B.C. Open Education Updates
34 OpenEd in 2020
January
Open Ed Blogs and Calls
- Award for Excellence in Open Education: Brenda Smith
- Call for Proposals: Marketing OER
- Hard-back OpenStax books come to Canada (update)
Related Blogs
New books in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection
- Creating Online Learning Experiences
- Communication Beginnings
- Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit
- Intermediate General and Applied Science Course (from the ABE OER/ZTC grant)
- Introduction to Oceanography
- Neuroscience: Canadian 1st Edition
- Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative
- Understanding Document Accessibility
B.C. collection updates
- A new sub-category called “Ocean Studies” has been added to “Earth and Ocean Sciences”
- The Communication/Writing sub category “Creative Non-Fiction” has been labelled “Creative Writing
New reviews in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection
- Composition and Literature: A Handbook and Anthology
- Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
- Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy
Support resources update
- Third-Party Plugins (new chapter in the Pressbooks Guide)
- New PPT slides posted for Financial Empowerment
New from B.C.
- Living Well with Dementia (KPU) has been updated with Living life with dementia
Canadian news
BCcampus OpenEd housekeeping
- BCcampus’s two Pressbooks instances will be upgraded from 7am-10am on Jan 23. Here is the list of updates and bug fixes that will be addressed.
- Cambria College has been added to the Institution drop-down menu on the Adoption Form.
ICYMI
February
Open Ed Blogs and Calls
New books in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection
B.C. collection updates
- New sub-category for Computer Science… “Computer Science – General“
New reviews in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection
- BC Reads – Reader 2 (Langara College)
- BC Reads – Reader 5 (Douglas College)
- Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies (Capilano University)
- Introductory Statistics, OpenStax (Thompson Rivers University)
- Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know (College of North Caledonia)
- Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence (Langara College)
Print-on-Demand Survey
- The B.C. post-secondary community is invited to complete a survey about print-on-demand services for open textbooks. This information will be used to complete the Print-on-Demand Guide, about creating printed, bound copies of open textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection. This guide is an open creation, defined as an in-progress work, public during development.
ICYMI
- Congratulations to McMaster University Library on the recent publication of OER by Discipline Guide: McMaster University, an adaptation of the BCcampus OER by Discipline Directory.
March
The COVID-19 pandemic shut down BCcampus offices on March 16, 2020.
Open Ed Blogs and Calls
- Award for Excellence in Open Education: Mary Shier