* [ http://forallx.openlogicproject.org/ | forall x: Calgary ]
* [ https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/technicalpm/ | Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order: A Practical Perspective ]
These reviews are meant to help guide our decision process. In a review, we will ask you the following:
* to rate a textbook in five different areas from "very poor" to "excellent"
* whether you recommend the textbook
* for what courses and levels the book is appropriate for.
There will also be an opportunity to provide additional comments. These reviews will not be posted publically, and we expect that they should not take longer than 30 minutes. An honorarium of $100 will be provided for each completed review. We will accept applications from instructors with subject-matter expertise who teach at any Canadian post-secondary institution.
Instructors who are interested in reviewing one of these textbooks can email [ mailto:booksreviews@bccampus.ca | booksreviews(a)bccampus.ca ] from their institutional email address. Provide the book you are interested in reviewing, the institution you teach at, and list the courses that you teach that align with the selected textbook. We are only looking for one review per textbook, so reviewers will be accepted on a first-come basis provided they meet the requirements.
If none of these textbooks are in your subject area but you'd be willing to review future textbooks, please email [ mailto:bookreviews@bccampus.ca | bookreviews(a)bccampus.ca ] with the subject areas that you have expertise in and I'll make a note to contact you if we have future books in need of review in that subject area.
Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Best,
Josie
Josie Gray, BA (Hons.)
Coordinator of Collection Quality, Open Education
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Hi Everyone,
I'm thinking about doing a webinar during Open Education Week where I draw
out examples of "open leadership" from all the great work on OER happening
across Canada or Alberta (depending on who responds!). It will be during
Open Education Week, March 4 - 8. Date and time TBD.
1. Do this
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b3Aa4rzV5TA1fEDtg6eEQEssFmt2v7Gcg_fVXRe…>
self
assessment
2. Be ready to share some personal reflection about your results
3. Be ready to answer a few questions (I'll share them to you in advance)
4. Be ready to share a little bit about your project
I'm going to base it off of Mozilla's open leadership framework (here
<https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/>). The project
you share about could be your work creating, adapting, promoting, using,
supporting, or anything else about Open Education or Open Educational
Resources. If it's about OE, I will probably ask you a few additional
questions to differentiate between OE and OER. :-)
Note: I will submit this to be recorded and shared by the CC Education
Platform Network. My goal is for each person to be on video, if possible.
ALSO - if you're interested but can't commit to a live webinar, let me know
anyway. Maybe I'll do a non-live podcast to release later!
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Krysta McNutt, PMP
Open Education Program Lead (Centre for Teaching and Learning)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
krystam(a)ualberta.ca | 780-710-5674 | @mcnuttsays
<http://www.twitter.com/mcnuttsays>
*The University of Alberta is located **o**n Treaty 6 territory, the
territory of the Papaschase, and the homeland of the **Métis Nation.*
Dear All,
Is anyone interested in giving an overview with me on the state of OE in Canada?
See information below:
*Open Education Web-a-thon 2019: Sign Up!*
Greetings Open Education Friends:Open Education Week (https://www.openeducationweek.org) is coming up March 4-8, 2019.
Each year, the Creative Commons community participates in Open Education Week, hosting webinars, giving local talks and sharing CC licensed educational resources.Last year, the CC Open Edu community hosted a 24-hour, around-the world, in multiple languages, series of webinars to share the good work you’re all doing. This year, the CC Open Education Platform and CC Poland are organizing and hosting a CC community 24-hour webinar sprint on March 5-6 (depending on your time zone).We encourage you to keep it simple and participate!
Each slot will run for 25 minutes, during which you can: Present the state of open education in your country.
Share experiences from your activism or a project that you run
- Try a talk that you’ve been working on
- Or give a virtual version of a talk you presented at an event in 2018
- We are also happy to host longer discussions between several speakers.
We are also looking for people or organizations that will help coordinate the Web-a-thon in their community or region. This includes finding speakers, promoting the event, and moderating sessions. We are happy to include you as a co-organizer of the event!
All sessions will be in CC’s Uberconference room - a low-bandwidth meeting space accessible by web, mobile or phone #.
All presenters will be given login credentials so they can record their session audio and chat.
Sign up by entering your information on this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SKfXvGWLfxFFnHjvWI2IEDYqOme-4gCLCgv… select an open time slot. We have one room, so we will will not be running parallel sessions. (If there is a timing conflict, please contact us, and we will try to sort it out)
*Deadline for Submissions: February 19*After we receive your submissions, we will share all of the session information with our friends at the Open Education Consortium who organize open education week.Thank you for joining us in celebrating global open education!Gratefully, Cable, Karolina and Alek
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Amanda Coolidge, MEd
Senior Manager of Open Education
BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate.
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Hi All,
I'm hoping that someone has a lead on OER content for an introductory survey course in science (SCIE 2240: Science Past, Present, and Future). The outcomes are broad and include:
* Describe the steps in the scientific method
* Describe a series of experiments from the history of science that illustrate the elements of scientific method.
* Define accuracy, precision, systematic error, and random error as they apply to measurements.
* Employ appropriate units for physical measurements.
* Define a hypothesis test and identify its components.
* Make a conclusion from a formal hypothesis test based on sample data.
* Create a written group report on a modern scientific result and the consequences to the prevailing scientific theory or model.
* Discuss current trends in science.
(This is not an exhaustive list)
I have checked OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, OER Commons, BCcampus, Cool4Ed.org, OASIS, and Mason OER Metafinder. I have found a chapter here or there which might be re-written to fit these outcomes. However, I would love to find 2-3 books (possible topics: history of science, scientific method and research techniques, and current/future trends in science) that would cover these topics more comprehensively.
I certainly do not expect to find all of this in one place. Any leads would be appreciated!
Cheers,
Jessica
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Jessica Norman, MLS
eLearning Librarian, Reg Erhardt Library
Learner and Academic Services
Liaison to: Construction, Manufacturing & Automation
Specialist in: Distance Education, Open Educational Resources
Book an appointment<https://sait.libcal.com/appointment/16446>
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Stan Grad Centre, MC113
1301 - 16 Avenue NW, Calgary AB, T2M 0L4
(Office) 403.210.4073
jessica.norman(a)sait.ca<mailto:jessica.norman@sait.ca>
Preferred pronoun: She/Hers/Her
