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Survey: Canadian Distribution of OpenStax hardcover textbooks
by Arianna Cheveldave 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, BCcampus, in partnership with Vretta<https://www.vretta.com/ordering.html> and the Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative<https://openedmb.ca/>, is surveying Canadian post-secondary institutions about their knowledge about/adoption of/suggested improvements to the distribution of OpenStax’s hardbound books in Canada<https://bccampus.ca/2021/02/23/hard-back-openstax-books-come-to-canada/>, and the usage of and need for printed open textbooks in general. Faculty, librarians, bookstore staff, and students are invited to participate in the Canadian Distribution of OpenStax hardcover textbooks<https://sfu-bccampus.cmail20.com/t/d-l-qcjdty-ehldhkki-jl/> survey. All responses are anonymous. Final results will be shared out later this year. Regards, Lauri Aesoph Arianna Cheveldave 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 ________________________________ 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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KPU Open Education Research Institute 2021
by Arianna Cheveldave 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, Registration for the KPU Open Education Research Institute 2021 is now open. See below and the attached PDF for more information about this exciting opportunity for new and emerging open education researchers. Dates: Monday, May 3 | Wednesday, May 5 | Friday, May 7 Time: 9am – 12pm (PST) Program Description: As open education initiatives mature, it is imperative to investigate their impacts whether it be to advocate for institutional support or to iterate, innovate and further advance the goal of equitable access. For this reason, open education research is becoming an important facet within a healthy and thriving open ecosystem. This three-day Open Education Research Institute (OERI) provides an opportunity for new and emerging researchers interested in open educational practices to deepen their knowledge and sharpen their skillset while connecting with other researchers and joining a Provincial mentorship network. Learning Outcomes: Participants will * receive an overview of existing research on open educational practices, including a special focus on research conducted in or by researchers in British Columbia. * learn about different theoretical and methodological frameworks for research in open education * receive guidance on practical issues such as preparing applications for ethical review of their research projects and publishing their work in open access journals or repositories * work in affinity groups to draft and revise their research questions and be paired with an experienced researcher, who will serve as their mentor for the following year. The OERI is jointly funded by KPU's Office of Open Education and BCcampus. While there will be no cost to register for the event, registration is required for planning and logistics. To maintain a fruitful experience for participants, registration is limited. To cultivate a research community here is BC, priority will be given to registrants at BC institutions. For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.kpu.ca/open/oeri The full program will be published in April 2021. For questions, please contact Rajiv Jhangiani and Urooj Nizami at open(a)kpu.ca.

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You’re invited: Open Education Challenge Series during Open Education Week
by Arianna Cheveldave 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Dear colleagues, Open Education Week is fast approaching! To celebrate, BCcampus is hosting an Open Education Challenge Series<https://oechallenge.opened.ca/about-the-open-education-challenge-series/> for educators interested in learning more about open education practices (OEP). From March 1 to March 5, we will release two challenges a day. A challenge is a micro activity that you can do in 10 minutes or less that will introduce a small aspect of open education. Everyone is welcome to participate, but the challenges are designed for educators who are new to open education. Topics to explore include open licences, open textbooks, and perhaps even open pedagogy! This isn’t a bootcamp or crash course in open education: it’s more of a tasting buffet of appetizers, designed to allow even the most time-constrained educators to participate. Please share this event with your departments and networks, especially those who are new to open education. Invite your colleagues to participate with you! It’s a great way to learn about OEP together. Here is the event page and where to register: OE Challenge Series 2021<https://bccampus.ca/event/open-education-challenge-series-2021/> Sincerely, The Facilitators: Carolee Clyne, Josie Gray, Clint Lalonde, Melanie Meyers, and Krista Lambert Sent via Arianna Cheveldave 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 ________________________________ 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), W̱SÁNEĆ, and Songhees Nation of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) peoples. I thank them for their hospitality.

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Open Education Week event - BCIT
by Rosario Passos 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Hi there fellow Open Educators, BCIT will host an Open Education Week<https://www.openeducationweek.org/> event on March 3, 12:30-1:20 to celebrate the success of four open education projects that were made possible by the support of the BCIT Open Education Grant program. So, mark your calendars and come hear all about each project: challenges, process, student reaction/involvement, collaboration with colleagues, etc. while seeing a brief demo. The featured projects include: * Helen Heacock - OJS - Environmental Public Health Journal: https://journals.bcit.ca/index.php/ehj * Alex Tait and Helene Marcoux - Interviews with Plants video series * John Dion & Reza Vahidnia - IOT open textbooks: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/iotbook/ https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/vahidnia/ * Jen Kong - video lessons on human pathology Register here: https://www.bcit.ca/event/open-projects-at-bcit-lightning-talks/ Hope to see some of you there! 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(a)bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos(a)bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc Education for a Complex World Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Open Education Week - March 1-5
by Rosario Passos 22 Feb '21

22 Feb '21

Hi there fellow Open Educators, Open Education Week<https://www.openeducationweek.org/> (OEW) is just around the corner: March 1-5. OEW is an annual, global event that aims to "raise awareness and showcase the impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide." BCIT is co-hosting an event through the BC Open Education Librarians (BCOEL)<https://bcoel.ca/> group on Monday, March 1, 12:30 - 1:30pm, so save the date on your calendar! You can register for the event here<https://bccampus.ca/event/wicked-problems-and-open-remedies-a-student-centr…>. Event title: Wicked Problems and Open Remedies: A student centered approach On March 1st, please join us for this Open Education Week<https://www.openeducationweek.org/> event exploring wicked problems and open remedies. A wicked problem is one that is difficult or impossible to solve due to incomplete, contradictory, interconnected, and/or changing factors. A problem that requires a major change in practice, belief, or behaviour for many people is often a wicked problem. Drawing on this idea, we turn our attention to the wicked problem in higher education of empowering students in the classroom, and centre student voices in exploring the challenges and potential solutions for tackling this problem. This session will be opened and moderated by Arley Cruthers. Student panelists are Kristen Morgan (UBC Okanagan), Sophia Nguyen (SFU), and Caitlin Spreeuw (Douglas). Featured speakers include: Arley Cruthers (Kwantlen), Kristen Morgan (UBC Okanagan), Sophia Nguyen (SFU), and Caitlin Spreeuw (Douglas). Moderator: Donna Langille Facilitator: Arley Cruthers Arley Cruthers is a Paralympic medalist, novelist, and writing instructor. She won two World Championship gold medals and a bronze at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. She has received accolades for both her novels, Post and The Time We All Went Marching. She teaches Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where she also currently serves as the Open Education Teaching Fellow. She's also the author of the OER Business Writing for Everyone: An Inclusive Guide to Writing in the Workplace. Arley is passionate about open education, open pedagogy, ungrading, UDL and disability justice. She holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Student Panelists: Kristen Morgan (she/her), UBC Okanagan Kristen is a Physics and Maths student at UBC's Okanagan campus, where she works in the library as the Open Education Assistant and serves as a Senator-at-Large. She is passionate about the intersection of policy and advocacy, especially as they relate to sustainable long-term institutional changes. Her latest policy work addresses the prevalence of fee-based Digital Assessment Tools (pay-to-play online homework systems) in the undergraduate student experience, and reimagining assessment activities in an increasingly online environment. You can find Kristen on Twitter @KrisTheMorg. Sophia Nguyen, SFU Sophia Nguyen worked on a group project for an IAT 330 class that resulted in a children's book on textile sustainability titled "Jordan and the Magic Cape<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmonographs…>" that has just been published via Open Monograph Press (OMP) with support from the Library. Caitlin Spreeuw, Douglas College Caitlin Spreeuw is a science student currently studying at Douglas College with hopes of getting into the Faculty of Science at SFU. She is the Director of External Relations at the Douglas Students' Union, and through this role she has had the opportunity to be a part of the Open Douglas working group. Students face a lot of financial pressures due to post-secondary education; tuition fees are at an all-time high, and with the extra costs of purchasing textbooks and academic materials, students often struggle to come up with the funds they need. Caitlin is interested in open education because it is an initiative that will save students a lot of money in the long run, and help relieve that financial burden. 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(a)bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos(a)bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc Education for a Complex World Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Great article from Mike Caulfield in the NY Times
by Rosario Passos 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

Hi there fellow Open Educators, This is a great read about digital literacy (I argue fluency) and misinformation and using the SIFT method: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-attention.html Caulfield is a well known Ed Tech guy and had been a fierce advocate of Open Pedagogy, especially in content co-creation involving students. I thought some of you might enjoy the read. 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(a)bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos(a)bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc Education for a Complex World Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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The Open Education Working Group is meeting next week!
by Rosario Passos 18 Feb '21

18 Feb '21

Hi there fellow Open Educators! So... the Open Education Working Group hasn't met for a while... in fact... we have not had an official group meeting since the pandemic started! Yikes... but we are meeting next week! And we hope you can join us! Thursday, February 25, 12:30 - 13:30. Everyone is welcome. Items on the Agenda: 1. Open Ed Week events 2. Rebranding Open BCIT & new website 3. Annual report 4. WG relationship to EdCo 5. Open ed grants update 6. Open BCIT projects 7. Sustainability of Open at BCIT Join Zoom Meeting https://bcit.zoom.us/j/86819409772?pwd=WjA3NlhhTDdhNTJiMktpMUdoNG02Zz09 Meeting ID: 868 1940 9772 Password: 700095 So, mark your calendars, and wehope to see some of you in the zoom room! 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(a)bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos(a)bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc Education for a Complex World Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Webinar about Copyright
by Rosario Passos 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Hi there fellow Open Educators, This webinar may be of interest to some of you: CARL Webinar : Implementing the CARL Copyright OER for University Instructors and Staff on campus Date: February 25, 2021 Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm ET Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_durbBze3SdmxJEVN0KkGJw<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.z…> In December 2020, CARL released the Copyright Open Educational Resource for University Instructors and Staff. This self-directed course is currently being adapted for use at a number of universities across Canada. Join four of the working group members that helped build this course - Stephanie Orfano (University of Toronto), Mark Swartz (Queen’s University), Christina Winter (University of Regina) and Rowena Johnson (University of Calgary) - for an hour-long panel discussion related to how each university is approaching course implementation at their institutions. The discussion will include: tools and techniques institutions are using to implement the course, approaches for different learning management systems (Brightspace, Canvas, Moodle), and possible strategies for encouraging course completion. ------------------------------ Webinaire de l’ABRC : Mise en œuvre de la REL sur le droit d’auteur de l’ABRC à l’intention du corps professoral et du personnel des universités Date : 25 février 2021 Heure : 15h à 16h (heure de l'Est) Inscrivez-vous ici : https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_durbBze3SdmxJEVN0KkGJw<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.z…> En décembre 2020, l'ABRC a publié la Ressource éducative libre sur le droit d’auteur de l’ABRC à l’intention du corps professoral et du personnel des universités. Ce cours autodidacte est en cours d'être adapté pour être utilisé dans un certain nombre d'universités à travers le Canada. Joignez-vous à cette discussion de 60 minutes avec quatre membres du groupe de travail qui ont contribués à l'élaboration de ce cours - Stephanie Orfano (Université de Toronto), Mark Swartz (Université Queen's), Christina Winter (Université de Regina) et Rowena Johnson (Université de Calgary) - sur la façon dont chaque université aborde la mise en œuvre du cours dans son établissement. La discussion portera notamment sur les outils et les techniques que les établissements utilisent pour mettre en œuvre le cours, les approches des différents systèmes de gestion de l'apprentissage (Brightspace, Canvas, Moodle) et les stratégies possibles pour encourager l'achèvement des cours. Katherine McColgan, CAE Manager, Administration and Programs Directrice, administration et programmes [cked_Colour_S-email-small] Canadian Association of Research Libraries Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada 309 rue Cooper Street, Suite 203 Ottawa Ontario K2P 0G5 T 613.867.7789 E katherine.mccolgan(a)carl-abrc.ca<mailto:katherine.mccolgan(a)carl-abrc.ca> W www.carl-abrc.ca<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carl-a…> [tter-email] @kdmccolgan [tter-email] @carlabrc

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2021 Pressbooks H5P OER Development grant - Deadline Feb 5
by Rosario Passos 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Hi there fellow Open Eductaors, Just a reminder that the call for proposals for the 2021 Pressbooks H5P OER Development grant<https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/2021-pressbooks-h5p-oer-deve…> closes Feb 5. You might be interested in putting in a proposal to develop some H5P objects for the Open Textbook Collection 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(a)bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos(a)bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc Education for a Complex World Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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FW: IoT Use Cases and Technologies - new in the BC collection
by Rosario Passos 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Hello fellow Open Educators, Please join me in congratulating John Dian and Reza Vahidnia! The open textbook they authored with the support of an Open Education Grant has been added to the BC Open Textbook Collection! IoT Use Cases and Technologies<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.bcca…> by F. John Dian, Reza Vahidnia Excellent work!! Way to go School of Energy! 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(a)bcit.ca<mailto:rosario_passos(a)bcit.ca> www.bcit.ca/ltc Education for a Complex World Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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