Introductory Chemistry and Principles of Social Psychology: 2 new Open Textbooks
We are very happy to announce the release of two new open textbooks, both with …
Justice Institute “goes big” in adopting OER and open textbooks
Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) students taking some introductory courses no longer have to …
Geography and Strategic Management: 2 new open textbooks
We are very happy to announce the release of two new open textbooks, both with …
Premier’s Awards
The BC Open Textbook Project was a regional finalist for a British Columbia Premier’s Award for …
Open Textbook Project regional finalist for BC Premier’s Award
The BC Open Textbook Project was a regional finalist for a British Columbia Premier’s Award …
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 designed to accompany open textbooks for introductory psychology. As I have previously written about, the absence of ancillary materials (a testbank most of all) presents(…)
1000 questions in 2 days
The summer of 2014 is turning into the Summer of Sprint’s at BCcampus. It started …
Textbooks unavailable on Thursday, July 17th
On Thursday, July 17th, BCcampus will be upgrading a the database that contains the open …
Throwback Thursday: Mary Burgess’ Open Textbooks presentation to URegina (Video)
https://vimeo.com/96944921
A Faculty Perspective on Open Textbooks
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 these meetings to represent the “faculty perspective.” As much as I would love to do this, in my experience, there is no single faculty(…)