Canadaoer October 2020

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Looking for Health test bank: calculations and/or logic

by Jessica Norman

Hi All, I have an instructor developing an exam for our school's EMT program. He is asking if there are any open licensed test banks for 1) classic "logic puzzle" questions (so not necessary health-related) 2) dosage/ unit conversion/ fraction & decimal questions using health scenarios (EMT, ultrasound, nursing fields, etc.) I've checked my usual locations (eCampus Ontario, BCcampus, OpenOregon, Merlot, OERCommons) with little success, so any leads would be greatly appreciated! [1515697169940_PastedImage] Jessica Norman, MLS Open Educational Resources Librarian Reg Erhardt Library Liaison to: Construction, Manufacturing & Automation SAFA Table of Officers, Division IV Book an appointment<https://sait.libcal.com/appointment/16446> (Office) 403.210.4073 jessica.norman(a)sait.ca<mailto:jessica.norman@sait.ca> She/Hers/Her

4 years, 5 months

UBC Library - Open Scholarship in Practice Event

by Fields, Erin

[Open Scholarship in Practice]<https://open.ubc.ca/osip2020/> Open Scholarship in Practice 2020 Join us November 2–6 for a week of free webinars and workshops exploring the practice of open scholarship — from new tools that can increase the reproducibility of research, to new pedagogies that become possible when students and faculty members become co-creators engaged in meaningful, generative knowledge creation. Hear from UBC colleagues who are incorporating “openness” in innovative ways to enhance teaching, research, and public impact. Explore the full event calendar <https://open.ubc.ca/osip2020/> here<https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/calendar?cid=7544&t=g&d=0000-00-00&cal=7544&c…>, or browse the sessions below. Here is a highlight of a few of the sessions! Working in Public: Generosity and the Knowledge Commons Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Location: A Zoom video conferencing link will be provided prior to the event to all who are confirmed to participate. Featured Keynote: Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English Michigan State University Working in public, and with the public, can enable scholars to build vital, sustainable research communities, both within their fields, with other scholars in different fields, and with folks off-campus who care about the kinds of work that we do. By finding ways to connect with a broad range of publics, in a range of different registers, and in ways that allow for meaningful response, we can create the possibilities for far more substantial public participation in and engagement with the humanities, and with the academy more broadly. This talk explores the ideas in Professor Fitzpatrick’s influential book, Generous Thinking, and will focus on the challenges posed by working in public and the skills required to develop more publicly engaged scholarship. Co-sponsored by the UBC Library and the UBC Public Humanities Hub. Register Here<https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3585287> Emerging Perspectives in Open Access Book Publishing Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am Location: A Zoom video conferencing link will be provided prior to the event to all who are confirmed to participate. Open Access monograph publishing is a rapidly expanding and evolving strategy for making scholarly work globally accessible. Universities, academic publishers, libraries, and scholarly organizations are developing new initiatives, partnerships, services, and business models to support open access options for authors of scholarly monographs, textbooks, and academic books. This event will explore the opportunities, challenges, and experiences of OA book publishing from the perspective of authors, series editors and publishers. You are invited to join a panel discussion of UBC faculty and publishers that will address their motivations for “going open”, as well as the processes, impacts, and changes that OA is bringing to academic book publishing. Panellists * Katherine Bowers, Katherine Bowers, Associate Professor of Slavic Studies, UBC Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies * Megan Brand, Production Editor, UBC Press * Rupert Gatti, Co-founder and Director of Open Book Publishers; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Director of Studies in Economics * Mark Turin, Associate Professor, UBC Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies & Department of Anthropology Register Here<https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3584443> Publishing As Open Pedagogy: OJS & Pressbooks Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: A Zoom video conferencing link will be provided prior to the event to all who are confirmed to participate. As open education continues to gain traction in higher education, many are looking for ways to expand their integration of open approaches beyond merely the inclusion of open materials. Open publishing is beginning to emerge as one pathway towards greater engagement in openness in the classroom. This panel will introduce participants to five people working in various capacities to support student publishing through Open Journal Systems and PressBooks, two open source publishing platforms that allow for open dissemination of student-created, instructor-supported content. Register Here<https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3585292> <https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3585292> <https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3585292> <https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3580860> Erin M.E. Fields BA, BEd, MLIS (She, Her, Hers<https://equity.ubc.ca/resources/gender-diversity/pronouns/>) Open Education and Scholarly Communications Librarian UBC Library | Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office The University of British Columbia | Walter C. Koerner Library | Musqueam Traditional Territory 1958 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada Phone 604 822 0977 erin.fields(a)ubc.ca<mailto:erin.fields@ubc.ca> | Emefie<http://twitter.com/Emefie> https://www.library.ubc.ca/ | https://scholcomm.ubc.ca/ [UBC E-mail Signature]

4 years, 6 months

New: OER in Development by Discipline

by Arianna Cheveldave

This message is sent on behalf of Lauri Aesoph. Dear colleagues, At a recent CanadaOER meeting, and during other discussions, many have expressed the need for a list of in-progress OER projects that can be checked before committing to the creation or revision of an open educational resource. That need has now fulfilled with the new OER in Development by Discipline<https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/back-matter/appendix-b/> page in the OER by Discipline Directory<https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/>. This list as well as links to in-progress projects, posted on each subject page through this directory, will be updated regularly. If you have a project that you'd like added to this list or an update or correction about a current listing, please email laesoph(a)bccampus.ca. Regards, Lauri Aesoph Manager Open Education Operations Arianna Cheveldave Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus Email: acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave@bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn: ariannacheveldave<https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arianna-cheveldave> • Pronouns: She/her ________________________________ I acknowledge that the land I live, work, and play on is the unceded territory of the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), W̱SÁNEĆ, and Songhees Nation of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) peoples. I thank them for their hospitality.

4 years, 6 months

BCcampus Trades and Vocational Education Summit Series

by Arianna Cheveldave

Dear colleagues, On the first four Mondays in November, BCcampus is hosting the Trades and Vocational Education Summit Series<https://bccampus.ca/event/trades-and-vocational-education-summit-series/?in…>. The event description is as follows: This summit series is designed to provide vocational education faculty opportunities to explore different avenues for their course design and delivery. Session topics will include the following: * Design Thinking for TVET * Backwards Design Your Next Course * Authentic Assessments for TVET * Synchronous and Asynchronous Teaching in TVET. Each week will have a different keynote speaker followed by an interactive workshop session. Tim Carson, Sally Vinden, Nicki Rehn, and Lucy Griffiths will lead the sessions. On November 23, there will be a social from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM PT. The summit events are from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. PST on November 2, November 9, November 16, and November 23. There is no cost to attend. Please share widely within your networks. Best, Arianna Cheveldave Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus Email: acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave@bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn: ariannacheveldave<https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arianna-cheveldave> • Pronouns: She/her ________________________________ I acknowledge that the land I live, work, and play on is the unceded territory of the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), W̱SÁNEĆ, and Songhees Nation of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) peoples. I thank them for their hospitality.

4 years, 6 months

U of A Opening Up Copyright (OUC) Community Fall Update

by Samantha Sheplawy

The University of Alberta’s *Opening Up Copyright (OUC)* instructional modules team is pleased to share another update on the series. With news that the Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to appeal in the Access Copyright / York University case, these four new modules are a timely way to learn more about post-secondary copyright issues: - *Access Copyright v. York* <https://sites.library.ualberta.ca/copyright/modules/access-copyright-v-york/> - Collective Licensing Institutions and the Copyright Board <https://sites.library.ualberta.ca/copyright/modules/collective-licensing-ag…> - Educational Institutions' Policies and Practices <https://sites.library.ualberta.ca/copyright/educational-institutions-polici…> - Sections 29.4 - 30.03: Educational Institution Exceptions <https://sites.library.ualberta.ca/copyright/educational-institution-excepti…> Special thanks to the University of Alberta's OER Awards program for funding these modules, and to long-time OUC contributor Julia Guy, who finished up her work on the project last month. Through the fall of this year and into 2021 we will be working on the following introductory modules for the series: - Creating and Sharing Materials - Using Materials - Introduction to the Opening Up Copyright Module Series. In addition, and with support from the University of Alberta's Support for Advancement of Scholarship (SAS) fund, a set of modules dealing with copyright in the K-12 context are being developed in collaboration with Dr. Cathy Adams (University of Alberta, Faculty of Education). All of these modules, including slides and scripts, are published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence. This means they can be adopted and adapted by anyone. If you are linking to, adopting, or adapting the modules we would love to hear about it! Please add this information to our OUC ModuleUse Community Page <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JrSd5PWShvyExN8NEZOgFpuTaF8DhKrkkgkmWSC…> . As a reminder, the Opening Up Copyright CommunityPages <https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Ul4YeOovdLOEaczPK7RipG_OgOd7etOcJI8ppT…> provide an overview of the entire suite of modules to be developed as part of the series. We encourage you to contribute to the individual module pages, where we hope to collect your ideas, feedback or suggestions. Consider sharing suggestions for Learning Objectives, ideas for Narratives or Contextual Stories, Test Questions, Links to Useful Resources, or Other Suggestions for modules that interest you. You also have the option of including your name on these pages, so that we can provide attribution for your contributions at the end of the module. Feedback can also be sent directly to copyright(a)ualberta.ca with the subject line “OER Copyright Module.” And finally, don't forget to register for the ABC Fall Speakers' Series <https://abccopyright.com/fall-speakers-series-2020/>. On November 25 contributors from *both* the Opening Up Copyright *and* the Canadian Association of Research Libraries' (CARL) Copyright Open Educational Resource for University Instructors and Staff project teams will be presenting on how these two initiatives are working together to broaden copyright literacy.

4 years, 6 months

Question re: migration agreement example

by Cynthia Holt

Hello Everyone, We have received email permission from an author to use his commercial textbook (he owns the copyright to his book) under a CC licence, but we need to have something more formal signed by him to facilitate this process. Do any of you have an example of an agreement for a situation like this that you might be open to sharing with me? Thanks! Sincerely, Cynthia Cynthia Holt Executive Director / Directrice générale Council of Atlantic University Libraries / Conseil des bibliothèques universitaires de l’Atlantique (CAUL-CBUA) 120 Western Parkway, Suite 202, Bedford, NS B4B 0V2 | W: caul-cbua.ca<https://caul-cbua.ca/> | T: 902-830-6467 | E: execdir(a)caul-cbua.ca<mailto:execdir@caul-cbua.ca> CAUL-CBUA represents member libraries across the region, all of whom sit on the unceded and traditional territories of First Peoples. In Newfoundland and Labrador, our libraries sit on the homelands of the Inuit of Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut, the Innu of Nitassinan, the Beothuk and the Mi’kmaq peoples. In Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, we find our friends and colleagues situated on the territory of the Mi’kmaq. In New Brunswick, libraries are found on the land of the Wəlastəkwiyik, Mi’kmaq, and Passamaquoddy Peoples. We at CAUL-CBUA wish to express our sincerest gratitude to the First Peoples who share their ancestral homelands with us all. CAUL-CBUA représente les bibliothèques membres de la région, qui sont toutes situées sur les territoires non cédés et traditionnels des Premiers Peuples. À Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, nos bibliothèques sont situées sur les terres des Inuits du Nunatsiavut et du NunatuKavut, des Innus de Nitassinan, des Béothuks et des Mi’kmaq. À l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard et en Nouvelle-Écosse, nous retrouvons nos amis et collègues situés sur le territoire des Mi’kmaq. Au Nouveau-Brunswick, on trouve des bibliothèques sur les terres des peuples Wəlastəkwiyik, Mi’kmaq, et Passamaquoddy. Nous souhaitons exprimer notre plus sincère gratitude aux peuples autochtones qui partagent avec nous leurs terres ancestrales.

4 years, 6 months

Webinar: Publishing Indigenous Perspectives Online: How RavenSpace Editors Approach Collaboration

by Arianna Cheveldave

Dear colleagues, I hope you can join us for the following webinar on Tuesday, October 6, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. PDT: Publishing Indigenous Perspectives Online: How RavenSpace Editors Approach Collaboration<https://bccampus.ca/event/publishing-indigenous-perspectives-online-how-rav…>. RavenSpace, developed by UBC Press, is a digital platform for publications that aims to support Indigenous community-based research and authorship. It functions as a place where, with community permission, Indigenous knowledge can be shared, but also protected—where knowledge holders may maintain and assert their cultural protocols that govern how certain materials should be accessed, and by whom. In this session, we will show how RavenSpace has integrated publishing and web design workflows with the needs and rights of Indigenous community members and authors. We will share some of RavenSpace’s collaborative approaches, and, more broadly, will discuss additional ways to build cultural considerations into editorial and design choices. Attendees are welcome to share their own examples of approaching culturally sensitive materials in a collaborative environment, as we will allow time for discussion. More information on how to register can be found here: https://bccampus.ca/event/publishing-indigenous-perspectives-online-how-rav… Best, Arianna Cheveldave Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus Email: acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave@bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn: ariannacheveldave<https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arianna-cheveldave> • Pronouns: She/her ________________________________ I acknowledge that the land I live, work, and play on is the unceded territory of the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), W̱SÁNEĆ, and Songhees Nation of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) peoples. I thank them for their hospitality.

4 years, 6 months

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