OpenEd in 2020

Edited by Lauri Aesoph

B.C. Open Education Updates

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Updates and news regarding open education in B.C. for 2020 as posted in the BCcampus newsletter.

January

Open Ed Blogs and Calls

Related Blogs

An Education in Electronic Health Records

New books in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

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

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

Indigenization as inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonization: navigating the different visions for indigenizing the Canadian Academy.

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

New data shows continued decline in student spending on college course materials.

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

Resources to help shift online during COVID-19

B.C. Open Textbook Collection updates

Adoptions in B.C.

Open Textbooks in Use at Douglas College for Winter 2020

Ancillary resources

From BCIT: Astronomy (OpenStax) Worksheets and Solutions adapted by James Brewer for the Astronomy (OpenStax) textbook

New reviews in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Thank you Langara College for contributing these reviews.

New from B.C.

BCIT: Animal Dissection Images Library by Sabrina Cornish & Carol Wenzel
CNC: Key Concepts of Intermediate Level Math by Meizhong Wang

Open education research

RRU and VIU: Content is king: An analysis of how the Twitter discourse surrounding open education unfolded from 2009 to 2016.

Support resources update

The Pressbooks Guide has undergone a major update in response to the January 23rd upgrade to the BCcampus Pressbooks instance.

New open textbooks from eCampusOntario

ICYMI

Congratulations to our Alberta colleagues for setting up Open Education Alberta, a new no-fee OER publishing service.

April

Open Ed Blogs

New books in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

New reviews in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Fundamentals of Business – Canadian Edition (Yorkville University)
Principles of Marketing (Yorkville University)
Vital Sign Measurement from Across the Lifespan – 1st Canadian Edition (TRU)

New in the OER by Discipline Directory

New entries for the OER by Discipline Directory can be found in these subject areas:

New from B.C.

Okanagan College prof leads the way in developing new open educational resources – April 15, 2020 (Okanagan College News)
B.C. Post-Secondary Education System News (BCCAT)

Support resources updates

New in the Information Directory

Appendix – Videos, webinars, podcasts
COVID-19: Open Source projects
COVID-19 Teaching and learning online videos (archived)

Pressbooks Guide update

The Pressbooks Guide has been updated with relevant content from the Pressbooks User Guide. New chapters include:

Import from WordPress (chapter archived)
Formatting Tips and Problems
Catalogues
Export Content into an LMS Course

ICYMI

Research by BCcampus’ Dr. Tannis Morgan released this week in Open Praxis: Instructional Designers and Open Education Practices: Negotiating the Gap Between Intentional and Operational Agency

May

Open Ed Blogs and Calls

New reviews in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC (Yorkville University)
Business Math: A Step-by-Step Handbook (Yorkville University)
Active Calculus Multivariable (BCIT)

We are looking for Canadian subject-matter experts to complete a short review of the following open textbooks. Interested faculty can contact bookreviews@bccampus.ca.

Open education research

Thompson Rivers University: Open Educational Practices Advocacy: The Instructional Designer Experience

Open education resources

Kwantlen Polytechnic University: Getting to Know Your International Students

Support resources updates

NEW: Boise State Pressbooks (in Appendix B: Pressbooks Catalogues of the Pressbooks Guide)

New from B.C.

In light of the financial constraints being faced by B.C.’s post-secondary institutions during the current pandemic, BCcampus has decided to remove the requirement that applicants to the Open Education Foundation Grant for Institutions and the Sustainability Grant for Institutions must secure matching funds from their institutions equal to the grant total.

ICYMI

“That’ll be $0, please”: Art History forgoes textbooks, embraces open education

June

Open Ed Blogs and Calls

New books in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Books archived from the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Basics of Fluid Mechanics
Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective
Brief Calculus
Concept Development Studies in Chemistry

The above archived books have been added to the OER by Discipline Directory.

New reviews in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students (TRU)
Principles of Microeconomics (UVic) (Yorkville University)
Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners (Capilano University)
Concepts of Biology – 1st Canadian Edition (Thompson Rivers University)
Canadian History: Post-Confederation (Northern Lights College)
Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence (Thompsons River University)
Understanding Media and Culture (Capilano University)

Open education research

Framing open educational practices from a social justice perspective: including contributing KPU author Rajiv Jhangiani

Support resources updates

Fair dealing video link (University of Alberta Libraries) added to Fair Dealing and Fair Use chapter in the Self-Publishing Guide

Pressbooks Updates

For details see Pressbooks Updates

ICYMI

Open Langara is offering three $1,500 grants to faculty who are interested in adapting or creating open educational resources (OER) or incorporating open educational practices (OEP) into their teaching. Learn more.
The Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE) is a new one-year flexible and blended program jointly presented by the UBC Open Working Group, the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology and UBC Library. The program will help you develop foundational knowledge of Open Scholarship, Open Education and Open Research. Learn more about POSE here.
In addition to providing the top five adopting institutions by number of open textbook adoptions, statistics now also include the top five adopting institutions by student savings. See them here.

July

Open Ed Blogs

New books in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Books to be archived from the B.C. Open Textbook Collection on October 1, 2020

Psychology, replaced with Psychology 2e
Prealgebra, replaced with Prealgebra 2e
Elementary Algebra, replaced with Elementary Algebra 2e
Intermediate Algebra, replaced with Intermediate Algebra 2e

New reviews in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Research Methods in Psychology – 2nd Canadian Edition (Thompson Rivers University)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit (Thompson Rivers University)
Introductory Statistics, Saylor (Yorkville University)

New in the OER by Discipline Directory

Several new entries added to the French section of Non-English OER from the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec

Support resources updates

Adoption Guide – 2nd Edition has a new chapter: Responses to Common Concerns

New from B.C.

Learn more about UDL in Universal Design for Learning: A Practical Guide by Junsong Zhang (JIBC) and Dr. Seanna Takacs (KPU)
In 2020 the Langara Library in partnership with Open Langara and the Langara Institutional Repository (The LaIR) introduce the Langara Open Student Scholar Prize. This prize celebrates exemplary work being done by Langara students and offers them the opportunity to share their work in an Open Access format. Learn more.

New in Canada

CAUL-CBUA To Launch Regional Open Educational Resource (OER) Repository – July 15, 2020 (CAUL-CBUA News)

ICYMI

The Print-on-Demand Guide provides an overview for post-secondary institutions interested in offering on-demand and pre-order printing services for open textbooks and other OER. See the guide here.

August

Open Ed Blogs

BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education: Sally Vinden

Open education resources

Building a Medical Terminology Foundation (published by eCampusOntario)

Support resources updates

COVID-19 Educational Resources (archived)
COVID-19: Teaching and Learning Online – Videos (archived)
COVID-19: OER for Online Teaching (archived)
Appendix: COVID-19 News and Updates
Appendix: Teaching Online – Help and Resources

September

Open Ed Blogs and Calls

New books in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

New reviews in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Strategies for Academic Success (Langara College)
Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners (Vancouver Premier College)

New in the OER by Discipline Directory

International Relations under “Social Sciences”
Meteorology under “Earth and Ocean Sciences”
Pathology under “Health, Medical, and Social Work”
Histology under “Science”

Open education research

Support resources updates

The Table chapter of the Accessibility Toolkit has been updated with information about how merged table cells can be accessible if used properly

New from B.C.

College of the Rockies instructor collaborates on open education resource project: Geography laboratory manual available free to students across the province this fall – September 2, 2020, College of the Rockies (archived)
Feminist Adult Educators’ Guide to Aesthetic, Creative and Disruptive Strategies in Museums and Community. (UVic)
Let’s Read French Books (UBC)
The Mission, the Message, and the Medium: Science and Risk Communication in a Complex World (UBC)
Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical Geography, First British Columbia Edition (beta version – UBC)

New in Canada

Re-opening colleges and universities: Fall semester plans – September 1, 2020, Canadian Association of University Teachers
Chemistry and the Environment: A Chemistry Perspective for discussion of Environmental Issues (University of Winnipeg)

ICYMI

Okanagan College has a new Open Ed Key Contact: Greg Hutton, Collections & Cataloguing Librarian, ghutton@okanagan.bc.ca
An Open Letter to UBC – September 8, 2020 (Open UBC)

October

Open Ed Blogs

New books in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Book to be archived from the B.C. Open Textbook Collection on February 1, 2021

Canadian History: Post-Confederation – 1st Edition

New reviews in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Organizational Behavior (OpenStax) (Fairleigh Dickinson University)

New in the OER by Discipline Directory

Brass Techniques and Pedagogy
A Guide to Physical Activity
Integrated and Open Interpreter Education
Intermediate Microeconomics with Excel – 2020 updated
Interpreting Love Narratives in East Asian Literature and Film
Linguistics for Teachers of English
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Cornell Open
StockSnap.io (CC0)
Speech Therapy
Second Language Research & Practice (Liberal Arts/Language Learning)
Nahuatlahtolli (Liberal Arts/Language Learning)
Problem Solving in Teams and Groups (Business/Management)
Oxford Open Materials Science (Engineering/Materials Science)
Open Oxford Immunology (Health/Immunology)
Global Studies Quarterly (Social Sciences/International Relations)

New from B.C.

Narratives of Memory, Migration, and Xenophobia in the European Union and Canada by Helga Hallgrimsdottier, Helga Thorson (Eds.)
Technical Writing Essentials: Introduction to Professional Communications in the Technical Fields by Suzan Last
Open Educational Resources Grant Program (UBCO)
Welcome to new NLC Open Ed contact, Shari Harrison. For more information see the Northern Lights College page in the Post-Secondary Directory.

New in Canada

Open Art Histories: A platform for art, art history, visual art, communication, and museum studies teachers and instructors in Canada.

ICYMI

Openly-licensed exam proctoring systems

November

Open Ed Blogs

New books in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

New reviews in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Introduction to Psychology – 1st Canadian Edition (TRU)

New in the OER by Discipline Directory

New Sections for the OER by Discipline Directory

Multi-language versions of Geology textbook Groundwater

Support resources updates

The label “ancillary resources” has been changed to “supplementary materials” in BCcampus directories, guides, and toolkits
New chapter in the Working Group Guide: Kanban and Project Management