Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce that BCcampus has established an agreement with Creative Commons to offer a 15% discount for staff and faculty working at post-secondary institutions in British Columbia to take any of the Creative Commons certificate courses. The CC Certificate courses provide a study of the public domain, copyright, Creative Commons licenses, and what it means to engage in our global, shared, commons of knowledge and culture. <https://certificates.creativecommons.org/> Learn more about the CC Certificate program.<https://certificates.creativecommons.org/> The next set of courses start June 10, but the discount will be available for future course offerings as well. Register for one of the June courses here<https://www.classy.org/event/2024-cc-certificate-course-registration/e500320/register/new/select-tickets>. Directions for the BCcampus discount: 1. Click on the CC Certificate registration<https://www.classy.org/event/2024-cc-certificate-course-registration/e500320> link. 2. Select the course you would like to take. 3. Type in BCCAMPUS15 in the promo code spot. You should see 15% deducted from the total before you pay. Good news: Creative Commons has more scholarship tickets for the Open Culture/GLAM Certificate! Use code Y3GLAMSCHOLAR60 during registration to get 60% off your ticket, while scholarship tickets last. Curious for more information from a course participant perspective? See what people say about the courses, including this great quote from Craig Finlay<https://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/testimonials/> below. If you’d like to chat with a course graduate directly, contact learning(a)creativecommons, and they’ll connect you! “If at all possible, take this course. It’s probably the most valuable and rewarding professional development training I’ve done since becoming an academic librarian in 2013. I thought I had a pretty decent grasp of the ins and outs of Creative Commons before taking the course, and the difference in my knowledge and skillset now compared to then is night and day. In my experience, the heavy majority of faculty don’t have a great idea of what CC is, how it works, or what it can do for them. Being a campus resource for CC has raised my profile at the university, which has done wonders for work building and running an OER program. As soon as I started helping faculty with individual reference consultations about CC, word started getting around. Now I’m getting faculty I’ve never met emailing me to ask for advice on a CC question, because they heard about me from a peer. Money well spent.” – Stephen Craig Finlay Best, Josie Josie Gray, MDes she/her/hers Acting Director, Open Education Hear my name<https://namedrop.io/josiegray> Cell: 778-584-7808 • Email: jgray(a)bccampus.ca Twitter: @josiea_g<https://twitter.com/josiea_g> • LinkedIn: josieagray<https://www.linkedin.com/in/josieagray/> Consider nominating someone for the BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education<https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/awards-for-excellence-in-open-ed/>, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the open education movement in British Columbia. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • BCcampus Learning. Doing. Leading. BCcampus.ca<https://bccampus.ca/> • X<https://twitter.com/BCcampus> • LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/bccampus/> As a settler, I am grateful to live and work on Moh’kins’tsis on Treaty 7 lands, which includes the territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai Nations), the Tsuut’ina Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley Nations). This place is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. [cid:d3d26b06-fb98-4f39-b86e-7faa871b64bd]<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/23d4d60c728f4effb3fdcbd679930bda(a)bccampus.ca?anonymous&ep=signature> Book time to meet with me<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/23d4d60c728f4effb3fdcbd679930bda(a)bccampus.ca?anonymous&ep=signature> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BCcampus Regional Roadshow • Driving Learning & Connection June 10-18, 2024 • Kelowna, Kamloops, and Castlegar, B.C. Learn more at: roadshow.bccampus.ca<https://roadshow.bccampus.ca/>