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:
http://open.usask.ca
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:
http://open.usask.ca
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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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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Canadian Association of Research Libraries
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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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Hello CanadaOER,
I’ve been lurking here for the past few weeks, and wanted to mention that I’ve entered the fray of this discussion list. I’ve posted below a news item we published today, and I wanted to thank once again the librarians who joined us for an exciting one-day discussion to identify opportunities for action within research libraries.
Lise
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Program Officer / Agente de programme
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Canadian Association of Research Libraries
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Ottawa Ontario K2P 0G5
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Bilingual message // Message Bilingue
CARL Brings Together OER Librarian Leaders to Identify Priorities for Action (http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carl-brings-together-oer-librarian-leaders-to-…)
September 10, 2018. – On August 22, 2018, a group of librarians committed to advancing open educational resources (OER) came together at York University for a full day of discussion towards enhancing Canadian library and librarian involvement in post-secondary OER.
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries has been monitoring the development of OER for several years, and in 2014 carried out a survey of its members regarding their involvement in OER, subsequently producing a working paper, Open Textbooks: Opportunities for Research Libraries<http://www.carl-abrc.ca/doc/open_educational_resources.pdf>.
Four years later, it is clear that library involvement in OER (and open textbooks specifically) has increased substantially. Provincial funding programs and individual projects have been developed across Canada aimed at lowering the cost of student learning materials while also offering instructors accessible content that they can tailor and develop to suit their evolving pedagogical practices. In 2012 BCcampus launched Canada’s first publicly funded open textbook development project, followed by initiatives in Alberta, Manitoba, and most recently through Ontario’s eCampusOntario. Individual OER projects aimed at supporting a specific course or area of study have also cropped up at post-secondary educational institutions throughout Canada, often the result of collaborations involving faculty, librarians, and centres for teaching and learning. Internationally, SPARC has taken a leading role in OER and open education advocacy and training, offering in 2017-2018 a first instance of its in-depth Open Education Leadership Program<https://sparcopen.org/our-work/open-education-leadership-program/> for librarians (a second offering is set to launch this month).
To identify needs at the national level related to OER involvement by research libraries, CARL invited ten emerging and established library leaders in OER to a one-day working meeting.
The meeting was hosted by York University Libraries and led by York’s Dean of Libraries, Joy Kirchner, who also sits on CARL’s Advancing Research Committee. Also representing CARL was Lise Brin, Program Officer working primarily in open scholarship. The invited participants were:
* Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC
* Dianne Cmor, Associate University Librarian, Teaching & Learning, Concordia University
* Inba Kehoe, Copyright Officer and Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Victoria
* Maude Laplante-Dubé, Bibliothécaire-conseil - Diffusion de la recherche, Université Laval
* Ann Ludbrook, Copyright and Scholarly Engagement Librarian, Ryerson University
* Hope Power, Teaching & Learning Librarian, Simon Fraser University
* Stephanie Quail, Business Librarian, York University
* Lillian Rigling, Program Coordinator, eCampus Ontario
* Ali Versluis, Open Education Librarian, University of Guelph
* Amanda Wakaruk, Copyright Librarian, University of Alberta
Some of the ideas arising from this day of discussion included: creating a “bootcamp” for librarian leaders in OER based on a train-the-trainer philosophy, implementing a distributed regional network for increasing capacity for OER advocacy and creation within libraries, forging stronger relationships with other OER stakeholder groups, and creating a statement that articulates the case for library involvement in OER. These ideas will be brought to CARL’s Advancing Research Committee and Strengthening Capacity Committee for consideration in the next weeks with a view to confirming next steps into advancing the library involvement in the OER movement in Canada.
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CARL members include Canada’s twenty-nine largest university libraries as well as two national libraries. Enhancing research and higher education are at the heart of its mission. CARL develops the capacity to support this mission, promotes effective and sustainable scholarly communication, and public policy that enables broad access to scholarly information.
For more information, please contact:
Lise Brin
Program Officer
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
902-318-4485
lise.brin(a)carl-abrc.ca<mailto:lise.brin@carl-abrc.ca>
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L'ABRC assemble un groupe de bibliothécaires chefs de file en RÉL pour identifier les actions prioritaires (http://www.carl-abrc.ca/fr/nouvelles/abrc-assemble-bibliothecaires-rel/)
10 septembre 2018. – Le 22 août 2018, un groupe de bibliothécaires ayant à cœur de promouvoir les ressources éducatives libres (RÉL ou open educational resources - OER) s'est réuni pendant toute une journée à York University pour déterminer comment accroître la participation des bibliothèques et des bibliothécaires canadiens aux ressources éducatives libres au niveau postsecondaire.
L’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada surveille l’évolution des RÉL depuis plusieurs années et a mené en 2014 un sondage auprès de ses membres au sujet de leur intérêt pour les RÉL, produisant par la suite un document de travail intitulé Open Textbooks:<http://www.carl-abrc.ca/doc/open_educational_resources.pdf> Opportunities for Research Libraries<http://www.carl-abrc.ca/doc/open_educational_resources.pdf>.
Quatre ans plus tard, il est clair que l’engouement des bibliothèques pour les RÉL (et plus précisément pour les manuels en libre accès) a augmenté considérablement. Des programmes de financement provinciaux et des projets individuels ont été mis sur pied partout au Canada afin de réduire le coût des manuels et ressources éducatives des étudiants tout en offrant aux chargés de cours et professeurs un contenu accessible qu’ils peuvent adapter et développer en fonction de l’évolution de leurs pratiques pédagogiques. En 2012, le BCcampus a lancé le premier projet de création de manuels ouverts financé par le secteur public au Canada, et a fait des émules en Alberta, au Manitoba et, plus récemment en Ontario par l’entremise d’eCampusOntario. Des projets individuels de RÉL visant à appuyer un cours ou un domaine d’études particulier ont également vu le jour dans des établissements d’enseignement postsecondaire de l’ensemble du Canada, souvent à la suite de collaborations avec des professeurs, des bibliothécaires et des centres d’enseignement et d’apprentissage. À l’échelle internationale, SPARC a joué un rôle de premier plan dans les RÉL ainsi que dans la promotion et la formation en éducation ouverte, en offrant en 2017-2018 une première mouture de son programme de leadership en éducation ouverte<https://sparcopen.org/our-work/open-education-leadership-program/> pour les bibliothécaires (une deuxième mouture devrait être lancée ce mois-ci).
Afin d'identifier les besoins au niveau national quant à la participation des bibliothèques de recherches aux RÉL, l’ABRC a invité dix chefs de file émergents et établis dans le domaine des RÉL à une réunion de travail d’une journée.
Les participantes ont été reçues par les bibliothèques universitaires de York et par leur doyenne, Joy Kirchner, qui siège également au Comité sur l’avancement de la recherche de l’ABRC. Lise Brin, agente de programme travaillant principalement dans le domaine des communications savantes ouvertes, représentait également l’ABRC. Les participantes invitées étaient :
* Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC
* Dianne Cmor, Associate University Librarian, Teaching & Learning, Concordia University
* Inba Kehoe, Copyright Officer and Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Victoria
* Maude Laplante-Dubé, Bibliothécaire-conseil - Diffusion de la recherche, Université Laval
* Ann Ludbrook, Copyright and Scholarly Engagement Librarian, Ryerson University
* Hope Power, Teaching & Learning Librarian, Simon Fraser University
* Stephanie Quail, Business Librarian, York University
* Lillian Rigling, Program Coordinator, eCampus Ontario
* Ali Versluis, Open Education Librarian, University of Guelph
* Amanda Wakaruk, Copyright Librarian, University of Alberta
Parmi les idées découlant de cette journée de discussion, citons : créer un cours pratique pour les bibliothécaires chefs de file en RÉL axé sur la formation des formateurs, mettre en place un réseau régional distribué pour accroître la capacité de plaidoyer et de création de RÉL dans les bibliothèques, approfondir les relations avec d'autres groupes de parties prenantes en RÉL, et créer une déclaration qui articule les arguments en faveur de l'implication de la bibliothèque dans les RÉL. Ces idées seront présentées au Comité sur l'avancement de la recherche et au Comité sur le renforcement des capacités de l’ABRC au cours des prochaines semaines afin de confirmer les prochaines étapes visant à faire progresser la participation de la bibliothèque au mouvement des RÉL au Canada.
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Les membres de l’ABRC comprennent les vingt-neuf plus grandes bibliothèques universitaires du Canada ainsi que deux bibliothèques nationales. L’amélioration de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur est au cœur de sa mission. L’ABRC développe la capacité d’appuyer cette mission, et favorise l’efficacité et la pérennité de la communication savante, ainsi que les politiques publiques qui permettent l’accès le plus large possible à l’information savante.
Pour plus de renseignements, prière de communiquer avec :
Lise Brin
Agente de programme
Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada
902-318-4485
lise.brin(a)carl-abrc.ca<mailto:lise.brin@carl-abrc.ca>
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Lise Brin, MLIS
Program Officer / Agente de programme
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Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada
309 rue Cooper Street, Suite 203
Ottawa Ontario K2P 0G5
T 902.318.4485
E lise.brin(a)carl-abrc.ca<mailto:lise.brin@carl-abrc.ca>
W www.carl-abrc.ca
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Happy Friday everyone.
I have the opportunity to add a couple of questions to the bank instructors and departments use for the end-of-course student satisfaction surveys that our university does. Does anyone have any examples of such questions they’ve included?
Thank you and have a great long weekend.
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 Heather,
I have pasted an email below that links to two books that might help (backstory included).
Plus, there is this:
Histoires d'Avenirs: Science-fiction pour le cours de français niveaux intermédiaire et avancé<http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/pdxopen-12>, by Annabelle Dolidon and Stéphanie Roulon.
Stories of Avenirs is a textbook based on nine French science fiction news targeted at an audience of foreign (intermediate and advanced) learners but also a native audience wishing to deepen its knowledge of modern science fiction - after a preliminary chapter which recalls the historical bases of the genre. The manual proposes a holistic approach (stylistic, linguistic, and intercultural) and asks for critical thinking through reading, interpretation, conversation, research and presentations, with a twofold objective: to develop French language skills in contemporary subjects through fiction; and to introduce French and francophone science fiction to foreign learners.
Cheers,
Rajiv
From: "Bolick, Josh" <jbolick(a)ku.edu>
Date: Monday, March 26, 2018 at 5:49 AM
To: Karen Lauritsen <klaurits(a)umn.edu>
Cc: Rajiv Jhangiani <rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca>, Sarah Cohen <sfcohen(a)umn.edu>, David Ernst <dernst(a)umn.edu>
Subject: 2 French OERs
Hi Karen,
I hope you're excellent! I'm writing to let you know that, with Rajiv's (copied) help, KU Libraries was recently able to work with the author of 2 intro french texts to make them open. Both were conventionally published, but went out of print, which reverted the rights back to the authors, and now the authors have agreed to open (CC-BY-NC) licensing for them.
Dinneen, David A., Christiansen, Hope., Kernen, Madeleine., Pensec, Herve. "Au Boulot! First-Year French." Houghton Mifflin Custom Publishing. 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15572
Dinneen, David A. & Kernen, Madeleine. "Chapeau! First-Year French" Wiley. 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15558
In addition to the primary textbooks, both include supplements to support instruction (exercises, etc). The meet the OTL criteria and we'd love to see them included so they can be more fully utilized. I realize they're a little dated, but I would guess they're still fine for intro instruction and at least they're licensed to allow for modernizing now.
Plus, as the UMN kids say: "I figured French hadn't changed that much." Let me know if you need any more information.
Cheers,
Josh
Josh Bolick
Scholarly Communication Librarian
Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright
Watson Library
University of Kansas
785 864 1828
From: Canadaoer <canadaoer-bounces(a)mail.bccampus.ca> on behalf of "Ross, Heather" <heather.ross(a)usask.ca>
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 2:55 PM
To: "canadaoer(a)kodos.bccampus.ca" <canadaoer(a)kodos.bccampus.ca>
Subject: [Canadaoer] OER For French
An instructor who teaches first year university French is looking for an open textbook. Does anyone know of something to replace this:
Invitation au monde francophone" (2nd edition), Jarvis, Gilbert A., Thérèse M. Bonin, Diane W. Birckbichler, Anne Lair, Boston: Heinle Cengage Learning, 2005.
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<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<http://open.usask.ca/>