February 2023 - Bcopen - lists.bccampus.ca

New Open Course Packs from BCcampus
by Arianna Cheveldave 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, BCcampus is excited to announce that we have recently posted four new open course packs to the B.C. Open Collection<https://collection.bccampus.ca/>: * Environmental Geology<https://collection.bccampus.ca/course-packs/environmental-geology/> by Steven Earle, TRU * Psychology of Language<https://collection.bccampus.ca/course-packs/psychology-of-language/> by Dinesh Ramoo, TRU and CNC * Introduction to Innovation<https://collection.bccampus.ca/course-packs/introduction-to-innovation/> by Katherine Carpenter, KPU * Introduction to Entrepreneurship<https://collection.bccampus.ca/course-packs/introduction-to-entrepreneurshi…> by Katherine Carpenter, KPU These course packs were all funded by grants issued by BCcampus for the purpose of creating open course materials that align with post-secondary courses in British Columbia. Each course pack is divided into modules or weeks that contain teaching materials such as lesson plans, lecture slides, student activities, and readings. All four of these courses are also aligned with open textbooks written by the same author as the course pack. All four course packs are licensed under CC BY 4.0<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> licences. The materials for these courses, as well as all BCcampus course packs<https://collection.bccampus.ca/search/?q=course&type[]=Course%20Pack>, can be downloaded from the B.C. Open Collection. If you use one of these or any other open course pack, please tell us you're using open course materials<https://open.bccampus.ca/use-open-textbooks/tell-us-youre-using-open-course…> by filling out an adoption form. You can read more about the Open Online Courses Project<https://bccampus.ca/projects/open-education/open-online-courses-project/> at bccampus.ca. Best, Arianna Cheveldave [Hear my name]<http://nmdrp.me/ariannacheveldave> Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus Email: acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn: ariannacheveldave<https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arianna-cheveldave> • Pronouns: She/her Need help with LaTeX<https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes#What_is_LaTe…>? Contact latexsupport(a)bccampus.ca ________________________________ 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), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. I thank them for their hospitality.

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Call for Equity Reviewers: Social Sciences
by Arianna Cheveldave 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

This message is sent on behalf of Josie Gray (jgray(a)bccampus.ca). ** Dear B.C. Open Education Community, This year, BCcampus will be funding two adaptation projects focused on making open textbooks more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. The books selected are well adopted in British Columbia, but it has been a number of years since they were updated. As a first step, we are looking for two people to review each book using an Equity in OER Rubric. Applications are due by the end of the day on March 13, 2023. For more information, see the calls for reviewers: * Call for Equity Reviewers: Introduction to Psychology – 1st Canadian Edition<https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/apply-equity-review-for-intr…> * Call for Equity Reviewers: Introduction to Sociology – 2nd Canadian Edition<https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/apply-equity-review-for-intr…> If you have questions, please contact Josie Gray, manager of production and publishing, at jgray(a)bccampus.ca. Please pass these calls on to anyone in your network who may be interested in this opportunity. Sincerely, Josie Gray

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Adapting a Pressbook for BC
by Hall, Nathan 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Hello everyone. The group I lead up at Douglas College is interested in adapting the Pressbook "Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA)" for British Columbia. https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/universaldesign/ I am looking for two things: 1. Is anyone else already working on adapting this book? If so, how could we help? 2. Is there anyone interested in working with us on this project? Thank you. Nathan Hall Douglas College Educational Technology and Pedagogy Coordinator Faculty of Language, Literature, and Performing Arts Email: halln1(a)douglascollege.ca<mailto:halln1(a)douglascollege.ca>

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Call for Content: Multimedia Anti-Oppression Ally Toolkit (Repost)
by Arianna Cheveldave 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

This message is sent on behalf of Dr. Surita Jhangiani (surita.jhangiani(a)ubc.ca). A similar message was sent out on December 12, 2022. ** Dear colleagues, Join the team behind the Decolonizing Together Symposium at UBC on Thursday, February 9 at 3:30 p.m. Pacific for a virtual information session about their forthcoming Multimedia Ally Toolkit<https://indigenizinglearning.educ.ubc.ca/ally-toolkit/>. Click here to join the Zoom meeting<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81732285846?pwd=dktsS2ZYamF0N3BZUmE4bmFLR0pEQT09> (meeting ID: 817 3228 5846 and passcode: 067547). As you may recall, the team behind the Decolonizing Together Symposium at UBC is pleased to invite contributions to their forthcoming Multimedia Ally Toolkit. Hosted on the Decolonizing Teaching Indigenizing Learning website<https://indigenizinglearning.educ.ubc.ca/decolonizing-together-symposium/>, this open toolkit will feature text-based, podcast, and video content to bring to light the perspectives and experiences of racialized and marginalized people previously absent in teacher education programming. Through this medium, they aim to address how Indigenous erasure, racism, ableism, and multiple other forms of oppression are taken up in the Faculties of Education at UBC and how to address existing gaps through changes to practice and policy. Building on the thought-provoking presentations during the two Decolonizing Together Symposiums in October 2021 and January 2022, they continue to aim at cultivating a diverse community to create and sustain equitable and inclusive campuses and teacher education experiences. Topics addressed in this toolkit may include anti-racism, anti-oppression, anti-ableism, sexuality and gender discrimination, inclusive learning practice, and settler of colour experiences. Their goal is to provide in-service and pre-service teachers with practical and applicable approaches to addressing this content in their teaching, or for facing challenges related to these issues as they arise in day-to-day practice. Interested contributors are asked to send a brief proposal (maximum 300 words) to the team by March 1, 2023. Final papers and other content are due July 1, 2023. Parameters for final works: * Papers: 3500–5000 words (not including references) * Audio: 10–15 minutes of podcast feed or other audio recording * Video: 10 minutes in length Submission timeline: * Proposals due: March 1, 2023 * Acceptance notification: April 1, 2023 * Final works submitted: July 1, 2023 * Publication: September 1, 2023 Please direct any questions to Dr. Surita Jhangiani (surita.jhangiani(a)ubc.ca). Best, Arianna Cheveldave [Hear my name]<http://nmdrp.me/ariannacheveldave> Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus Email: acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn: ariannacheveldave<https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arianna-cheveldave> • Pronouns: She/her Need help with LaTeX<https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes#What_is_LaTe…>? Contact latexsupport(a)bccampus.ca ________________________________ 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), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. I thank them for their hospitality.

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New OER: Introduction to Criminology
by Amanda Grey 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

You may have already seen this elsewhere, but I wanted to share! Introduction to Criminology Edited by Dr. Shereen Hassan and Dan Lett, MAS  [cid:image001.png(a)01D937D6.06935C30] Link to Resource: Introduction to Criminology<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/introcrim/> Although this open education resource (OER) is written with the needs and abilities of first-year undergraduate criminology students in mind, it is designed to be flexible. As a whole, the OER is amply broad to serve as the main textbook for an introductory course, yet each chapter is deep enough to be useful as a supplement for subject-area courses; authors use plain and accessible language as much as possible, but introduce more advanced, technical concepts where appropriate; the text gives due attention to the historical “canon” of mainstream criminological thought, but it also challenges many of these ideas by exploring alternative, critical, and marginalized perspectives. After all, criminology is more than just the study of crime and criminal law; it is an examination of the ways human societies construct, contest, and defend ideas about right and wrong, the meaning of justice, the purpose and power of laws, and the practical methods of responding to broken rules and of mending relationships. Special thanks to Leah Ballantyne, LLB LLM, a Cree lawyer from the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Pukatawagan, Manitoba, who provided expert Indigenous consultation/editing for this textbook.  This OER was jointly funded and supported by KPU Arts, KPU OER Grants, KPU OPUS, BCcampus and the Justice Institute of BC.     Check out the KPU Pressbooks Catalogue<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/catalog/openkpu> of works published by the Open Publishing Suite (OPUS)<https://www.kpu.ca/library/OPUS> at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.  Learn more about KPU Open Education<http://www.kpu.ca/open>. Follow us on Twitter at @KPUopen<https://twitter.com/KPUopen>. [cid:bee1da83-6995-452d-a640-df5b4d6c0d72] Amanda Grey, MLIS (she/her) Open Education Strategist, Teaching & Learning Commons Kwantlen Polytechnic University e amanda.grey(a)kpu.ca<mailto:amanda.grey(a)kpu.ca> w www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open> I live, work, and play in a region south of the Fraser River which overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semihamoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlen peoples. Kwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action

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