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BCcampus OpenEd: NEW - Open Education Resource Sustainability Grant for Institutions
by Lauri Aesoph 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

Dear Colleagues, BCcampus Open Education has just posted a NEW grant opportunity: the Open Education Sustainability Grant for Institutions<https://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-proposals/open-education-sustainability-g…>. This call for proposals is for institutional open education working groups in British Columbia to provide small open educational grants, funded by BCcampus and matched by the institution, in order to improve the sustainability of open education. The Open Education Resource Sustainability Grant for Institutions may also be used for, but is not limited to, workshops, training, and institutional support for OER and open education infrastructure. The proposal deadline is August 22nd. If you have any questions regarding this call, please email opentext(a)bccampus.ca Regards, Lauri Aesoph Manager, Open Education [https://bccampus.ca/files/2018/10/dotted-line.jpg] Cell: 250-893-0258 • Email: laesoph(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:laesoph(a)bccampus.ca> Twitter: @lauriaesoph<https://twitter.com/lauriaesoph> • Skype: lauri.aesoph • LinkedIn: lauri.aesoph<https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauri.aesoph/> BCcampus.ca<https://bccampus.ca/> • @BCcampus<https://twitter.com/BCcampus> • #BCcampus<https://twitter.com/hashtag/BCcampus?src=hash> I acknowledge that the land on which I work and live is the traditional territory of the Lkwungen-speaking people.

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BCcampus Open Education updates (June 19, 2019)
by Lauri Aesoph 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

Hello Everyone, Here are the latest updates from BCcampus Open Education. New book [ https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=d2… | Intermediate Algebra (OpenStax) ] OpenEd updates To improve the discoverability of open textbooks in the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/ | B.C. Open Textbook Collection ] , we have updated our collection's subject categories to be more comprehensive. This means a number of new categories and subcategories that better reflect the structure and content of the collection. We welcome you to explore the new categories and send us any feedback that you have. And we send a big thank you to the BCOEL who provided us with resources, guidance, and feedback. Recent updates to the OER by Discipline Directory * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/general-oer-repositories/ | General OER Repositories ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/course-collections/ | Course Collections ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/business-general/ | Business - General ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/economics/ | Economics ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/fine-arts-general/ | Fine Arts - General ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/french/ | French ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/music/ | Music ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/statistics/ | Statistics ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/theatre/ | Theatre ] We are looking for Subject Matter Experts (SME) from B.C. or other parts of Canada to review textbooks being considered for the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/ | B.C. Open Textbook Collection. ] Contact bookreviews(a)bccampus.ca if you are interested. Help us identify the gaps Contact opentext(a)bccampus.ca if you would like to see open textbooks made available for specific subject areas in the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/ | B.C. Open Textbook Collection ] . In particular, we'd like to hear of topics in these areas: business, early childhood education (ECE), health, STEM (science, technology, engineering, math), and trades. Best regards, The BCcampus Open Ed team Lauri Aesoph Manager, Open Education BC campus | Learning.Doing.Leading. Cell: 250-893-0258 • Email: [ mailto:laesoph(a)bccampus.ca | laesoph(a)bccampus.ca ] Twitter: [ https://twitter.com/lauriaesoph | @lauriaesoph ] • Skype: lauri.aesoph • LinkedIn: [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauri.aesoph/ | lauri.aesoph ] [ https://bccampus.ca/ | BCcampus.ca ] • [ https://twitter.com/BCcampus | @BCcampus ] • [ https://twitter.com/hashtag/BCcampus?src=hash | #BCcampus ] I acknowledge that the land on which I work and live is the traditional territory of the Lkwungen-speaking people.

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Invitation to join the Creative Commons Open Education platform
by Rajiv Jhangiani 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

Hello everyone, Many of you are familiar with Creative Commons licenses<https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-examples/>, which provide the legal mechanism for creating and sharing open educational resources. Two years ago Creative Commons launched an open education platform, which brings together people from around the world interested in open education in order to stay abreast of new developments, explore opportunities to collaborate, and contribute to global perspectives on open education to strengthen advocacy worldwide. The platform has an email list, a Slack channel, and optional monthly meetings. If you are interested in joining the platform, please visit: https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-pl… Cheers, Rajiv

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Recording of Libretexts webinar
by Rajiv Jhangiani 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

Good morning everyone, Here is a link to a recording of yesterday’s webinar with Dr. Delmar Larsen about the Libretexts platform: https://media.kpu.ca/media/Webinar+recordingA+Using+the+LibreTexts+to+Creat… Cheers, Rajiv

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Congratulations to Alena Buis on receiving an OER Research Fellowship
by Rajiv Jhangiani 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

Dear colleagues, Two months ago I shared information about how to apply for the international OER Research Fellowship program coordinated out of Brigham Young University. Today it is my pleasure to inform you that Dr. Alena Buis, our colleague from Art History/Fine Arts, has been selected to be an 2019-2020 OER Research Fellow. Please join me in congratulating Alena! Cheers, Rajiv From: Rajiv Jhangiani <rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca> Date: Friday, April 19, 2019 at 7:34 AM To: KPU Open Education listserv <openkpu(a)mail.bccampus.ca> Subject: External Opportunity: Apply to be an OER Research Fellow (deadline May 15) Dear colleagues, The US-based Open Education Group (http://openedgroup.org/) is an interdisciplinary research group that supports and conducts original, rigorous, empirical research on the impact of OER adoption on a range of educational outcomes. They have just put out their latest call for OER Research Fellows; see: https://www.formpl.us/form/267776001 Both Farhad Dastur and I have benefited from terms as OER Research Fellows and I would be happy to discuss this opportunity with you and serve as a reference. More information about the program: Successful candidates will publish papers relating to the educational outcomes that take place when OER and/or open pedagogy are substituted for traditional learning materials and approaches. OER Research Fellows will receive funding to attend two conferences, one of which will be the Open Education Conference in Phoenix, AZ, October 30 - Nov. 1, 2019. The second conference will be the 2020 OpenEd conference (date and place to be determined). In addition, Fellows will receive mentoring in OER research and guidance in identifying, researching, and writing specific OER projects. Small stipends will be made available to OER Research Fellows who successfully complete the program; the overall funding support for Fellows will be approximately $5,000 (including conference costs and stipend). Thank you, Rajiv [logo gif] Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. Associate Vice Provost, Open Education Kwantlen Polytechnic University t 604.599.3253 e rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca> www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open> This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, please destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies. At KPU, we work, study, and live 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.

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BCcampus Open Education updates and news (June 5, 2019)
by Lauri Aesoph 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

Hello Everyone, Here are the latest updates from BCcampus Open Education. OpenEd updates See the new [ https://open.bccampus.ca/projects-and-grants/current-opened-projects/ | Adult Basic Education (ABE) projects ] , funded by BCcampus, currently in progress. New open research Earle, S. (2019). What students like and dislike about open textbooks. BCcampus Open Education Research Fellows Report. * A copy of the research can be found under "Open Textbooks" in the [ https://opentextbc.ca/openedinfo/chapter/canada/ | Canada section of Research and reports ] in the [ https://opentextbc.ca/openedinfo/ | Information Directory ] . For more information see the March 12, 2019 BCcampus blog: [ https://bccampus.ca/2019/03/12/what-students-like-and-dislike-about-open-ed… | What students like (and dislike) about open educational resources ] . Updated support resources * The OER by Discipline Guide has been renamed [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/ | OER by Discipline Directory ] to better reflect its purpose as a reference tool. * The [ https://opentextbc.ca/accessibilitytoolkit/ | Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition ] now includes recordings and PowerPoint slides from the [ https://opentextbc.ca/accessibilitytoolkit/back-matter/inclusive-design-web… | Inclusive Design Webinar Series in Appendix C ] . * The following new categories have been added to the [ https://opentextbc.ca/openedinfo/ | Information Directory ] : * Inclusive Access (IA) * Reading: Print vs. Screens Recent updates to the OER by Discipline Directory * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/general-oer-repositories/ | General OER Repositories ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/astronomy/ | Astronomy ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/earth-and-ocean-sciences-genera… | Earth and Ocean Sciences - General ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/english/ | English and Writing ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/materials/ | Materials ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/philosophy/ | Philosophy ] * [ https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/physics/ | Physics ] We are looking for Subject Matter Experts (SME) from B.C. or other parts of Canada to review textbooks being considered for the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/ | B.C. Open Textbook Collection ] Contact bookreviews(a)bccampus.ca if you are interested. Help us identify the gaps Contact opentext(a)bccampus.ca if you would like to see open textbooks made available for specific subject areas in the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/ | B.C. Open Textbook Collection ] . In particular, we'd like to hear of topics in these areas: business, early childhood education (ECE), health, STEM (science, technology, engineering, math), and trades. Best regards, The BCcampus Open Ed team Lauri Aesoph Manager, Open Education BC campus | Learning.Doing.Leading. Cell: [ tel:250-580-6949 | 250-893-0258 ] • Email: [ mailto:laesoph(a)bccampus.ca | laesoph(a)bccampus.ca ] Twitter: [ https://twitter.com/lauriaesoph | @lauriaesoph ] • Skype: lauri.aesoph • LinkedIn: [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauri.aesoph/ | lauri.aesoph ] [ https://bccampus.ca/ | BCcampus.ca ] • [ https://twitter.com/BCcampus | @BCcampus ] • [ https://twitter.com/hashtag/BCcampus?src=hash | #BCcampus ] I acknowledge that the land on which I work and live is the traditional territory of the Lkwungen-speaking people.

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Libretexts webinar on Tuesday, June 11 at 10am
by Rajiv Jhangiani 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

Dear colleagues, Libretexts<https://libretexts.org/index.html> is a wiki-based alternative to open textbooks. Founded by Dr. Delmar Larsen, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Davis, this non-profit project originated in Chemistry (when it was called ChemWiki) but has since grown (with the help of US federal funding) to encompass a variety of STEM, Social Science, and other disciplines. Libretexts is a hyperlibrary that has imported all of the available open textbooks (including the OpenStax open textbooks currently used in Math and Physics). Unlike Wikipedia, not anyone can edit Libretexts (there is faculty oversight), which is why institutions such as the U of Michigan, U of Kansas, California State U and others use Libretextsas a customized open textbook for many of their Science courses. Beyond text, Libretexts embeds multimedia (e.g., video), dynamic figures, Jupyter notebooks, Hypothes.is<http://Hypothes.is> annotations, and supports print on demand. (See: https://libretexts.org/advanced.html) Instructors who use Libretexts for their required course readings can also avail of learning analytics that can shed insight a range of interesting behaviours, such as the percentage of your students who have accessed the required readings for the first time only 24 hours prior to the exam (i.e. cramming). Delmar has kindly offered to provide a webinar for our faculty who are interested in learning more about this approach to OER (note that there is no fee associated with using Libretexts for either students or KPU). The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday June 11 at 10-11am. For those unable to make that time, the webinar will be recorded and made available online. If you are interested in attending this webinar please let me know by replying to this email. Thank you, Rajiv [logo gif] Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. Associate Vice Provost, Open Education Kwantlen Polytechnic University t 604.599.3253 e rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca> www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open> This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, please destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies. At KPU, we work, study, and live 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.

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Congratulations to Arley Cruthers, recipient of the BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education
by Rajiv Jhangiani 03 Jun '19

03 Jun '19

Dear colleagues, I am absolutely thrilled to share the news that our wonderful colleague Arley Cruthers is the latest recipient of the BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education!

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