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ACRL Webcast on Open Access
by Flewelling, Debra 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

FYI - in case you don't receive their newsletter. ACRL Presents Webcast - What We Talk About When We Talk About Open Access [http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/ACRL/ACRL%20Update/OpenAccessWeek_lo… ACRL for a free ACRL Presents webcast to kick-off Open Access Week. The webcast, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Open Access<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fala.informz…>” will be held Wednesday, October 25, from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Central time. Open Access Week is an international event that celebrates the open movement. We work with colleagues to plan creative programs that spread awareness of open access. But what do we talk about when we talk about open access? How can we tailor our messages to communicate with a variety of audiences succinctly and persuasively? Join colleagues to reflect on our messages and see how peers have taught about openness. Free registration<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fala.informz…> is now available. The webcast will be recorded and the archive will be shared after the live event. Debra Flewelling Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian Douglas College P 604.527.5190 F 604.527.5193 Debra.Flewelling(a)douglascollege.ca<mailto:Debra.Flewelling(a)douglascollege.ca>

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Tension and Risk in Open Scholarship: A Conversation (Oct. 26, 5pm-8pm, BCIT downtown)
by Hope Power 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

Hi all, Just wanted to share an invitation to participate in [ http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/32773 | Tension and Risk in Open Scholarship: A Conversation ] : http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/32773 Date : Thursday, October 26, 2017 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm Location : British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Downtown Campus, Atrium Room, 8th floor (Room 825) Registration: [ http://www.lib.sfu.ca/node/32773/sfu_register | Register ] for this event here: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/node/32773/sfu_register Event details : Arrivals and appetizers: 5:00-6:00pm. Session from 6:00-8:00pm including coffee and dessert We use “open” as though it is free of ideology, ignoring how much “openness,” particularly as it’s used by technologists, is closely intertwined with “meritocracy” — this notion, a false one, that “open” wipes away inequalities, institutions, biases, history, that “open” “levels the playing field. ” -Audrey Waters, From Open to Justice Spurred by the need to make research and education accessible to all, the open movement has gained ground as the Internet evolved to enable easy sharing of different forms of media and scholarship. Open practices are enabling faculty, staff and students at educational institutions in British Columbia and beyond to reduce barriers to research and education by opening their classrooms, incorporating new resources and perspectives, broadly sharing their data, and contributing to public knowledge. But the adoption of open scholarship cannot be assumed to free of biases and conflicts, and the impacts of open practices can differ depending on the context of those practices. Unaddressed tensions caused by “openness” can lead scholars, students, and community members to feel alienated, exploited, or unheard. Unexamined risks can lead to unintended outcomes for any open endeavours. Within these intersections lies an opportunity for open scholarship: to directly examine and acknowledge the tensions and risks inherent in openness, and to thereby create a space in which dialogue is generated and understanding of openness is deepened. Please join BCcampus, BCIT, SFU and UBC in celebrating [ http://www.openaccessweek.org/ | International Open Access Week ] for a panel that examines the threads running through different tensions in the open movements, including: * Indigenous & Traditional Knowledge: Open scholarship may not be respectful of community authority, ownership, and norms of knowledge sharing. * Ethics and Privacy: Open scholarship may complicate the impacts of human participants in research, retrospective digitization, and students’ right to privacy. * Student-faculty relationships: Affordability conversations around open educational resources may lead to tensions around faculty motivation to provide the best learning resources. Open pedagogies can create risks for students: are they supported and what rights do they have in terms of their privacy, copyright, and consent? * Accessibility and inclusivity: Open practices may lead to digital redlining for individuals and communities and may not be truly accessible for everyone. * Instructor-Institution relationships: Open practices may allow the appropriation of instructors’ and adjuncts’ work putting their value at risk. Featured speakers include: * Amanda Coolidge (BCcampus) * Jessica Gallinger (SFU Library) * Christina Illnitichi (AMS, UBC) * David Gaertner (First Nations and Indigenous Studies, UBC) * Lisa Nathan (School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, UBC) * Additional speakers TBA Hope to see you there! Thanks, Hope (on behalf of the BCIT/SFU/UBC event planning team) -- Hope Power Teaching & Learning Librarian W.A.C. Bennett Library (Burnaby) Simon Fraser University hpower(a)sfu.ca / 778.782.4359

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Open Action Kit for Open Access Week
by Amanda Coolidge 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Good morning Sharing this resource in preparation for any Open Access Week events you may be hosting/sponsoring: https://sparcopen.github.io/Open-Action-Kit/ Thanks Amanda -- Amanda Coolidge Senior Manager, Open Education BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate. 120- 645 Fort Street | Victoria BC V8W 1G2 Tel 250-818-4592 | [ http://www.bccampus.ca/ | www.bccampus.ca ] Skype: coolidge.amanda Twitter: @acoolidge

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Economics - open-access, interactive ebook-based course
by Flewelling, Debra 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

FYI - looks very interesting - https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/a-new-way-to-learn-economics http://www.core-econ.org/ Debra Debra Flewelling Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian T 604.527.5190 F 604.527.5193 Debra.Flewelling(a)douglascollege.ca<mailto:Debra.Flewelling(a)douglascollege.ca> [Description: logo_2012_for_email_signature77172]

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Wikipedia edit-a-thon document
by Lin Brander 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

Not totally sure this got through - I got a funny message back. Here it is again: Hello Everyone, Here is the document that Deirdre Grace has developed - it will likely be finalized and formatted very early next week. Please let Deirdre know if you have any feedback. Are there other BC people notable for their research and work on open education? Arthur 'Gill' Green Rajiv Jhangiani Lin Brander| Librarian, Electronics & Computer Systems; Open Education|British Columbia Institute of Technology T 604-432-8922<tel:604-432-8922>| E lbrander(a)bcit.ca<mailto:lbrander(a)bcit.ca>| W bcit.ca/library<http://www.bcit.ca/library/>

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Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
by Lin Brander 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

Hello Everyone, Here is the document that Deirdre Grace has developed - it will likely be finalized and formatted very early next week. Please let Deirdre know if you have any feedback. Are there other BC people notable for their research and work on open education? Arthur 'Gill' Green Rajiv Jhangiani

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New book on making open textbooks with students
by Flewelling, Debra 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

Hello, FYI - the following book looks very interesting: The Rebus Community<http://rebus.community/> has developed a new resource to support those interested in running an open textbook project in their classroom. The new collaboratively-created Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students<https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/> contains project ideas, case studies, resources, sample assignments and more. You can learn more about the project here<https://about.rebus.community/2017/08/new-resource-from-the-rebus-community…>. Debra Flewelling Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian T 604.527.5190 F 604.527.5193 Debra.Flewelling(a)douglascollege.ca<mailto:Debra.Flewelling(a)douglascollege.ca> [Description: logo_2012_for_email_signature77172]

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Invitation to Join: Creative Commons Open Education Platform
by Amanda Coolidge 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

Greetings Open Education Colleagues: In early 2017, the Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) completed a consultation process of renewing and reorganizing itself to support a strong and growing global movement. The year-long process resulted in the CCGN [ https://creativecommons.org/about/global-affiliate-network/network-strategy/ | Global Network Strategy ] . Part of the new strategy is to establish defined areas of focus, or “platforms,” which will drive CC’s global activities. [ https://creativecommons.org/about/global-affiliate-network/network-platform… | Platforms ] are how we organize areas of work for the CC community, where individuals and institutions organize and coordinate themselves across the CC Global Network. In the spirit of openness and to effectively strategize, these platforms are open to all interested parties working in the platform area and adjacent spaces. That’s why Creative Commons invites you to join the CC Global Network Open Education Platform! WHY join? * Stay connected to global actions in open education resources, practice, and policy. * Identify, plan and coordinate multi-national open education, practices and policy projects to collaboratively solve education challenges with an amazing group of open education leaders from around the world. * Secure funding (from Creative Commons and other funding sources) for the open education projects we collectively select. * Contribute to global perspectives on open education to strengthen advocacy worldwide. * Connect your country / region to global open education initiatives. * Be on the forefront in implementing Creative Commons' global network strategy. * Meet annually, in-person, at the Creative Commons Summit with members of the CC Open Education Platform to celebrate successes, share best practices, and plan for the next year. * Explore, practice, and share innovative methods for inclusive and open engagement with educators, learners and governments around the world.. WHO should join? * Open education advocates working in the areas of open educational resources, open educational practices, and/or open education policy. WHAT are we working on right now? * Reaching the right people (you!) to build a strong open education platform. * Developing decision making and engagement structures. * Defining the goals and projects the CC Open Education Platform will pursue. Joining the CC Open Education Platform is easy and free: 1. Sign up for the email list: [ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cc-openedu | https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cc-openedu ] 2. Sign up for IM (Slack or IRC): * [ https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/ | Slack: sign up ] : (it will send an invitation email), then sign up to the [ https://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/C2S2MFAJW | #cc-openedu channel ] * IRC: to join the #creativecommons-openedu IRC channel, connect via Freenode. 3. Review and contribute to the platform [ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-HPog_7pPUXrECzne1t6X7eKwo8TzpYBZ8iC8Ff… | draft working doc. ] 4. Attend and participate in the monthly meetings. * The next meeting is October 18: 8:00pm / October 19: 9:00am (PDT, UTC -7). * Note: every meeting has two different times - so everyone can attend one of the meetings during local daylight hours. Please join the e-mail list and IM channel, introduce yourself and we’ll see you at the next meeting! With gratitude, Amanda Coolidge CC Open Education Platform Member -- Amanda Coolidge Senior Manager, Open Education BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate. 120- 645 Fort Street | Victoria BC V8W 1G2 Tel 250-818-4592 | [ http://www.bccampus.ca/ | www.bccampus.ca ] Skype: coolidge.amanda Twitter: @acoolidge

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Hosting an OpenCon Satellite Event
by Amanda Coolidge 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

For this interested http://www.opencon2017.org/satellite <http://www.opencon2017.org/satellite> Amanda Coolidge Senior Manager, Open Education BCcampus | connect.collaborate.innovate. 120- 645 Fort Street | Victoria BC V8W 1G2 Tel 250-818-4592 | www.bccampus.ca <http://www.bccampus.ca/> Skype: coolidge.amanda Twitter: @acoolidge

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Pressbooks 4.0 and 4.1 Updates
by Lucas Wright 23 Aug '17

23 Aug '17

Dear Pressbooks user Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca) and open textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection that are hosted in BCcampus' internal instance of Pressbooks (opentextbc.ca) was upgraded to Pressbooks 4.0 this summer and has recently been upgraded to Pressbooks 4.1. We are sorry to get these changes to you after the update and all future notices will be sent to you before the updates occur. Below we have included Pressbooks updates that will be noticeable to users.For a complete list of changes, see [ https://github.com/BCcampus/pressbooks-mpdf/commits/master | https://github.com/BCcampus/pressbooks-mpdf/commits/master ] . Features 4.0 * LaTeX outputs are now at a sufficient resolution for print applications (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/819 | #819 ] ). * You can now change statuses in bulk on the Organize page (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/issues/249 | #249 ] and [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/822 | #822 ] ). * Deleted content can now be restored from Text → Trash (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/tree/9283c26504007ba55259672c5cb9e… | 9283c26 ] ). 4.1 * Cloning! Clone any public, properly-licensed book from any Pressbooks 4.1 network including your own (super admins can clone any book from their own network, regardless of license) (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/issues/841 | #841 ] , [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/857 | #857 ] , [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/881 | #881 ] , [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/885 | #885 ] ). * Word count for the entire book and for content marked for export is now displayed on the Organize page (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/issues/842 | #842 ] , [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/878 | #878 ] , [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/880 | #880 ] ). * Users can now delete their own books from the book menu (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/issues/845 | #845 ] , [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/864 | #864 ] ). * Punjabi Gurmukhi support (props to [ https://github.com/alexpflores | @alexpflores ] ) (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/877 | #877 ] ). Fixes 4.0 * DOCX and ODT files exported from Google Docs (which lack standard metadata) can now be imported without issue via the import module (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/issues/837 | #837 ] and [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/838 | #838 ] ). * Images are now set to a prince-image-resolution of auto, normal rather than 300dpi for more reliably high-quality print PDF output (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/issues/744 | #744 ] and [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/776 | #776 ] ). * Text suggesting that we offer printing services has been removed from the Publish page (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/784 | #784 ] ). * Current privacy settings are now displayed properly when updating book privacy from the Organize page (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/issues/711 | #711 ] and [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/801 | #801 ] ). * The Search and Replace module no longer searches items in the trash (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/commit/697873425439be829abaeb077fb… | 6978734 ] ). * Fix: Miscellaneous improvements to improve performance and reduce unnecessary error output. 4.1 * The TOC endpoint in the Pressbooks REST API v2 now uses chapters and parts for consistency with the endpoints for these post types. * The EPUB importer now properly detects and handles optional whitespaces (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/issues/554 | #554 ] , [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/874 | #874 ] ). * Image URLs with #fixme on the end will now be properly copied into EPUBs during export (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/887 | #887 ] ) Enhancements 4.0 * Expanded metadata is now hidden on the Book Information page unless needed (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/issues/804 | #804 ] and [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/832 | #832 ] ) 4.1 * Book editors can now modify theme options and custom CSS (see [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/issues/862 | #862 ] , [ https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/pull/863 | #863 ] ). For questions, please ask the [ https://bccampus.mycusthelp.ca/webapp/_rs/(S(p5kmxhtjq0mru40nixjnzwck))/Req… | BCcampus Helpdesk. ] Thanks, Lucas Lucas Wright Open Education Advisor, Open Education BCcampus | connect.collaborate.innovate. 120- 645 Fort Street | Victoria BC V8W 1G2 Tel 250-818-4592 | www.bccampus.ca Skype: lucwrite Twitter: @lucwrite

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