Four ways librarians are essential to the future of open textbooks and OER
When the Open Textbook Project started two years ago, librarians were identified as one of …
UNBC librarians inoculate novice academics against predatory publishers
Under the guise of open access, predatory publishers are preying on naïve graduate students, offering …
Open education in Philosophy
Right now I’m working on a chapter for an anthology on teaching philosophy; it is a kind of summary and expansion of a presentation I did for the American Association of Philosophy Teachers meeting last July, in Minnesota (see here for my blog post about this presentation). The anthology contains papers about presentations at the […]
Pressbooks plugin developed by BCcampus enables truly open textbook publishing
BCcampus has around 70 open textbooks in its collection, and more are being added each …
Open Access Week: Equipping the online learning community with open-access tools
Open Access workshops led by BCcampus provide educators across the province an opportunity to experience …
Celebrating Open Access Week with new open textbooks
This fall we have added new textbooks in Geography, Marketing, English, Psychology, and Sociology to …
BCcampus staffers talking textbooks at Open Access Week events
Open Access Week, a global event, is an opportunity for the academic and research community …
A harvest of good things from BCOER
This past Spring BCOER held a hackfest and today we are delighted to share a …
Celebrate Open Access Week!
These events have been shared by members of BCOER. They are taking place at various …
Happy Birthday Open Textbook Project/My Adventures Adapting a Chemistry Textbook
This is probably a very long overdue blog post, but as I am currently procrastinating from/avoiding the giant pile of marking on my desk I thought I should put it out there in the blog-o-verse. Today is the second … Continue reading →