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Sponsored by the AVP, Educational Support and Innovation and BCcampus, the BCIT Open Education Working Group, the BCIT Library, and the Learning and Teaching Centre are providing small grants (up to $5,000) for the 2019/20 fiscal year to support the development of Open Education Resources (OER) including ancillary resources (test banks, case studies, slide decks, etc.), or the redesign of a course to incorporate OER and open educational practices (OEP).
The Open Education Working Group, the Library, and the LTC offer additional support to apply for the grants, plan and design your OER, find and adapt high-quality open educational resources, apply a Creative Commons license, and add newly created OER to the BCIT Open Repository.
Full and part-time instructors at BCIT and those working with educational resources development may receive an open education grant.
Apply by February 1, 2019, complete the work by March 31, 2020.
Three grants of up to $5,000 will be provided in the 2019/20 fiscal year. The intent of the grants is to enable instructors teaching courses at BCIT to receive support to create open educational resources, including ancillary resources (test banks, case studies, slide decks, etc.), or to redesign a course to incorporate open educational resources and open educational practices. Institutional support will be provided by the Open Education Working Group, the Library, and the LTC.
Open Education Sprint Grant Application Form
Interested in Open Educational Practices, but no time to develop an OER right now? Consider reviewing an Open Textbook: BCcampus offers $250 honorariums to faculty who review open textbooks from the BCcampus collection.
Name: Ken Licang
Program: Accounting
What attracted you to becoming a Peer Tutor?
Great for the resume!
How has working as a Tutor helped you?
I like tutoring because it gives me the opportunity to communicate with people. I also like the challenge that comes with it – solving problems collaboratively.
If you could give one piece of advice to a BCIT student what would it be?
Print out the lecture notes. It helps a lot to have a physical copy!
What would your dream job be when you leave BCIT?
The dream is to work in public accounting or in public service.
Jennifer Le – New Media Design and Web Development Practicum Student
Jennifer was based in MediaWorks and The Library where she used her digital skills to make promotional content to help advertise our services.
If you were in the library recently you may have seen her taking photographs, shooting video and time lapse footage, or you may have volunteered to pose in front of the camera for her. She produced a range of stock photographs and two videos that highlight what MediaWorks and The Library offer students and faculty.
Jennifer worked with MediaWorks and library staff closely to understand the requirements for her projects and went above and beyond to get the perfect shots and edits for us. She responded positively to all feedback and was been able to build upon her skill set to improve her shooting and editing techniques for future projects.
We are grateful for her hard work and were very pleased with the results. We wish her the best of luck in finding her first job in Toronto now that she has finished her course.
You can watch Jennifer’s work that she produced for BCIT Library and MediaWorks here:
The Any Book Book Club is meeting Thursday, January 10th.
We’re the easiest book club around – no required reading, just good conversation!
We’ll be talking about what we read over the break and what we want to read in the new year.
We’re here to help you keep your reading resolution!
Join us on January 10, from 12:30 – 1:30 at the black couches on the main floor of the Burnaby Campus Library.
New and lapsed members always welcome!
Books we discussed at our December book club meeting: