Adopting Open Textbooks Online Workshop
Note: This is not an active course. The course finished on February 6, 2015. The …
AskAway: Learning More about Outcomes
In September 2013, the AskAway exit survey was redesigned to capture data about how AskAway …
New Open Textbook! Database Design-2nd Edition
We are very happy to announce the release of a new open textbook by post-secondary …
New Open Textbook! Introduction to Psychology-1st Canadian Edition
We are very happy to announce the release of a new open textbook, with significant …
ETUG fall workshop “unconference” model encourages collaboration and creativity
Attendees at the annual ETUG fall workshop November 13 will experience a unique conference format …
The “open” in MOOCs
I was part of a debate on the value of MOOCs for higher education during UBC’s Open Access Week, on Oct. 29, 2014. Here is the description of the event and speaker bios, from the Open UBC 2014 website (not sure how long the link is going to be active, so copied the description here). […]
Presentation on Open Leadership for OCLMOOC
In October of 2014 I was invited to give a short presentation on open leadership to OCLMOOC, an open online course for Alberta educators. I was at first unsure what I would say, as I thought perhaps “open leadership” was some category or theory of leadership I had never heard of but was being asked […]
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 […]