So, last time I posted the Camosun Open Ed News and Stuff email from April 19, 202, and now we move forward two weeks into May.  I am including a mash-up of the two May emails here because the first email had links to registrations for upcoming workshops, which are not relevant now.

Hi everyone!

I am tardy in my self-imposed bi-weekly Open Education News and Stuff email this week.  I am on SD and attending the Otessa  (Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association) conference which is part of Congress.  I’ve been hearing about some amazing projects in Open, many of them related to initiatives and experiences taking place since March 2020 (remember our own faculty stories?)  I will compile some of the resources from this conference for my next email in two weeks.

In the meantime, here are some things for you this week:

Awhile back, BCcampus announced its new adoption finder, which I may have shared with some of you already.  I wanted to bring it up again as it is an amazing spreadsheet resource which tells you what open textbooks other institution in BC are adopting, for which courses, and which courses in other institution are equivalent courses so you can see quickly if there is something that might be relevant to your own course you could look at right away.  Here is the announcement with a link to the spreadsheet in it: Announcing the Adoption Finder – BCcampus

A couple of articles/reports about use of OER at community colleges

• This article from Inside Higher Ed looks at a study on OER use at community colleges in the states: Teachers, students love OER, but officials not all on board (insidehighered.com)
• And this report Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources from an organization called Achieving the Dream, also related to OER use at community colleges