Adopting Open Textbooks Online Workshop
Note: This is not an active course. The course finished on February 6, 2015. The …
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 …
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). […]
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 …
Celebrating Open Access Week with new open textbooks
This fall we have added new textbooks in Geography, Marketing, English, Psychology, and Sociology to …
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 →
New Open Textbook! English Literature: Victorians and Moderns
We are very happy to announce the release of a new open textbook, with significant …
OER for Psychology
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 is titled “Opening up psychology: Adopting open textbooks, open pedagogy, and an open philosophy in the classroom.” The following is a list(…)
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 open test bank sprint, and a co-presenter at professional development workshops at Capilano University and(…)