Forward now to the final Open Ed news email before the summer hit:  June 13th. Now, the links here are specific to Camosun College, but there are likely similar units where you can look for help at your own institutions – libraries, teaching and learning centres, copyright offices, etc.  So hopefully this will give you some idea of who to contact if you are looking for help and ideas.  So, here we go:

Hi everyone!

This will be the last Open Education email until August.  Everyone is slipping away for a well-deserved break (at least I hope most of you are) and I will be gone in July as well.  So, with that, I wanted to send a short email with some reminders of where to get help with Open Education at Camosun (questions, ideas, projects…you name it!)

First and foremost, if you are looking for Open Educational Resources (either in the strict sense of being Creative Commons licences or resources that are free for your students to use) contact your librarian.  Not sure who your subject area librarian is?  Here’s a handy list for you:

• Ask A Librarian (scroll to the bottom of the page for a list of all the subject liaison librarians and contact information.

Of course, you can contact any of the librarians for help – they are amazing!

Then, of course there are all of us in CETL: Instructional Designers, Educational Developers, etc.  We can help you look for OER, think about Open Pedagogy for assignments and activities, and just be a sounding board for your ideas and dreams.  Here is how you can get in touch with us:

• Contact CETL

And don’t forget our Copyright Advisor, especially when trying to figure out how you can integrate copyright materials into your course packs and D2L courses.

• Copyright Guide at Camosun

That’s all for today.  If there is anything you would like to me to think about for future emails, questions you have that others also might have, or subjects you would like to know more about, please let me know!!

And have a wonderful summer (I promise…it’s coming.)

Emily