BCcampus Newsletter: September 13, 2019
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FLO-Design is back!
Join us September 23 - October 18th for FLO - Design! A complementary course to FLO-Fundamentals, which supports educators to learn how to facilitate learning in asynchronous environments.
FLO-Design is asynchronous (learn when it works for you!) with some synchronous elements (learning together!) focused on important elements of educational design and the intentional steps to developing effective learning environments. Register today!
Calls and Grants
Funding Opportunities
BCcampus Learning Access Program for Educators (LAP-E) supports applicants to allow them to participate and share their ideas as well as learn from others. BCcampus aims to provide a diverse set of voices to its events and will balance regional participation with budget limitations.
The LAP-E assists with registration fees as well as travel, per diem, and accommodation costs. We are currently accepting applications for the following events:
News
Announcing BCcampus’ 2019 Open Education Sustainability Grant RecipientsIn 2019, BCcampus will continue to advance the province’s open and affordable education vision by working closely with B.C.’s post-secondary institutions to not only continue to build the B.C. Open Textbook Collection, but allow colleges, institutes and universities to take the next step toward campus-based open education sustainability by integrating these practices and methods of teaching and learning into their current systems. Read more... Pressbooks Guide: Import Options for Pressbooks ContentThree methods of importing content that is already in Pressbooks. Read more... |
Pressbooks Guide: Plugin FeaturesPlugins are software components that can be added to an existing computer program, such as Pressbooks, in order to provide additional features. Read more... $3.26M pledged to OER to enable student savings throughout the provinceThis welcome infusion of financial support enables BCcampus to continue developing and distributing Open Educational Resources, including open textbooks, that save students money while providing significant learning value. Read more... |
Open Education Updates
Looking for students to submit short smartphone recordings on their open education views. All entries will be compiled into one video and shown at the OE Global Conference 2019 in Milan, Italy. Deadline: September 30, 2019. For details, see OE Global Conference on the BCcampus Events page.
New books added to the B.C. Open Textbook Collection
- New ABE open textbook, published by BCcampus: Composition and Literature: A Handbook and Anthology
- Composition and Literature: A Handbook and Anthology
- EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology & Handbook for College Writers
- New edition: forall x: An Introduction to Formal Logic - Fall 2019 Edition (Calgary) - This will be replacing the 2018 edition, scheduled removal Feb 1, 2020
- College Mathematics for Everyday Life
Open Ed updates
- Rajiv Jhangiani, of KPU, has created slide decks to accompany the open textbooks Principles of Social Psychology, 1st International edition and Principles of Social Psychology, now posted by each as an ancillary resource.
For the most current open education information, take a look at these continuously updated directories:
- Information Directory - research, articles, blogs, books related to open education in Canada, the U.S., Global North, and Global South regions
- Post-Secondary Directory - An inventory of all things open for each post-secondary institution in B.C., and every province and territory in Canada
The following chapters in the OER by Discipline Directory have been updated:
- Arabic
- Book/Textbook/Journal Collections and Publishers
- English Language Learning (ELL)
- General OER Repositories
- Pedagogy and Instructional Design
- Psychology
We are looking for Subject Matter Experts (SME) from B.C. or other parts of Canada to review textbooks being considered for the B.C. Open Textbook Collection. See the list of Books open for review by Canadian faculty. Contact bookreviews@bccampus.ca if you are interested in providing an SME review.
Help us identify the gaps
Contact opentext@bccampus.ca if you would like to see open textbooks made available for specific subject areas in the 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.
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