Hi there fellow Open Educators at BCIT! The Open Education working group has bene working diligently to offer a series of workshops in February, leading up to open Education week at the beginning of March. We hope you help us promote these workshops widely across your networks - see attached poster - and we also hope to see some of you at the events. The first one is coming up soon on February 13: Workshop 1: Openly Licensed Learning Materials What does "openly licensed" mean, and how can it apply to your work? Join us for an introductory talk on open licenses and open learning materials.This workshop will cover: * Which materials can be openly licensed, including textbooks, multimedia, and more * How to find and use open license materials * An introduction to Creative Commons licenses, and how they relate to Open Education When: February 13, 11:30-12:20 Where: Library (SE14), room 303 To register: email Sally_McKinstry(a)bcit.ca or sbaxter(a)bcit.ca 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