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The Impact of Open Practices
At the spring meeting of University College and Institute Professional Developers (UCIPD) hosted by University of Victoria’s Learning and Teaching Centre, Karen Belfer shared a story that exemplifies...
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[T.E.L.L. May] Case Studies in Innovative Technology Use
What: 1-hour “Lunch n’ Learn” webinar When: Tuesday, May 29 at noon (PST) | see your time zone Who: Valia Spiliotopoulos, Patric Lougheed, and Scott Gerrity What: The development team involved in the...
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[MOOC] The Impact on Teachers of Open Educational Resources and Practice
This week’s invited guest for the First Steps into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education MOOC is Dave White from University of Oxford. He will be speaking about the impact on teachers of open...
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More Open
At last year’s ETUG Spring Workshop 2011 “Open4Learning” we explored the theme of what open means to us as educators and learners. Alan Levine shared a selection of “Amazing Stories of Openness” and...
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Open Education 2012 in Vancouver, BC – Don’t miss Early Bird Registration!
OpenEd12, the ninth annual Open Education Conference, will frame the conversation about the future of open education. Come be part of the discussion – we need your energy, brains, passion, and...
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OER Forum in Vancouver, October 18, 2012
BCcampus is hosting a working session on Open Educational Resources (OER) for senior post-secondary institution representatives in Vancouver on the afternoon of October 18, 2012. The objectives of...
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Webinar by Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
On Tuesday October 9 at 1:00pm EST (10:00am PST), the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources is hosting a webinar presenting three faculty development models for encouraging the...
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Open Textbook Workshops
What and Where? A one-day workshop for EVERYBODY interested in open textbooks. There are two locations as well as options for online participation: Thompson Rivers University, TRUSU Board Room, Student...
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Nominations are in for Open Textbooks subcommittee
We were delighted to receive 41 nominations for the Open Textbook Project Sub-Committee from across the B.C. post-secondary sector. Many sectors of the system were represented in those nominations, now...
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How Students Can Advocate for Open Textbooks
As a student at Vancouver Island University, Katelyn McDougall knows about the stress of rising textbook costs. As a newly appointed member of the BCcampus open textbook subcommittee, she’s doing...
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Open Textbook Project Q&A Session
BCcampus is contributing to the development of an open future for teaching practices and educational resources. We are pleased to announce the first phase of the B.C. Open Textbook Program’s Call for...
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Open content licensing for educators (OCL4Ed)
What and When? Another free professional development op [...]
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If you are modifying an open textbook, you may want to find additional resources to use in your textbook. Ideally, content licensed with a CC-BY license provides the most flexibility for reuse, so we...
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One Heck of a Hackfest, I’d Say
Last Friday (May 9th) a dozen librarians gathered for a hackfest at SFU Harbour Centre. Our goal: to work collectively for the day on an OER project we were keen to get done. Participants were a mix...
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Recently I have found myself at many meetings and events (e.g., the Open Textbook summit) centered on Open Education. Despite my non-representativeness due to self-selection, I am often called upon at...
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The Great Psychology Testbank Sprint
Well, we did it. Seventeen psychology faculty from six post-secondary institutions in British Columbia came together on July 18 & 19 and worked intensively for two days to create a testbank...
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The Fellowship of the Open
Over the past year I have had the pleasure of working with the fine folk at BCcampus a fair bit – first as a reviewer of two open textbooks, then as an adopter of three, adapter of two, organizer of an...
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Later this week Farhad Dastur and I will present at a symposium at the Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology in Atlanta, organized by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Our symposium...
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A harvest of good things from BCOER
This past Spring BCOER held a hackfest and today we are delighted to share a few good things that have come as a result of some of the hardwork done in May. We worked on key ideas for a poster to use...
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