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Open Education Grants at BCIT – Apply Now!!

March 2, 2018 by Richard Te Leave a Comment

Call for Grant Applications

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 2018/19 fiscal year to fund the development of Open Education Resources (OER) to integrate into your courses (may include open ancillary resources such as test banks, case studies, slide decks, etc.) or to redesign courses to incorporate open educational practices and open course materials.

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 licence (CC BY or CC BY-SA), and add newly created OER to the BCIT Open Repository.

How to apply for an Open Educational Resources Grant

  1. Review the information below, if you need more information, contact open@bcit.ca
  2. Submit the completed application form to open@bcit.ca (or click the submit button on the form)

Eligibility
Full and part-time instructors at BCIT may receive an open education grant.

Deadline
Apply by March 15, 2018, complete the work by March 31, 2019

Application
Two grants of up to $5,000 will be provided in the 2018/19 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.

Filed Under: Open Education, Uncategorized

Celebrating BCIT’s 2016/17 Open Grant Recipients

March 9, 2017 by Richard Te Leave a Comment

Tuesday, March 28, 12:30-1:30 in the Library (SE14), room 303

Filed Under: events, Open Education, Peers, Uncategorized

Read Local BC

October 21, 2016 by Richard Te Leave a Comment

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Read Local BC is a project to celebrate the extraordinary depth of BC publishing. The campaign features publishers, authors, bookstores and libraries from across the province.

To support this project, the BCIT Library is showcasing some open textbooks as well as BCIT authors from October 28 to November 7, 2016. Come check them out at the 2nd floor of the library.@ABPBC @bcit @bcitlib #readlocalbc

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Filed Under: Books, Community, events, online resources, Peers, Staff, Trends, Uncategorized

Spare Change Changing Lives

October 20, 2016 by Richard Te Leave a Comment

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Looking for something useful to do with the spare change cluttering up your pockets, school bag or vehicle? You can use that spare change to help make a difference by donating it to the Change Live with Change fundraiser! All proceeds will go towards the United Way of the Lower Mainland.

Simply drop your spare change in the collection bottle located at the library service desk. No amount is too small. Your contributions will go a long way in helping kids, families and seniors in our community have a better life.

Thank you for your support!

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BCIT students donating their spare change with a smile 🙂

Filed Under: Community, events, Peers, Staff, Trends, Uncategorized

OPEN IN ACTION – A free-ranging conversation

October 18, 2016 by Richard Te Leave a Comment

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Tuesday, October 25, 12-1
BCIT Burnaby Library, Learning Commons

Please join us to listen in on a free-ranging discussion of open education resources and practices.
Bring your lunch, we’ll provide coffee and tea.

Participants include:

open access poster-ALLCourtney Miller is an English major at SFU and regularly shares her opinions on issues close to the student body’s heart via SFU’s student-run newspaper, The Peak.
open access poster-ALLMatt Vickars is a textbook veteran in his 3rd year of Mechanical Engineering at BCIT with other post-secondary education prior to that.
open access poster-ALLFarhad Dastur is a KPU faculty member in the Department of Psychology. He is currently writing an open textbook on Critical Thinking
open access poster-ALLKen Jeffery is a Graphics Communication Technology Instructor at BCIT and an open textbook author.
open access poster-ALLJames Rout is BCIT’s Library Services Director.
open access poster-ALLRosario Passos is BCcampus’ Advisor for Open Education. She works with post-secondary institutions in BC to advocate for and advise on the use of OER and Open Textbooks to enhance teaching and learning
open access poster-ALLLin Brander is Collections Coordinator and Open Education Librarian at BCIT
open access poster-ALLYoudan Zhang is an Instructional Development Consultant at BCIT.

 

View event poster

For more Open Access events, check the BCCampus Calendar

Filed Under: Community, events, Professional Development, Seminars, Staff, Trends, Uncategorized

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