Hi there fellow Open Educators, It is with great excitement that I share the following official announcement with all of you: BCIT's Open Education Working Group is thrilled to announce that BCIT is the recipient of a 2020 Open Education Sustainability Grant for Institutions from BCcampus. The grant consists of $32,250 from BCcampus with matching funds from BCIT to support the following initiatives: BCIT Faculty Champion/Open Fellow Grant This grant recipient will: * expand open education advocacy with faculty and students * liaise with the BCIT Student Association * organize/participate in events and workshops * conduct a small research project or survey focused on BCIT faculty or students and the use of OER. Find more information and the application form at https://open.bcit.ca/proposals Closes November 3, 2019 for a January 2020 start. BCIT Open Education Grant Program: Continue the open education grant program. BCIT is in its fourth year of offering small open education grants (up to $5K) to faculty to develop open education resources (OER) or to redesign courses to incorporate open educational practices and open course materials. To date, 24 grants have been awarded. Call for proposals for the next round of grants will go out early January 2020 Trades Online Content Conversion: Some time ago, BCcampus helped fund the creation of Tools for the Trades, an online learning resource created with Adobe Flash. https://ltc.bcit.ca/multimedia/_SOC/trades/ The grant will help with the conversion of this resource into a sustainable and accessible format. Open Publishing Program: Establish an open publishing program which will offer a variety of levels of support for faculty including the following: * convert instructor learning material already in digital format to PressBooks (if the format allows conversion) * support instructors who wish to work in PressBooks themselves - workshops and 1-1 support The BCIT Open Education Working Group thanks James Rout, AVP Education Support and Innovation, for his ongoing support of and advocacy for open education initiatives at BCIT. To find out more about Open Education at BCIT, visit open.bcit.ca Cheers, Rosario [rosario.jpg] Rosario Passos Instructional Development Consultant (IDC) Learning and Teaching Centre British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2 Tel: (604) 456 1266 rosario_passos@bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos@bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc Education for a Complex World Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail