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• Pulling Together: A Guide for Curriculum Developers

  Author(s): Asma-na-hi Antoine, Rachel Mason, Roberta Mason, Sophia Palahicky, Carmen Rodriguez de France

  Updated: Oct 2, 2019

  Description: A Guide for Curriculum Developers is part of an open professional learning series developed for staff across post-secondary institutions in British Columbia. These guides are the result of the Indigenization Project, a collaboration between BCcampus and the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training. The project was supported by a steering committee of Indigenous education leaders from BC universities, colleges, and institutes, the First Nations Education Steering Committee, the Indige...[more]

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• Pulling Together: A Guide for Teachers and Instructors

  Author(s): Bruce Allan, Amy Perreault, John Chenoweth, Dianne Biin, Sharon Hobenshield, Todd Ormiston, Shirley Anne Hardman, Louise Lacerte, Lucas Wright, Justin Wilson

  Updated: Oct 2, 2019

  Description: A Guide for Teachers and Instructors is part of an open professional learning series developed for staff across post-secondary institutions in British Columbia. These guides are the result of the Indigenization Project, a collaboration between BCcampus and the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training. The project was supported by a steering committee of Indigenous education leaders from BC universities, colleges, and institutes, the First Nations Education Steering Committee, the Ind...[more]

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• Pulling Together: A Guide for Front-Line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors

  Author(s): Ian Cull, Robert L. A. Hancock, Stephanie McKeown, Michelle Pidgeon, Adrienne Vedan

  Updated: Oct 2, 2019

  Description: A Guide for Front-Line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors is part of an open professional learning series developed for staff across post-secondary institutions in British Columbia. These guides are the result of the Indigenization Project, a collaboration between BCcampus and the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training. The project was supported by a steering committee of Indigenous education leaders from BC universities, colleges, and institutes, the First Nations Education Ste...[more]

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• Faculty OER Toolkit

  Author(s): Shannon Moist, SFU

  Updated: Oct 1, 2019

  Description: The Faculty OER Toolkit is intended as an introductory guide for faculty interested in incorporating Open Educational Resources (OER) into their teaching practice. Beginning with a definition of OER, reasons to use OER, and online collections of OER to use, the Toolkit also covers basic information about adapting, adopting, and evaluating OER. Additionally, there is information about licensing and copyright, including an explanation of Creative Commons licenses and attribution statements. Throu...[more]

• OER Student Toolkit

  Author(s): Daniel Munro, UBC, Jenna Omassi, UBC, Brady Yano, SFU

  Updated: Oct 1, 2019

  Description: Student support and advocacy for OER is important to ensure that OER gain or continue to build momentum on campuses, bring together community members, and push for the adoption and creation of resources. This toolkit provides information on how interested student societies/associations as well as individual students can successfully advocate for greater OER adoption on campus. Primarily designed to serve post-secondary students in Canada working to support open education, we hope this toolkit w...[more]

• FLO Facilitation Guide: Facilitating Learning Online

  Author(s): Sylvia Currie, Sylvia Riessner, Gina Bennett, Beth Cougler Blom

  Updated: Oct 1, 2019

  Description: The FLO Facilitation Guide is a companion resource for the five facilitating learning online courses. It is designed to help individuals prepare and facilitate these courses as well as any courses that emphasize facilitating in a community of learners and supporting collaboration and reflective practice. The guide was written by experienced FLO facilitators and learning designers and includes exemplary contributions to the courses, instructions, ideas, materials, and facilitation tips and strat...[more]

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• Working Group Guide

  Author(s): Lucas Wright, Krista Lambert; BCcampus

  Updated: Oct 1, 2019

  Description: The Working Group Guide is a resource for librarians, staff, and faculty who support or are supporting open education at their institution and are starting or running an open working group. This resource contains three sections to help users establish, run, and sustain a working group, as well as a sprint toolkit for OER creation.

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• Pressbooks Guide

  Author(s): Lauri Aesoph, BCcampus

  Updated: Oct 1, 2019

  Description: This Pressbooks Guide does not replicate information provided by the Pressbooks Userguide published by Pressbooks.com. Instead, in parts and chapters laid out to mimic the steps an author might take to create or modify an open textbook in Pressbooks, it redirects readers to pertinent chapters in the Pressbooks Userguide, supplements it with additional information, and includes instructions specific to post-secondary faculty and staff working in British Columbia and the Yukon.

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• Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition

  Author(s): Amanda Coolidge and Josie Gray, BCcampus, Sue Doner, Camosun College, Tara Robertson, CAPER-BC

  Updated: Oct 1, 2019

  Description: The Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd edition is a collaboration between BCcampus, Camosun College, and CAPER-BC that includes updates and new material such as how to write an accessibility statement. The goal of the Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the resources needed so that each author, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant can create a truly open and accessible textbook. The original edition of the Accessibility Toolkit has been tra...[more]

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• Project Management

  Author(s): Adrienne Watt

  Updated: Sep 30, 2019

  Description: This book covers the basics of project management. This includes the process of initiation, planning, execution, control and close out that all projects share. This book has been adapted by the author as of August 15, 2014. The adaptation includes Canadianized content, PowerPoints, Audio Files, and Chapter Questions, which are located in the book's appendixes.

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