Hi all,

I don’t know if this will be helpful, but the UBC Vancouver Senate recently passed some guidelines about 3rd party homework systems (relating to cost and percentage of final grades they can be used for), and we tried to work through some of those issues in the document accompanying the guidelines (I am on the Senate Teaching and Learning Committee, which commissioned the preparation of the document and passed the guidelines before they went to the full Senate).

You can see the guidelines and our accompanying document on this post on the Open UBC website.

I am not sure we addressed the specific points you raise, though, Heather. If I can help with that beyond what we’ve got in the document linked above, please let me know and I’m happy to try!

Christina

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On July 17, 2019 at 10:20:13 AM, Ross, Heather (heather.ross@usask.ca) wrote:

Hello all.

I’m working on a document for our administration related to the use of online homework systems (OHS) at our university. I need to differentiate between textbooks, including digital textbooks (I’m looking at you Pearson) and homework systems. While they often come bundled, it’s not always the case and I need to make it clear that we’re looking at using existing policy to hopefully bring some oversight to the proliferation of OHS at our institution, while not forcing textbooks into this (unless bundled is the only option). If anyone has some text that might suit this, like a definition of an OHS that makes it’s clear it can stand alone from a textbook, I would be most appreciative of you sharing it with me.

Thank you in advance.

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@usask.ca

http://teaching.usask.ca/index.php


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