December 2017 - Canadaoer - lists.bccampus.ca

New Linear Algebra Textbook
by Jenni Hayman 18 Jun '20

18 Jun '20

Hi Everyone, Just saw this announcement go by in another open space, always interesting to have new books on the open market! In partnership<https://www.degruyter.com/dg/newsitem/256/de-gruyter-and-united-nations-coo…> with the United Nations, De Gruyter has just published a new Open Access text book on Linear Algebra<https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/495839>, which is available in both PDF and epub formats. https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/495839 // Jenni Hayman Program Manager eCampusOntario 226.500.0845 [https://i.xink.io/Images/Get/N87356/e.png] 211 Yonge St. 2nd Floor Toronto, ON, M5B 1M4 ecampusontario.ca<http://ecampusontario.ca/>

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Happy Holidays
by Maureen Glynn 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

On behalf of Naza and the whole DES Team, just wanted to say thanks to the Canada OER community for your amazing inspiration and sharing of ideas throughout the year. May the holiday season bring you peace, hope and joy.

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Re: [Canadaoer] Athabasca University / Maryland University and OER
by Krysta McNutt 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

Hi Everyone, I just sent a message on to a contact I have in the Provost Office at Athabasca University to see if Dr. Matthew L. Prineas (Provost and Vice-president, Academic) might be available/interested in sharing his experience from University of Maryland with the Canada OER group. At a minimum, I'll pursue that he connect with you, Naza. :) -- Krysta McNutt, PMP Open Education Project Manager Centre for Teaching and Learning University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada krystam(a)ualberta.ca | 780-710-5674 | @mcnuttsays <http://www.twitter.com/mcnuttsays> Join the UA Open Education Interest Group, here <http://www.mailman.srv.ualberta.ca/mailman/listinfo/openeducation>. Learn more about Open Education at the UofA, here <https://www.ualberta.ca/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/teaching-developme…> . *The University of Alberta is located **o**n Treaty 6 territory, the territory of the Papaschase, and the homeland of the * *Métis Nation.*

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Canadian authors/reviewers and OpenStax books
by Lauri Aesoph 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

Hi Everyone, As promised, attached is a spreadsheet listing the Canadian authors/reviewers who have contributed to OpenStax books. Regards, Lauri Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovat e . 250-893-0258 | laesoph(a)bccampus.ca 120-645 Fort Street | Coast & Straits Salish Territory | Victoria, BC | V8W1G2 [ https://mail.bccampus.ca/bccampus.ca | BCcampus.ca ] | @BCcampus | #BCcampus Sign up for [ https://bccampus.ca/bccampus-around-the-web/ | BCcampus news ]

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Invitation for your Physics & Psychology faculty
by Rajiv Jhangiani 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

Hello everyone, At BCcampus, we recently launched two COEPs (Communities of Open Education Practitioners), for Physics and Psychology. The idea behind creating these groups is to facilitate collaboration and sharing among like-minded disciplinary colleagues across different institutions, both within and beyond BC. This might, for example, involve proposing and peer reviewing revisions to within specific open textbooks, sharing ancillary teaching resources, or even helping identify the need for/collaboratively developing additional open educational resources. These groups are designed to be informal and, importantly, the level of involvement is entirely up to the individual. So, for example, an instructor may choose to draw on shared resources for their own teaching and assist colleagues by reviewing a newly-discovered open textbook. Or they may choose to propose the development of a question bank to support an open textbook, recruit collaborators, and apply to BCcampus for funding to support their project. In each case, we have created a Google Group to facilitate communication (this functions like a private listserv) and a private Hypothes.is group to facilitate sharing of annotations within specific open textbooks (click here if you are unfamiliar with social annotations). Anyone interested in joining a COEP should send an email to opentext(a)bccampus.ca. They will then be added to the Google Group and receive the link to join the private Hypothes.is group. Please feel free to share this email with interested colleagues. Thank you very much for your support of open education. On behalf of the BCcampus Open Education team, Rajiv Jhangiani Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. Advisor, Open Education BCcampus | connect.collaborate.innovate. 200-555 Seymour Street | Vancouver BC V6B 3H6 Email: rajiv(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca Twitter: @thatpsychprof

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